Two CAA Publishing Grants
From CAA News (13 June 2011) . . .
CAA is offering two publishing-grant opportunities this fall—through the Millard Meiss Publication Fund and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant—that support new books in art history and related subjects. The publisher must submit the application to either grant or to both funds, though only one award can be given per title. Awards are made at the discretion of each jury and vary according to merit, need, and number of applications. Both programs have a deadline of October 1, 2011. CAA will announce the recipients of the Meiss and Wyeth grants in late November or early December 2011.
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Millard Meiss Publication Fund
CAA awards grants from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. For complete guidelines, application forms, and a grant description, please visit www.collegeart.org/meiss or write to publications@collegeart.org. Deadline: October 1, 2011.
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant
Thanks to generous funding from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, CAA awards a publication grant to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art and related subjects. For purposes of this program, “American art” is defined as art created in the United States, Canada, and Mexico prior to 1970. Books eligible for the Wyeth Grant have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. For complete guidelines, application forms, and a grant description, please visit www.collegeart.org/wyeth or write to publications@collegeart.org. Deadline: October 1, 2011.
Enfilade Turns Two!
An 18th-century balloon takes off (Library of Congress); illustration from Jane E. Boyd, "Artificial Clouds and Inflammable Air: The Science and Spectacle of the First Balloon Flights, 1783," 'Chemical Heritage Magazine' (Summer 2009); click to access the article.
After two years and 123,595 hits, I continue to be amazed at how much more the site has become than I ever initially imagined. Thanks to all of you for your kind input, your generosity in sharing news, and above all for your support in reading. To mark the anniversary, I want to make two plugs: one a familiar refrain, the other an announcement regarding the launch of an internship program.
First, if you’re a regular reader, please consider making a financial contribution to the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture. Enfilade is produced at absolutely zero costs to HECAA, but the organization needs financial resources to pursue its mission, an important part of which includes modest grants for graduate students. Anyone interested in the period is welcome to become a member; so if you’re reading, consider joining. For current members, now is a good time to send in your dues for 2011 if you’ve not yet done so (just $20/$5 for graduate students). Please also think about making an additional donation to help fund the Dora Wiebenson Prize or the Mary Vidal Memorial Fund. Checks should be sent directly to Denise Baxter (the transition to our new treasurer Jennifer Germann will occur soon, but for now Denise is still glad to cash your checks).
Second, I’m pleased to announce that Enfilade is now accepting applications for a new student internship program. The intern positions are intended to provide art historical experience for M.A. students in Art History, Architectural History, Museum Studies, or other related disciplines (exceptional upper-level undergraduates will also be considered). Duties will primarily consist of researching potential postings, gathering information about upcoming exhibitions, conferences, forthcoming books, &c. Depending upon an intern’s interests, expertise, and location, other projects are also possible. Starting dates are flexible. The internship runs for 8 weeks with the possibility of an extension. Students are expected to work a minimum of 5 hours per week. The position is unpaid, though it will include a one-year HECAA membership. Given the nature of the work, the internship can be completed from anywhere. Requirements:
- Basic computer skills with online access
- A minimum of five art history courses
- Strong writing skills
- Fluency in English, though additional languages are certainly advantageous
Application materials:
- Cover letter explaining the applicant’s interests, skills, and plans for the near future
- C.V.
- Writing sample of 3-5 pages
Applications should be sent to CraigAshleyHanson@gmail.com
As with everything with Enfilade, the internship program is an experiment. We’ll see how it goes and adjust accordingly. By all means feel free to send your own ideas, thoughts, and concerns. And again, thanks for reading! -CH.
Open Position: ‘Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Editor
ASECS is seeking a new editor and a new home for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Published quarterly by the Johns Hopkins University Press for ASECS, the journal is dedicated to maintaining and developing the Society’s special mission of interdisciplinarity and publishing the best in eighteenth-century scholarship. The Society will also accept applications from a team of two (and no more than three) editors at the same institution but representing different disciplines. The new editor will begin his/her duties for a five year term effective July 1, 2012.
Eighteenth-Century Studies is an endowed journal and the Society contributes to its support. The journal’s Editor can also rely on the support of an excellent team of book review editors, editorial board, and advisory editors.
Candidates should submit a letter of application describing their interest in and plans for the journal, together with a curriculum vitae for each prospective editor. In addition, the application should include a statement signed by the appropriate institutional officer pledging support for the journal for a term of at least five years. Institutional support shall include space, utilities, custodial services, release time for the editor(s), half-time secretarial support, and one-half the salary and benefits of a full-time managing editor who will, in addition to other duties, work with the Executive Director’s staff in securing and producing advertising revenue. It would be desirable if the host institution would also provide computer equipment and support facilities. The application deadline is November 15, 2011. The Search Committee has been asked to complete its work by February 17, 2012 so that the new editors can be announced at the annual meeting in San Antonio. Members are strongly encouraged to send to the Search Committee their comments on the direction they would like to see Eighteenth-Century Studies take in the future. Please send all applications materials, inquiries, nominations, and comments to the ASECS Business Office at asecs@wfu.edu.
Finally, the officers and Executive Board of ASECS wish to thank Julia Simon for her outstanding service as editor of ECS, and wish her the best of luck on her retirement from the journal.
20 Grants for Traveling to 2012 CAA in Los Angeles
Given that many of Enfilade’s readers are not based in the U.S., this announcement may be useful, especially for readers “from developing countries or from nations not well represented in CAA’s membership.” It would be nice to see a scholar of the eighteenth century among the recipients, and we would love to see you at the HECAA events. From CAA News:
The Getty Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to CAA in support of international travel for twenty applicants to attend the 100th Annual Conference and Centennial Celebration, taking place February 22–25, 2012, in Los Angeles. Through the new Getty Foundation Travel Grant Program, CAA will provide funds for travel expenses, hotel accommodations, per diems, and conference registrations. Recipients will also receive one-year CAA memberships. Applicants may be art historians, artists who teach art history, and art historians who are museum curators; those from developing countries or from nations not well represented in CAA’s membership are especially encouraged to apply.
The goal of the project is to increase international participation in CAA and to diversify the organization’s membership (presently sixty-five countries are represented). CAA also wishes to familiarize international participants with the submission process for conference sessions and to expand their professional network in the visual arts. Members of CAA’s International Committee have agreed to host the participants, and the National Committee for the History of Art will also lend support to the program.
CAA will publish an official call for grant applications on its website on Friday, July 8, 2011; the program will also be publicized in CAA News. A jury will select the twenty grant recipients.
Job Listing: Chief Curator for the Columbia Museum of Art, SC
The Columbia Museum of Art has a wonderful Kress collection of Renaissance art but also some excellent examples of eighteenth-century painting, including works by Canaletto, Guardi, Sebastiano Ricci, Crespi, Boucher, Nattier, Romney and Reynolds, as well as decorative arts, including Meissenware, Wedgwood, and furniture objects.
Employment Opportunity: Chief Curator
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
The Columbia Museum of Art is the premier international art museum in South Carolina with a commitment to exhibiting art from around the world. The collection ranges from antiquity to the present day with a focus on European, American, modern and contemporary, and Asian art. A large gift from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation formed the nucleus of an important permanent collection of more than 6,000 objects of fine and decorative arts across a broad range of centuries and media. The Museum is in a modern 128,000 square foot facility that opened in 1998 and is a captivating architectural building with 25 galleries, designed by George Sexton Associates of Washington, D.C., with art studios, a 160-seat auditorium, a library, and museum shop. Significant undeveloped space is earmarked for future gallery expansion. The Museum has an annual budget of $3.7 million and a full-time staff of 32. It serves as the cultural anchor of a newly revitalized downtown – blocks from the State Capitol and the historic campus of the University of South Carolina. Columbia is South Carolina’s largest city and the center of culture, government, education, and commerce. It is centrally located and within a two-hour drive of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the beaches and historic sites of Charleston and coastal South Carolina.
The Columbia Museum of Art seeks a creative and energetic professional for the position of Chief Curator to direct a dynamic and diverse exhibition program and to further develop the depth and quality of the permanent collection. The chief curator plays a leadership role in shaping the department’s vision and philosophy and should have a successful record of exhibition and collection development and strong contacts with colleagues, scholars, collectors, and dealers. The ideal candidate will be able to take the museum to the next level in terms of quality exhibitions, audience engagement, and status in the museum community. This position reports to the Executive Director and is an integral member of the senior management team. The person supervises five full-time staff members. The Chief Curator organizes special exhibitions; monitors the safety and proper care of the collections; leads the curatorial team in the planning of temporary and permanent gallery exhibitions and installations; participates in fundraising endeavors; recommends acquisitions to the Director and Collections Committee; cultivates museum donors; and participates in education programs. This position must also work collaboratively with other departments in the development of museum-wide projects. The successful candidate will thrive in a team atmosphere, is a ‘people person,’ and can easily communicate and build excellent relationships with a variety of people, including staff, donors, artists, volunteers, and the general public. (more…)
Art History Post-Doc in Hong Kong
From The University of Hong Kong:
Two-Year Research Post-Doc at The University of Hong Kong
Applications due by 18 April 2011
Founded in 1911, The University of Hong Kong is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in teaching and research, and has been at the international forefront of academic scholarship for many years. Ranked 21st among the top 200 universities in the world by the UK’s Times Higher Education, the University has a comprehensive range of study programmes and research disciplines spread across 10 faculties and about 100 sub-divisions of studies and learning. There are over 23,400 undergraduate and postgraduate students coming from 50 countries, and more than 1,200 members of academic and academic-related staff, many of whom are internationally renowned.
The Society of Scholars in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong is a society of young scholars involved in cutting-edge research. It is designed to encourage critical and creative thought both within and between the disciplines in the Arts and Humanities. There are two research Scholarships for 2011: one in Art History and one in History.
Each Scholarship is for two years and is non-renewable. Applicants are invited from all educational institutions across the world. The Scholarships are intended for researchers early in their careers to carry out innovative research. Candidates are expected to be either graduate students in the final stages of their Ph.D. studies, or researchers who have been awarded their Ph.D. degree for not more than two years from the date of application. Details about the Society and FAQs are available at: http://www.soh.hku.hk/scholars/2011/index.html.
Scholars will be provided with free accommodation, office space, airfares for overseas candidates, a research grant of up to HK$14,000 a year, and a stipend of HK$22,000 per month. (Scholars who have not yet been awarded a Ph.D. degree will receive a salary of HK$18,000 per month.) Successful candidates will be appointed as Research Scholar. (more…)
American Print Culture Summer Seminar
From the American Antiquarian Society:
Encountering Revolution: Print Culture, Politics, and the British American Loyalists
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 13-17 June 2011
Applications due by 11 March 2011
What happens to the dominant critical models in Revolutionary history-those that govern the way we conceptualize the meanings of print, the nature of authorship, the rhetorical forms of expression, and the very notion of “public” culture-when we reinsert the Loyalist presence into Revolutionary American Studies? The 2011 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture will employ transatlantic methods and contexts as a way of challenging the field’s reliance on nationalist models of literary and cultural history that rest upon the political history of the formation and development of the United States. This seminar will interrogate the “Americanness” of American political writing to articulate generic and thematic continuities between British and British American writing and printing. By accounting for Loyalist writing in a revisionary history of Revolutionary print culture-through an examination of Loyalist printers and distribution networks as well as of efforts to censor Loyalist publications-we also hope the seminar will interrogate current models of the “public sphere” and of the historical/theoretical models informing public and private life in late eighteenth-century British America. Our goal is to consider the multiple, transatlantic audiences that Loyalist writing imagines for itself-and the larger issues about British American identity and identification that such imagined communities of readers raise for us today. The seminar will be led by Philip Gould (Professor of English, Brown University) and Ed Larkin (Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware). Details about the seminar and application forms are available at the AAS website. Limited amounts of financial aid are available for graduate student applicants.
Visiting Scholar Program, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The John ‘Bud’ Velde Visiting Scholar Program
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Applications due by 1 April 2011
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is the University’s principal repository of early printing, rare editions, and manuscripts. Since 2006, the Velde Visiting Scholar program has provided financial support to researchers unaffiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who wish to further compelling projects utilizing these renowned collections. A gift of the estate of John E. “Bud” Velde, Jr. (1917-2002), a longtime friend of the Library and its rare book collections, funds the award. Among Velde’s many contributions to the Library are the Library’s seven-millionth volume, the 1486 edition of Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land) in 1986, and the eight-millionth volume, Frank Lloyd Wright’s The House Beautiful (1896/97). He also made a considerable contribution to the Audubon Folio Restoration Project in 1987 and established a generous endowment fund in 1999.
The research strengths of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library are manifold. Comprehensive collections support studies in printing and printing history, Renaissance studies, Elizabethan and Stuart life and letters, John Milton and his age, emblem studies, economic history, and works on early science and natural history. The library also houses the papers of the modern literary figures Carl Sandburg, H.G. Wells, William Maxwell, and W.S. Merwin.
Two John “Bud” Velde awards are given annually to facilitate a period of extended individual study (usually one month or more) in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The program is open to all scholars, from graduate students to retired professors and independent researchers, regardless of nationality. The awards are primarily intended to help defray the costs of travel and living expenses for scholars from outside the region. Each award consists of a stipend of $3,000. Recipients are responsible for making their own travel and housing arrangements, though information about campus housing will be provided. (more…)
Attingham Applications Due Soon
The Attingham Trust for the Study of Historic Houses and Collections — 2011 Courses
Summer School 2010 at Chatsworth (Photo: Rebecca Parker)
The Attingham Trust is an educational charitable trust offering specialised study courses for people professionally engaged in the field of historic houses, their collections and settings including the history and contents of English Royal Palaces. Since its foundation in 1952 it has enjoyed success with its high academic standards. The courses are highly regarded by museums, universities, heritage bodies, architectural practices and conservation workshops all over the world as an excellent opportunity for career and continuing professional development.
The 60th Attingham Summer School
1–19 July 2011
Directed by Lisa White and Dr Helen Jacobsen, and accompanied by specialist tutors and lecturers, this intensive 18-day course will include visits to approximately 25 houses in Sussex, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire. The Summer School will examine the country house in terms of architectural and social history, and the decorative arts. Full and partial scholarships are available and applications are invited from those working in related fields. Closing date for applications: 31st January 2011.
Royal Collection Studies
4–13 September 2011
Run on behalf of the Royal Collection Trust, this strenuous 10-day course based near Windsor is directed by Giles Waterfield. The school will visit royal palaces in and around London with specialist tutors (many from the Royal Collection) and study the extensive patronage and collecting of the royal family from the Middle Ages. The course is open to all but priority will be given to those with a professional or specialist knowledge of British architecture, history or the fine and decorative arts. Some scholarship assistance is available.
Closing date for applications: 15th February 2011.
The Attingham Study Programme, Glasgow and the West of Scotland
17–25 September 2011
This intensive 9-day programme directed by Giles Waterfield will be based in Glasgow and West Scotland and will examine the Scottish house. It will include visits to Dumfries House, Drumlanrig Castle, Mount Stuart, The Hill House, Helensburgh and Pollok House, Glasgow. Some scholarship assistance is available and applications are invited from those employed or seriously interested in architecture and the fine and decorative arts. Closing date for applications: 28th February 2011.
For further information please visit our website: www.attinghamtrust.org or email Rebecca Parker: attinghamtrust@btinternet.com or Mayuri Amuluru: attingham@verizon.net for applicants from the USA.
HBA Publication Grant
Historians of British Art 2010 Publication Grant
Due by 31 January 2011
The Historians of British Art (HBA) invites applications for its 2011 publication grant. The society will award up to $500 to offset publication costs of, or to support additional research for, a journal article or book manuscript in the field of British visual culture that has been accepted by a publisher. Applicants must be current members of HBA. To apply, send a 500-word project description, publication information (name of journal or press and projected publication date), budget, and CV to Renate Dohmen, HBA Prize Committee chair.
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