The Falls Foundation · Expanding Culture. Rebalancing Memory.

Work from the Falls Foundation collection

The Falls Foundation expands cultural access by supporting artists and communities historically excluded from the resources that shape cultural memory, through funding, commissioning, and leadership development.

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Recent acquisitions

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Lotus L. Kang (b. 1985), Molt, 2025

Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum kelp knot, steel tubing

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Elizabeth Jaeger (b. 1988), What Was Left of Me Bloomed, 2026

Ceramic, bronze. 16 × 12 × 2.5 in

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Madeline Hollander, Auriga, February, 2025

Watercolor, colored pencil, archival watercolor paper mounted on wood panel, map pins. 16 × 20 in (41 × 51 cm)

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Mission

We build a more equitable and representative cultural future, through funding, commissioning, & leadership development.

The cultural sector is undergoing a shift. Institutions are reexamining whose narratives, histories, and artworks have been preserved, and whose have been systematically excluded. The gaps are measurable, persistent, and structural.

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85%

of artists in major U.S. museum collections are white; 87% are male.

“Diversity of Artists in Major U.S. Museums,” PLOS One (2019)