Fellowships | Getty Research Institute, 2015–16
Getty Research Institute, 2015–2016: Art and Materiality
Applications due by 3 November 2014
The Getty Research Institute invites proposals for the 2015–2016 academic year residential grants and fellowships. The Getty Research Institute theme, “Art and Materiality,” aims to explore how the art object and its materiality have enhanced the study of art history. Scholars, working with conservators and scientists, are gaining insight into the process of art making from raw material to finished object, as well as the strategic deployment of materials both for their aesthetic qualities and for their power to signify. The Getty Research Institute seeks proposals from scholars and fellows on these and other issues related to the materiality of art.
Detailed application guidelines are available online.
More information about the theme is available here.
Fellowships | Winterthur Research Fellowships, 2015–16
Winterthur Research Fellowship Program, 2015–16
Wilmington, Delaware; applications due by 15 January 2015
Winterthur, a public museum, library, and garden supporting the advanced study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2015–16. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short- and long-term residential fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowships include 4–9 month NEH fellowships, 1–2 semester dissertation fellowships, and short-term fellowships, which are normally one month.
Fellows have full access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online. Resources for the 17th to the early 20th centuries include period trade catalogues, auction and exhibition catalogues, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts, printed books, and ephemera. Fellows may conduct object-based research in the museum’s collections, which include 90,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in the British American colonies or United States to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life. Winterthur also supports a program of scholarly publications, including Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture.
Fellows may reside in a furnished stone farmhouse on the Winterthur grounds and participate in the lively scholarly community at Winterthur, the nearby Hagley Museum and Library, the University of Delaware, and other area museums. Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2015. For more details and to apply, visit winterthur.org/fellowship or e-mail Rosemary Krill at rkrill@winterthur.org.
Research Grant | The Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant
From The Paul Mellon Centre:
The Andrew Wyld Research Grant for the Study of Works on Paper
Applications due by 15 September 2014
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art is delighted to announce that it will administer a new category of award from September 2014 on behalf of the Andrew Wyld Fund.
Andrew Wyld was a well-known and much respected London art dealer, specialising in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British watercolours. After his death in 2011, a group of friends and family decided to set up a fund in his memory; its aim is to enable students to do exactly as he did, namely to look at, and judge, works of art on paper for themselves. Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants of up to £2,000 will be offered annually to gradute, doctoral and undergraduate students (undertaking dissertation research) working in the field of British works of art on paper of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Grants may be used towards expenses incurred in visiting prints and drawings collections, galleries, museums, sale rooms and other institutions for the purpose of studying British works of art on paper.
More information is available here and at The Paul Mellon Centre.
Grant | Janet Arnold Award for the History of Western Dress
From the Society of Antiquaries of London:
Janet Arnold Award
In Support of Research into the History of Western Dress
Applications due by 15 January 2015
Janet Arnold (1932–98) was an artist, teacher and fashion designer. Her practical skills, together with a passion for accuracy, made her a powerful advocate for the study of historical dress as a serious discipline. The use of archival material and visual and literary records are important, but as she demonstrated in her own work, a real comprehension of historical dress depends on the close examination and understanding of surviving garments, both whole and fragmentary.
These grants are to further in-depth study of the history of Western dress. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they wish to pursue a particular piece of original research based on items of dress or their remains with a view to eventually disseminate the results through publication, display, cataloguing, teaching or through practical use in conservation or realistic reproduction. The award may be used for travel, accommodation and incidental expenses such as purchase of photographs. The usual amount of awards is between £350 and £2,000 awarded on an annual basis.
Eligibility
• This is not an grant for students.
• Grants will not be awarded for the salaries of those holding current appointments, but the cost of additional staff (e.g., a temporary research assistant for new projects) may be considered in exceptional cases, but only for named individuals.
• Grants will not be awarded to pay overheads.
• Grants will not be awarded for research that is part of work for a degree.
Additional information is available here»
Walpole Library Fellowships for 2014–15
The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the recipients of fellowship and travel grant awards for the 2014–2015 academic year:
F E L L O W S H I P S
• Sophie Coulombeau, University of York, John Trusler’s Memoirs
• Leigh-Michil George, UCLA, Comical Consciousness: Caricature and the Novel, 1726–1837
• Claire Grogan, Bishop’s University, The Role of Political Caricature in Britain during the 1790s
• Jordan Howell, University of Delaware, Book Abridgment in Eighteenth-Century England; Lewis Walpole Library and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Fellow
• Nicholas J.S. Knowles, Independent Scholar, A Catalogue Raisonné of Rowlandson’s Prints
• Cody Lass, Texas Tech University, Being British in America: The Seven Years War and Colonial Identity
• J. Vanessa Lyon, Grinnell College, Catholic Tastes: Religion, Foreignness, and the Birth of Gothic Visual Culture in England, 1715–1790; Roger W. Eddy Fellow
• Heather McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Speculum Mundi: Caricature and the Stage; LWL-ASECS Fellow
• Tim Pye, British Library, The Library of Thomas Tyrwhitt
• Matthew Sangster, British Library, Antiquarian Networks and the Meanings of Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Charles J. Cole Fellow
• Paris A. Spies-Gans, Princeton University, Creativity through Conflict: How Female Artists Navigated the Age of Revolution; George B. Cooper Fellow
• Edward Vallance, Roehampton University, Mark Noble, the Sentimental Loyalist
• Jane Wessel, University of Delaware, Property, Originality, and Performance: The Condition of Authorship on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
T R A V E L G R A N T S
• Colin B. Burke, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Information Challenges of the American Intelligence Agencies
• Silvia Davoli, Strawberry Hill House, Horace Walpole’s Collection at Strawberry Hill
• Thomas N. McGeary, Independent Scholar, Music and the Grand Tour
• Terry F. Robinson, University of Toronto, A History of Nobody: A Graphic and Literary Record of Being and Non-Being, 1700–1900
• David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, The Strawberry Hill Private Theatricals of 1800 and 1801
Fellowship | Bard Graduate Center
New research fellowship announced by the BGC:
Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowships
Applications due by 15 April 2014
The Bard Graduate Center invites applications for a new funded research fellowship program. Scholars from university, museum and independent backgrounds are invited to apply. Candidates must already have a PhD or equivalent professional experience. The fellowship is open to both collections-based research at the BGC or elsewhere in New York, and to writing or reading projects in which being part of the BGC’s dynamic research environment is intellectually valuable. The stipend rate is $3,500 per month and housing costs are assumed by the BGC. Both long- and short-term fellowships are available (for example, 6, 4, 2 or 1 month), with a one-month minimum. The timing of dates will be negotiated with individual awardees. Fellows would work in a Research Center alongside 12 other postdoctoral fellows.
The BGC is a graduate research institute devoted to study of the decorative arts, design history, and material culture, drawing on methodologies and approaches from art history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology. It offers MA and PhD degrees, possesses a specialized library of 60,000 volumes exclusive of serials, publishes West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture; Cultural Histories of the Material World (University of Michigan Press); and the catalogues which accompany the four exhibitions it presents every year in its Gallery space. Over 50 research seminars, lectures and symposia are scheduled annually and are livestreamed around the world on the BGC’s YouTube channel.
Applicants should send a detailed description of their project, explain why the BGC is an appropriate research affiliation, and indicate the preferred length of such a fellowship. Two letters of reference should be sent directly by the referees. All materials should be sent by April 15, 2014 to Research Fellowship Applications, attn: Elena Pinto Simon, Bard Graduate Center, 38 W. 86th Street, NY NY 10024. The fellowship year begins on or after September 1, 2014. Fellowships are awarded without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
Fellowship | 2015 NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship
2015 NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship
Applications due 15 November 2014
The NACBS, in collaboration with the Huntington Library, offers annually the NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship to aid in dissertation research in British Studies using the collections of the library. The amount of the fellowship is $3000. A requirement for holding the fellowship is that the time of tenure be spent in residence at the Huntington Library. The time of residence varies but may be as brief as one month. Applicants must be U. S. or Canadian citizens or permanent residents and enrolled in a Ph.D. program in a U.S. or Canadian institution.
Nominations and applications for the 2015 award are invited. Please note that the applications are due on November 15, 2014. Applications should consist of a curriculum vitae, two supporting letters (one from the applicant’s dissertation advisor), and a description of the dissertation research project. The letter should include a description of the materials to be consulted at the Huntington and the reason that these are essential sources for the dissertation. (more…)
Fellowships | American Art and Visual Culture at the Smithsonian
Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Fellowships
Washington, D.C.
Applications due by 15 January 2014
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in art and visual culture of the United States. A variety of predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior fellowships are available. Fellowships are residential and support independent and dissertation research. The stipend for a one-year fellowship is $30,000 for predoctoral fellows or $45,000 for senior and postdoctoral fellows, plus generous research and travel allowances. The standard term of residency is twelve months, but terms as short as three months will be considered; stipends are prorated for periods of less than twelve months. Deadline: January 15, 2014. Contact: Amelia Goerlitz, Fellowship Office, American Art Museum, AmericanArtFellowships@si.edu. For more information and a link to the online application for the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, please visit our website. Applicants should propose a primary advisor from the Smithsonian American Art Museum to be eligible for a fellowship at this unit.
2014 Terra Foundation Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2014 Terra Foundation Academic Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
A wide range of Terra Foundation academic awards, fellowships, and grants help scholars realize their academic and professional goals and support the worldwide study and presentation of the art of the United States.
The deadline for all academic award, fellowship, and grant applications is January 15, 2014 unless otherwise indicated.
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Travel Grants to the United States
International Essay Prize for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellowships in Washington, D.C.
Terra Summer Residency Fellowships in Giverny, France
2013–14 Fellows at the YCBA and the Beinecke Library
A selection of 2014 Visiting Scholars at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven:
January 6 – January 31
Robert Wellington is an independent researcher and a casual academic in the Department of Art History and Film at the University of Sydney. He will pursue research for a project entitled “A War of Visual Histories: British Appropriations of French Triumphal Imagery at Marlborough House.” This project will provide the first in-depth account of Louis Laguerre’s cycle of paintings at Marlborough House, London, depicting the victories of the Duke of Marlborough against the French in the War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714). Wellington’s research will involve an examination of prints and other material in the Center’s collections relating to Laguerre’s cycle.
February 3 – February 28
Henrietta McBurney Ryan is the Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art at Eton College. Her book project, Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby, will present Catesby’s work as pioneering in a number of ways, including how it represents one of the last great pre-Linnaean enterprises. Among other things, this project will make extensive use of the Center’s unique collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century drawing manuals and related treatises in order to further a discussion of Catesby’s techniques as an artist and his place in the history of natural history illustrators.
April 7 – May 2
Alexis Cohen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She will conduct research for a dissertation entitled “Lines of Utility: Outlines, Architecture, and Design in Britain, c. 1800.” Cohen’s project studies the proliferation of the outline drawing in British architectural and design publications and explores how neoclassical design discourses were shaped by notions of utility advanced in publications that privileged the outline drawing as a graphic idiom. Materials to be consulted include the Center’s rich collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architectural drawings by Robert Adam, C. R. Cockerell, A. W. N. Pugin, George Richardson, and James Wyatt, among others.
May 5 – June 27
Katelyn Crawford is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture, McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. She will pursue research for her dissertation, “Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1750–1780.” Crawford’s project examines paintings by portraitists working within the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world in order to demonstrate the impact of mobility on artistic practice and portraiture on identity construction. Materials to be consulted at the Center include paintings, drawings, and prints by marine artists and portraitists whose practices further illuminate the connections between these genres and the culture of artistic mobility in the British Atlantic. The Center’s Rare Books and Manuscripts collection will also be explored for mention of itinerant portraitists in Britain and the Atlantic, and discussions of travel, mobility, and portrait production.
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A selection 2013–2014 Visiting Fellows at the Beinecke Library:
Thierry Rigogne (Fordham University), French Cafes in the Eyes of British Travelers, 1660–1800
Kathleen Lubey (St. John’s University), Marginal Conversations: Form and Feminism in Eighteenth-Century Textual Culture
Kevin Bourque (Southwestern University), Seriality, Singularity and Celebrity: Pictures in Motion from 1680 to 1810
Katherine Hunt (Birkbeck College, University of London), Shuffled Knowledge: Didactic Playing Cards in Early Modern Britain
Rupert Goulding (The National Trust, United Kingdom), William Blathwayt’s Acquisition of Goods and Materials from the Colonies for Use in Building and Furnishing Dyrham Park during the Late Seventeenth Century
Diana Barnes (University of Western Australia), The Politics of Emotion and Stoicism in the Writings of William Temple
Margaret Dalivalle, Osborn MS fb122 “Cooper Drawings”: A Technical Examination and Identification of the Models for an Important Group of Seventeenth-Century English Traced Drawings Deriving from the Studio of Richard Gibson, Miniaturist
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