Morgan Library & Museum Fellowships
From The Morgan Library & Museum:
The Morgan Library & Museum is offering four fellowships for pre- and post-doctoral students. Applications must be submitted by 31 December 2024.
1 Drawing Institute Predoctoral Research Fellowship, 2025–26
The Morgan Drawing Institute will award one nine-month Predoctoral Research Fellowship to an advanced-level graduate student who has completed all course work and exams. The student should be currently engaged in carrying out research leading to the completion of a doctoral dissertation in the history of art, a significant component of which pertains to the history, theory, collecting, function, or interpretation of drawings. The stipend is $4000/month for 9 months, September/October 2025–May/June 2026, plus a $2000 travel allowance intended to support or subsidize a short research trip.
2 Drawing Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2025–26
The Morgan Drawing Institute will award one nine-month Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to a scholar in the first decade of their career following the completion of the Ph.D. or equivalent advanced degree. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship supports an independent research project, ideally working toward a clearly defined publication relating to some aspect of the history, theory, collecting, function, or interpretation of drawings. The stipend is $4850/month for 9 months, generally expected to run between September/October 2025 – May/June 2026, plus a $2000 travel allowance intended to support or subsidize a short research trip. If a fellowship is sought for a specific time (e.g. around a professor’s semester-long sabbatical), that should be clearly indicated in the application.
3 Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellowships
The Morgan Library & Museum seeks applications for the Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellowship, a two-year curatorial fellowship to be awarded to two promising scholars with experiences and perspectives that have not been adequately reflected in the curatorial and special collections fields. Named for the Morgan’s first director, one of the most prominent American librarians and cultural leaders of the first half of the twentieth century and a woman of African-American descent, this full-time program will equip the Fellows with a strong working knowledge of museum and special collections library operations and provides the Fellows with resources and mentorship to further a professional career in libraries, archives, or museums. The Morgan seeks candidates who are interested in working on specific projects as outlined on the museum’s website. The program will provide the Fellows with experience in a variety of core curatorial activities, such as exhibition and publications planning, research on the collection and on potential acquisitions, the creation of public programs, and donor relations. The Fellows will also have the opportunity to propose and curate an installation or small exhibition in the museum. The salary is $52,000 annually; excellent benefits. Fellows will also have a travel budget of $2000 per year for research and for activities supporting their professional development, such as attendance at a conference.
4 Shelby White & Leon Levy Fellowship in Manuscript Cataloging
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the Shelby White & Leon Levy Fellowship in Manuscript Cataloging. The Fellowship is intended for new professionals who have demonstrated engagement with general cataloging or archival processing and wish to enhance their skills through intensive specialized training. This is a unique opportunity for early-career professionals to receive training and mentoring as members of the Morgan Library & Museum curatorial and cataloging staff. Starting in February 2025, the Fellowship will consist of 650 hours, and applicants will have a choice between full-time (35 hours per week) or part-time (21 hours per week) work in order to complete the 650 hours. Fellows will be assigned to work on specific groups of 19th- or 20th-century correspondence. They will be expected to research the historical and cultural context in which the letters and documents were produced, create collection and item level records in CORSAIR—the Morgan’s collections database—according to DCRM(MSS), assign accession numbers, and attend to the rehousing and conservation needs of the material. Considerations will be given to applicants’ areas of experience or expertise, such as specific language skills or subject specialization in art, literature, history, film, history of science, etc.
Preservation Long Island Receives Curatorial Internship Grant
From the press release (18 November 2024). . .
High chest of drawers, Queens County, New York, 1740–70, walnut, tulip poplar, pine (Preservation Long Island purchase, 1961.13.1).
The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that Preservation Long Island (PLI) is the recipient of the 2025–27 Curatorial Internship Grant. Headquartered in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, PLI was founded in 1948 as the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. PLI advances the importance of historic preservation in the region through advocacy, education, and stewardship. Their program areas include interpreting historic sites, collecting art and material culture pertaining to Long Island history, creating publications and exhibitions, and providing direct support and technical assistance to individuals and groups engaged in local preservation efforts.
In 2026, PLI will celebrate the United States Semiquincentennial as well as the 50th anniversary of their landmark furniture publication, Long Island is My Nation: The Decorative Arts and Craftsmen, 1640–1830. PLI’s Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Fellow will collaborate with Chief Curator & Director of Collections Lauren Brincat on a series of objectives aimed at cataloging Long Island furniture in public and private collections across the region, reexamining these objects from new perspectives, and enhancing their accessibility to 21st-century researchers and the public. The Fellow will take a leading role in a new initiative building upon previous scholarship towards the creation of a collaborative Long Island furniture digital database, an exhibition, and an accompanying catalogue. Also, the Fellow will coordinate and participate in a Long Island furniture symposium in summer 2025. PLI will post the Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Fellow position on their website at preservationlongisland.org in spring 2025. For more information about Curatorial Internship Grants, visit decorativeartstrust.org/cig.
Attingham Courses in 2025
Daniel Zuloaga y Bonetta, El Salón Gasparini del Palacio Real de Madrid, 1875, oil on canvas, 58 × 72cm
(Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, P006884)
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Attingham offerings for 2025:
London House Course
Led by David Adshead, 1–7 April 2025
Applications due by 17 January 2025
This seven-day non-residential course studies the development of the London house from the Renaissance to the present. It combines numerous visits to houses, many of them private, with a series of lectures by leading authorities. Progressing broadly chronologically and exploring all over London, the course takes members inside grand aristocratic buildings, smaller domestic houses, artists’ studios, and the garden suburb.
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The 72nd Summer School
Led by Tessa Wild and David Adshead, 28 June — 13 July 2025
Applications due by 31 January 2025
This intensive 16-day residential course will include visits to country houses in Sussex, Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, and Lincolnshire. Accompanied by specialist tutors and lecturers, the Summer School will examine the country house in terms of architectural and social history, focus on the collections of fine and decorative arts with close-up in-depth study, and encourage discussion on topical issues of conservation and interpretation.
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Royal Collections Studies
Led by Helen Jacobsen, 31 August — 9 September 2025
Applications due by 14 February 2025
Run on behalf of The Royal Collection Trust, this ten-day residential course offers participants the opportunity to study the magnificent holdings of paintings, decorative art, jewelry, books, and arms and armor in the Royal Collection and to examine the architecture and interiors of the palaces that house them. Based near Windsor, the course will also examine the history of the collection and the key roles played by monarchs and their consorts over the centuries.
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New Perspectives in Country House Studies
Led by Elizabeth Jamieson, 21–25 September 2025
Applications due by 14 February 2025
Based in Yorkshire, this intensive five-day themed, residential course will focus on a series of fresh perspectives that are currently informing country house studies, including the global and colonial contexts of objects; craftspeople, and makers, both then and now; women as patrons, as collectors and as instigators of change in the country house; how the buildings were lived and worked in, and how they reflect both the lives of their occupants and wider social change.
N.B. This short course is intended for anyone who has a professional or academic interest in the arts and heritage. The Attingham Trust welcomes all applications, including those at the early stages of their career, in the process of completing their academic studies, and from backgrounds under-represented in these fields.
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The Study Programme: From Granada to Madrid
Led by Annabel Westman and Helen Jacobsen, 12–18 October 2025
Applications due by 14 February 2025
This intensive seven-day residential course to Spain will begin at the Alhambra palace complex in Granada, renowned for its architectural and decorative beauty. The programme will continue to Madrid, where a mix of architecture, interiors, and works of art will be studied, with a focus on the exceptional decorative arts in Spanish royal and aristocratic collections. Visits are planned to palaces, private houses, and gardens and—as with all Attingham courses—the course will be supported by local curators and experts and will include visits with privileged access.
IDEAL Internship Grants from Decorative Arts Trust
Family Room at Filoli, Woodside California
(Photo by Jeff Bartee)
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From the press release (28 October 2024) . . .
The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to announce the six institutions that received IDEAL Internship Grants for 2025: the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina; Bard Graduate Center in New York City; The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Filoli in Woodside, California; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; and the Liberty Hall Historic Site in Frankfort, Kentucky.
The IDEAL Internship Grants program was established in 2020 to create opportunities for undergraduate students of color through collaborations that create meaningful introductions to the museum field and introduce new perspectives and voices to curatorial practice. Since its founding, the program has supported 16 interns.
Once the Asheville Art Museum reopens following the damage brought by Hurricane Helene, the curatorial department will host two undergraduate interns to assist with the development and educational programming for two upcoming exhibitions.
Liberty Hall, Frankfort, Kentucky, built in 1796 (Photo by Christopher Riley, Wikimedia Commons, November 2018).
Bard Graduate Center will create an internship within their Marketing, Communications, and Design department, specifically for Pratt Institute’s Undergraduate Communications Design program. The intern will work closely with staff on exhibition design, catalog production, and institutional branding.
The Clay Studio, in Philadelphia, will hire an intern who will gain valuable experience working with both physical and digital archival systems, the documentation of artworks, and exhibition planning and implementation.
Filoli, a Georgian Revival estate turned museum in Woodside, California, will host a Collections Intern to gain tangible and meaningful experience in preservation, cataloging, photography, and database management.
As the High Museum of Art in Atlanta approaches its centennial anniversary in 2026, the curatorial team will welcome an intern to assist with the reinstallation of American art galleries and conduct research on objects in the permanent collection.
Liberty Hall Historic Site in Frankfort, Kentucky, will host an intern to study the Black experience at two houses owned by the prominent Brown family, specifically regarding the buildings’ construction, urban enslavement, emancipation, and Reconstruction.
For updates about applying for these internship opportunities, visit the institutions’ websites and follow them on social media. The IDEAL Internship Program is part of the Decorative Arts Trust’s Emerging Scholars Program. For upcoming grant application deadlines, visit decorativeartstrust.org or email thetrust@decorativeartstrust.org.
Call for Applications | Seminar in Curating Prints
From ArtHist.net and Print Quarterly:
Seminar in Curating Prints
London and Paris, 12–27 March 2025 (9 days)
Applications due by 18 September 2024
Print Quarterly invites applications for a program dedicated to prints connoisseurship and curatorial practice, spanning from printmaking techniques to innovative strategies of display and public engagement in a museum context. The program will take place over approximately nine days in London and Paris in the period 12–27 March 2025, with exact dates to be confirmed in October 2024. Most sessions will be held in museum print rooms, but insights into commercial print publishing, current printmaking, and the art market will also be provided. The program will be led by the editor of Print Quarterly, Rhoda Eitel-Porter, with the contributions of international senior experts.
The program is tailored to early and mid-career curators with responsibility for prints and works on paper seeking professional development. Applications from scholars involved with print curating or advanced graduate students pursuing a thesis on a print-related topic will also be considered. A maximum of ten participants will be admitted to the program. The seminars will allow participants to strengthen their knowledge of and familiarity with prints across media and contexts, while exploring new fields and methods, including non-Western traditions. Besides furthering their knowledge of the subject, the seminar will also stimulate the participants to think differently and further on how to manage, display, and deploy their collections for the benefit of the public. Furthermore, through exposure to other museum curators and managers at the host venues and selected experts, participants will develop their network within the community of print scholars. The working language is English. Participants will be asked to prepare one or two short presentations of five to ten minutes on selected topics.
Travel, accommodation, and meal expenses will be covered by the program. The program is supported by The Getty Foundation, as part of The Paper Project: Prints and Drawings Curatorship in the 21st Century.
Applications with the following (as PDF files) should be emailed to curating@printquarterly.co.uk by 18 September 2024.
• A brief letter of intent of no more than one page summarizing your interest in the program. The letter should describe your current responsibilities and work, your future hopes and ambitions, and an explanation of how participation in the program might help you achieve your goals. It should also include your thoughts about what you would hope to see covered in the program and wish to learn from it.
• A curriculum vitae that includes your name, title, current position (and whether this is part- or full-time), affiliation, email address, residential address, nationality/citizenship, languages spoken, education, publications, and name and contact details of two references.
Participants will be selected and notified by late October 2024. Questions about the program may be directed to curating@printquarterly.co.uk.
Call for Applications | Getty Residential Scholars: Repair
From ArtHist.net:
Getty Residential Scholars: Repair
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2025–26
Applications due by 1 October 2024
The Getty Research Institute is pleased to announce that the 2025–2026 application for residential grants and fellowships for pre-docs, post-docs, and scholars is open as of 1 July 2024. Applications are due by 1 October 2024 at 5pm PT.
For 2025–2026, Getty invites scholars and arts professionals to apply for a residential fellowship on the topic of repair, a theme that bridges time periods, world geographies, and professional practices. Situated between the forces of creation and destruction, the act of repair can be deeply transformative, with the potential to heal, alter, and renew the material environment. Scholars are asked to think critically about repair, questioning interpretive assessments about the ideal state of any object or site, in addition to querying what constitutes damage or whether to repair the ruined or the broken. Beyond such physical interventions, art and sites of commemoration are often mobilized to heal a fractured social fabric. Indeed, art itself may be offered as reparation to address past wrongs or to recuperate loss. The issue of repair has deep bearing for the arts, conceived in the broadest sense, and especially for institutions that aim to preserve and share global cultural heritage.
Under the umbrella of the annual theme, dedicated grants are available via the African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI).
Please find the full call for applications and theme text on the Scholars Program webpage.
Applicants need to complete and submit the online Getty Scholar Grant application form with the following:
1 Project Proposal (not to exceed five pages, typed and double-spaced): Each application must include a description of the applicant’s proposed plan for study and research (not to exceed five pages, typed and double-spaced). The proposal should indicate:
• how the project addresses the annual theme
• if applicable, how it would benefit from the resources at the Getty, including its library and collections.
• Applicants for AAAHI grants should additionally describe how their projects will generate new knowledge in the field of African American art history.
2 Curriculum Vitae
3 Optional Writing Sample
Applicants will be notified of their application outcome approximately six months after the deadline.
Contact
Email: researchgrants@getty.edu
Attn: Getty Scholar Grants
The Decorative Arts Trust Announces Recipients of Publishing Grants
From the press release (13 June 2024) . . .
The Decorative Arts Trust congratulates the inaugural recipients of their new Publishing Grants. The Hispanic Society Museum and Library; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens received Publishing Grants for Collections, Exhibitions, and Conferences, and Dr. Joseph Larnerd from Drexel University received a Publishing Grant for Dissertations and First-Time Authors.
In November 2024, the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York City’s Washington Heights will publish A Room of Her Own: The Estrados of Viceregal Spain to accompany their landmark exhibition of the same name. Guest Curator Alexandra Frantischek Rodriguez-Jack and Deputy Director and Head of Collections Margaret Connors McQuade will lead this examination of the estrado, defined in the early 18th-century treatise Diccionario de Autoridades as the “set of furniture used to cover and decorate the place or room where the ladies sit to receive visitors.” The estrado was a remarkable space where a diverse group of women engaged in elaborate social practices and displayed their collections of valuable objects from the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Decorative arts, paintings, rare books, and engravings from the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s collection will be presented in an entirely new light, with many to be exhibited for the first time.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California plans to release a comprehensive publication about an influential Los Angeles-based ceramics artist in fall 2026. Although additional details cannot be announced at this time, the book will complement an exhibition led by Lauren Cross, PhD, the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is publishing Art, Industry, and Reform in Philadelphia, 1876–1926, accompanying the museum’s spring 2026 exhibition of the same name. David Barquist, The H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator of American Decorative Arts, and Colin Fanning, Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts, lead the exhibition and publication, which will focus on Philadelphia artisans and architects who drew on a range of inspirations—from the British Arts and Crafts movement to masterworks at the World’s Fairs—to address challenges of urban industrialization. Their investigation will be among PMA’s offerings during the nation’s 250th commemoration, which is also the museum’s 150th anniversary year.
Dr. Joseph Larnerd received the inaugural Publishing Grant for Dissertations and First-Time Authors. Larnerd, an Assistant Professor of Design History at Drexel University in Philadelphia, will publish Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Long Gilded Age with the University of Delaware Press in fall 2025. This publication offers an original history of cut glass refracted through the labors required to make and maintain the glistening wares. Larnerd will show how popular representations of the medium and these widely discussed labors undercut how working-class peoples imagined and enacted social class, privilege, and mobility.
The deadline to apply for Decorative Arts Trust Publishing Grants is March 31 annually. For more information, visit decorativeartstrust.org.
Funding News | Mellon Centre Publication and Digitisation Grants
The Mellon Centre recently announced changes to its publication grants and the introduction of digitization grants:
Paul Mellon Centre Funding: Publication and Digitisation Grants
Applications accepted 5 August — 30 September 2024
Ahead of the opening of the autumn 2024 round of funding opportunities we have made some alterations to simplify and improve our Publication Grants. Our Publication Grants continue to be one of our most heavily subscribed awards, and in 2023 received over ninety applications. Therefore we have decided to streamline the process; instead of having the single Publication Grant, for which authors and publishers could apply separately or together, from autumn 2024 there will be three distinct grant categories:
Author Grants (Large)
Awards of up to £6,000 which can only be applied for by authors, editors or individuals working on a long-form piece of written work (e.g. monograph, catalogue etc.). This award is designed to support costs incurred by the author relating to the publication, such as image purchasing and copyright, commissioning of new photography or graphics, marketing/publicity costs and supporting publisher subventions.
Author Grants (Small)
Awards of up to £1,000 which can only be applied for by individuals working on a short-form piece of written work (e.g. article, chapter etc.) for a scholarly journal or edited volume. This award is primarily designed to support costs incurred by the individual for images use associated with their piece of writing (e.g. copyright costs, image purchasing, commissioning of new photography or graphics).
Exhibition Publication Grants
Awards of up to £6,000 which can only be applied for by organisations, institutions or publishers working on a publication associated with an exhibition on British art or architectural history. The publication could be due to be published to coincide with the exhibition or as a direct result of an exhibition. This award is primarily designed to support the practical costs incurred by the organisation, institution or publisher when publishing the work (e.g. printing, binding, image rights, commissioning new photography or images, indexing, copy-editing, production costs, marketing and publicity etc.). If a publisher is interested in applying for a grant for a publication not relating to an exhibition we would encourage them to speak to the author or editor so they can apply for an Author Grant (Large).
Applications will open on 5 August and close 30 September. Please do contact the Grants & Fellowships Manager if you have any questions relating to these changes. Multiple applications across these schemes, for the same publication, will not be accepted. If an applicant is interested in digitising a publication then we would encourage them to look at our new Digitisation Grant which is due to be introduced in autumn 2024.
Supporting the field of British art history publishing has been an important strand of grantmaking for Paul Mellon Centre since its inception in 1970. These changes to the structure of the publications grants will not impact on the overall amount awarded to publication annually, and we will endeavour to support as many projects as possible.
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Digitisation Grants
The Mellon Centre is pleased to be able to introduce Digitisation Grants, a new funding opportunity that will be offered for the first time in our autumn 2024 round. Our Digital Project Grant was introduced in 2015 and since then has supported a variety of fascinating and innovative digital projects; however, since its inception we have noticed that many applicants are looking for funding to support more straightforward digitisation projects, and we hope this new grant will help.
The Digitisation Grant is an award of up to £5,000 and is specifically designed to help organisations make materials from their collections freely available for users online via digital methods. The grant may be used towards the practical costs of in-house digitisation (e.g. equipment and software), hiring an external digitisation service and personnel costs for cataloguing or research purposes.
Materials to be digitised could include:
• photographic collections
• archival collections of letters, index cards, notes etc.
• bound volumes (e.g. diaries, magazines, newspapers, albums, sketchbooks, published books etc.)
• objects, paintings or assets
• publications
Please note that organisations can only apply for this award to digitise items in their own collections.
We hope this grant will help to make materials concerning British art and architectural history available to a wider audience and continue Paul Mellon Centre’s mission to champion new ways of understanding British art history and culture.
Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation
From The Decorative Arts Trust:
Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation, $100,000
Application due by 30 June 2024
To further the Decorative Arts Trust’s mission to foster appreciation and study of the arts, the Trust established this $100,000 Prize for Excellence and Innovation. The Prize funds outstanding projects that advance the public’s appreciation of decorative art, fine art, architecture, or landscape. The Prize is awarded to a non-profit organization in the United States or abroad for a scholarly endeavor, such as museum exhibitions, print and digital publications, and online databases. The Trust’s selection committee aims to recognize impactful and original projects that advance scholarship in the field while reaching a broad audience.
Visit the Trust’s website for details and application instructions.
Wentworth Woodhouse Visit
From the York Georgian Society:
Wentworth Woodhouse Visit with the York Georgian Society
24 April 2024
Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire.
An opportunity to visit one of England’s greatest Georgian country houses—rebuilt by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham in the mid-18th century—to view the latest developments in its ambitious conservation and restoration programme.
The day will begin with a guided tour of the State Rooms on the main floor. Lunch will be followed by a look at the newly restored Camellia House in the company of Dorian Proudfoot, lead conservation architect for the Wentworth Woodhouse Restoration Project. Originally built in 1738 as an orangery and tea room, the building was later converted to house camellias and other rare plants from China and Japan. After complete restoration from dereliction it is now back in use as a tea room and events venue. Dorian will then take us to the magnificent stable block, originally built in 1782 to house 84 horses and more than 30 staff, together with a riding school, carriage house, and saddlery. The stables and courtyard are being transformed in a £5 million regeneration plan to accommodate a visitors’ centre, kitchen, café, and events venue.
Bookings: YGS members and Friends of York Art Gallery: £43; non-members: £48. Places are limited to 25 persons. The cost includes tea/coffee and biscuits on arrival, lunch, and tours of the State Rooms, Camellia House, and Stables. Book your place here.
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