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Our PrioritiesAmplify Diverse Voices

Luce supports storytellers and stories that help to complicate or complete narratives and advance societal change.

What We DoWe support emerging and under-recognized thinkers as they seek to participate meaningfully in public conversation and public policy.

Too often, the public square is inaccessible to those without position, funding, or clout. However, we recognize that knowledge is produced in and by diverse organizations and communities, including many lacking the access necessary to reach a wider public–or to inform those who shape the policy agenda. We support those knowledge makers and help them to put what they know and discover to work.

Grantee Spotlight - Baltimore Museum of Art

“At the Baltimore Museum of Art, our agenda is to create stories of artistic excellence across all kinds of backgrounds and histories, to focus on a local artist who is really challenging the hierarchies of art and museum of the art world and the museum world in really profound ways that completely aligns with our mission and values, and it also is part of my vision to continue to uplift and give a platform to Baltimore artists, and there’s no one better to do that with than Joyce J Scott.

Joyce Scott is an artist who has been largely under-recognized throughout her lifetime. She is an octogenarian, she is still actively creating, she is a MacArthur Genius awardee. Why not recognize greatness while the artist is still alive? We as art historians and curators tend not to do that as much as we’d like.”

Asma Naeem, the Dorothy Wagner Wallace Director at the Baltimore Museum of Art

The Joyce J Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams exhibition is a 50 year retrospective about an artist who was born in Baltimore and has grappled with both local and global issues.

Decades of Grantmaking

We recognize that knowledge has the power to transform people, communities, and institutions–we can’t cultivate justice or a healthy democratic culture without it. That’s why we pour our resources into promoting ideas and information and boosting access to them.

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