BOSTON, MASS.- Tufts University Art Galleries have received a $75,000 grant from Teiger Foundation. This grant will support the exhibition How do you throw a brick through the window..., co-organized with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC), on view September 2–November 9, 2025 at TUAG / Boston with a community-wide reception on September 4.
The funds granted by Teiger Foundation will enable TUAG to present new commissions and recent works of art from seven artists exploring how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces.
This grant will also support the creation of an accompanying publication expanding the histories and themes of the exhibition through essays by activists, scholars, artists, and poets, Amanda Cachia, torrin a. greathouse, Mev Luna, and the co curators.
Opening at TUAG / Boston September 2, 2025, and on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) March 14–October 4, 2026, How do you throw a brick through the window... is part of a multidisciplinary two-year research initative organized by TUAG and JMKAC that began in 2024.
The exhibition, co-curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin (TUAG) and Tanya Gayer (JMKAC), features the work of seven artists—Yani aviles, Chloe P. Crawford, Nat Decker, Jeff Kasper, Carly Mandel, Jeffrey Meris, and Libby Paloma—with graphic design from Emily Sara, who engage the radical questioning of Korean-American writer, artist, and musician Johanna Hedva: “How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?”
How do you throw a brick through the window... responds to calls for reconsideration of public streets as de facto sites for civic action and able-bodied action as the measure of protest. Participating artists offer works reimagining embodied dissent informed by disabled, sick, mad, and healing frameworks.
The generosity of Tegier Foundation will considerably impact TUAG’s ability to collaboratively realize this exhibition across two locations, allowing the Galleries to operate beyond and even against normative exhibition models through methods of “crip time” for elongated timelines, artist cohort cultivation, and programming. Such processes are catalytic for both institutions, providing roadmaps for accessible capital improvements at JMKAC and strengthened accessibility practices at TUAG.
“Curators play a critical role in shaping cultural narratives, we are proud to support this dynamic and diverse cohort of leaders,” said Larissa Harris, Executive Director of Teiger Foundation. “We’re excited to support an expanded range of curatorial voices across geography, experience, and institutional scale, underscoring our belief that critical, ambitious work is happening in every corner of the country. These new programs allow us to meet curators where they are, respond to the evolving needs of the field, and ensure that artists and communities have the thoughtful stewardship they deserve.”
TUAG is among 85 curators and 54 institutions across the United States to receive a grant as part of the Foundation’s Call for Proposals.
The grant program advances innovative curatorial practice in contemporary art, supporting projects beyond traditional art centers—from rural Mississippi and Appalachia to Hawai‘i and Puerto Rico—that engage with the environmental, political, and cultural contexts of their local communities.
This year, the Foundation awarded $7 million to US curators at organizations of all sizes to conduct research, mount exhibitions, and host touring shows, and curators at organizations with budgets of $3.5 million and below to realize three years of programming.
