For Faculty in Performing Arts, Studio Arts and Art History
 

AAR Award, Religion and the Arts                www.aarweb.org
American Academy of Religion.  To artist, performer, critic, or scholar who has made recent significant contribution to understanding of relations among the arts and religions, both for scholars and for the broader public.  Deadline March

AAUW Fellowships                                    www.aauw.org
    Postdoc Research Leave Fellowships -- $30,000, one year. Intended to assist in obtaining tenure.  Female; Ph.D., MFA, EdD, DBA, or DM by application. Arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences. Preference to projects that are not dissertation revision. Deadline early Nov.
    Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants -- $6,000 for 8-week consecutive period. To prepare manuscript for publication. Female; must have doctorate or MFA. May also be part-time or temporary faculty. For drafting, editing, review; not for preliminary research. Cannot be co-authored. Scholars with strong publication records should seek elsewhere. Deadline early Nov.

American Antiquarian Society                www.americanantiquarian.org
Library collections = Amer. hist or culture through 1876.  Fields = history, art and music history, literature, political science, 18th-cent. studies, newspapers, magazines, history of book.
   Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship -- $35,000 for 12-month fellowship. Up to 3 yrs from Ph.D.  Any topic in collection; to revise or extend dissertation for publication. Deadline Oct.
   AAS-NEH Fellowships -- To $40,000 for 4-12 mo residency.  Mid-career encouraged.  January.
   AAS Short-term Fellowships - $1,000 per month for 1-3 mo. For research in collections. January.

Artist Residencies           http://www.resartis.org/index.php?id=304
see also:   http://www.artistcommunities.org/about-residencies/directory

AGLSP National Faculty Award                www.aglsp.org
Assoc. of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs.  $1,000, conference presentation; to outstanding interdisciplinary faculty teaching in graduate liberal studies program.  Deadline June.

BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards        www.fbbva.es/awards
$600,000 award recognizing creative excellence in music, painting, sculpture; or research in physics, chemistry, math, biomedicine, conservation biology, information technologies, economics.  Nom deadline June.

Bollingen Prize for Poetry                    http://highway49.library.yale.edu/bollingen
$100,000 prize awarded every two years for best volume of poetry published in those two years, or for lifetime achievement.

Residential Fellows, CASBS                    www.casbs.org/programs
Academic-year interdisciplinary residential fellowship at Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Social and natural sciences, humanities, arts, and professions.  General themes 2009-10:  1. Longevity  2. Invisible forces.  Deadline June 1.

Center for Hellenic Studies                        www.chs.harvard.edu/fellowships.sec
Stipend, housing, travel.  One yr. For research project on ancient Greece, e.g. archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, philosophy, interdisciplinary. Pref to early-career tenure-track, but not dissertation revision.  Deadline October. 

CSGS New Scholar Award                        www.csgs.org/awards/
Conference of Southern Graduate Schools.  $1,000 Recognizing scholarly achievement by early-career faculty, <6 yrs from Ph.D. Fall 2008 nominations: Life Science. Fall 09 noms: Social Sciences, Business, Education; Fall'10 noms: Humanities, Fine Arts.  Nom deadline early Oct.

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation        www.delmas.org
Grants for research in Venice. Historical or contemporary Venetian society and culture. Humanities and social sciences, e.g. arts, archaeology, history, economics, law, literature, music, religion, theater...Deadline Dec. 15.

Dumbarton Oaks, Fellowships                    www.doaks.org
One-month, summer, or acad. yr residential fellowships in Byzantine or Pre-Columbian studies.

Getty Research Institute                        www.getty.edu/grants/research
Arts, humanities, social sciences.  Museum Institute or at Villa.  All deadlines are Nov 1
   Research Scholar -- To $75,000 for academic-yr residency
   Visiting Scholar -- $3,500 monthly, up to 3 mo.
   Post-doc -- $22,000 for academic year.  Ph.D. 2002 or later
   Library Research Grant -- To $2,500.  Five days to 3 months.
   Pre-doc -- $18,000 for academic year.

Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition            www.grawemeyer.org
$200,000 to recognize a composer for a work premiered in the previous 5 years, in a large genre: choral, orchestral, chamber, dance, opera, musical theater, extended solo and more.  Deadline early January.

Howard Fellowships                                www.brown.edu/Howard_Foundation
$25,000 stipend to support mid-career (completed degree in past 5-15 yrs) project; espec. intended to augment paid sabbatical leave. Topics announced annually, in 6-yr rotation of fields in Liberal and Fine Arts.  Nomination deadline November.

Huntington Library Fellowships            www.huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html
Fields:  British, American history, literature, art history, history of science and medicine.  December
   Barbara Thom Postdoc -- $40,000.  Non-tenured faculty revising manuscript to publish.
   Mellon Postdoc Research Fellowship -- $40,000. 
   NEH Fellowship -- up to $40,000; 4-12 months. US citizen or 3 yrs' US residence.
   Huntington Fellows -- $2,000/mo for 1-5 months.  Ph.D. or candidate at dissertation stage.
   Keck Foundation Young Scholars -- $2,300/mo. Non-tenured fac or cand. at dissert. stage.
   Huntington-British Academy -- one month in Great Britain. 
   Clark-Huntington Postdoc -- $4,000, two months.  History of the book.

Jentel Artist Residency                        www.jentelarts.org/
One-month residency. Visual artists (all media) and creative writers, age 25+. Deadlines Jan. 15 for summer/fall, Sept. 15 for winter/spring.

MacDowell Residency                                www.macdowellcolony.org
Up to 8 weeks. Peterborough, New Hampshire.  Deadlines Sept 15 for spring, Janu 15 for summer, April 15 for fall

Metropolitan Museum, Art History Fellowships   www.metmuseum.org/education
Short- and long-term resident fellowships to pre-doctoral students and to post-docs generally under age 40.  Research related to Museum's collections.  Deadline Nov. 1

J. Clawson Mills Scholarships                www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship
 Awarded for one year's study or research at the Metropolitan Museum or abroad in any branch of the fine arts relating to the Museum's collection. These scholarships are generally reserved for mature scholars of demonstrated ability.  Nov. 1

National Gallery of Art                            http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvaflws.htm
Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts.  Short-term and long-term resident fellowships, up to $50,000 plus housing.  Deadline Sept.

National Humanities Center                    http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Residential fellowships. All areas of humanistic study, including specific fellowships restricted for art history, theology, Asian studies, and environmental studies.  Oct 15

Native American Artist Fellowships                    www.sarweb.org
2-month to 6-mo resident fellowships (Santa Fe) for Native American Artists.  Deadline Nov. 1

NEH Summer Stipends            www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
$6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing, of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities, projects at any stage of development. US citzns or foreign nationals in US for 3 yrs.  Junior or senior faculty; adjunct or part-time ok. Not for: collection inventories; curriculum development; textbooks; creative or performing arts.  Two nominations allowed per university; express interest to SMU Office of National Fellowships.  Deadline July 31.

Newberry Library, Zelzer Fellowship            www.newberry.org/research/
To $3,500 for research in Newberry Library's music collections. 

Nissim Prize                                  www.ascap.com/concert/nissimapp.pdf
$5,000   For best original concert music score requiring a conductor.  Deadline November.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Stipend            http://okeeffemuseum.org
Stipend for 3 to 12 months' research at the Museum.  Deadline November

Pulitzer Prize                            www.pulitzer.org
Categories music, drama, fiction, poetry, letters, journalism.  Deadlines vary

Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency        www.rockfound.org/bellagio
4-week residency at Bellagio, Italy.  Scholars, scientists, and creative artists in all fields.  January

Rome Prize                                    www.aarome.org
American Academy in Rome.  Residential Fellowships 6 months to 2 yrs.  Music composition, visual arts, architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, ancient studies, medieval, Renaissance, early modern, and modern Italian studies.  Deadline Nov 1.

Shohet Scholars                            www.catacombsociety.org
$10,000-30,000, one yr.  For significant original research in archaeology, art history, classical studies, history, comparative religions, or related subjects, within the sphere of the Mediterranean world from late Hellenistic to end of Roman Empire.  Special interest: interdisciplinary, new perspectives.  Nov. 15

Smithsonian Postdoc Fellowships            www.si.edu
History of Art, scholars up to 7 yrs beyond Ph.D.  $42,000/yr, 3-12 months.  January 15.

Smithsonian Senior Fellows                      www.si.edu
For scholars 7+ yrs beyond Ph.D.  $42,000/yr, 3-12 months.  January 15.

Spanish Ministry PCC            www.umabroad.umn.edu/professionals/faculty/pcc.php
Program for Cultural Cooperation, to disseminate Spanish history/culture in US; matches up to 50% of direct costs for research projects in Spain.  Grants also for translations, symposia, arts productions, publication subvention, dissertation research.  Deadline April 1.

Terra Summer Residency in Giverny        www.terraamericanart.org
8-week residency at Musee d'Art Americain, Giverny.  Artists with MFA in painting or mixed media. Deadline January.

Ucross Residency                        www.ucrossfoundation.org
Residencies for visual artists, creative writers, dancers, composers, collaborative teams.  Deadlines Oct. 1 for spring, March 1 for fall.

UNESCO Fellowship                    www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/programs
to $15,000 for 1 to 6 months abroad in training or advanced research.  April 1

Wolf Prize                                       http://www.wolffund.org.il
$100,000  Music, painting, sculpture.  For achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples.  Deadline August

Yaddo Residency                            http://yaddo.org
Saratoga Springs, New York.  Resident room, board, studio for 2 weeks to 2 months for professional creative artists:  music composition, visual arts, literature, choreography, film/video.  January 1 for May-Feb starts; Aug 1 for Oct-May start