Art and Art History
The National Endowment for the Arts
Arts Education The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to providing leadership in arts education. The arts are an essential component of education, and all children, not only those with specific artistic talent, benefit from an education in the arts including opportunities to create, perform, and communicate through various artistic media. Today, the Arts Endowment's focus is on identifying and supporting model programs and projects that provide in-depth knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts to children and youth in schools and communities. Research strongly suggests that young people who learn about and participate in the arts acquire skills that help them in decision making, problem solving, creative thinking, and teamwork. An increasing number of studies also finds that arts programs motivate children to learn, assisting in improving performance in core academic subjects.
http://www.arts.endow.gov/grants/apply/Artsed.html The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Huntington Long-Term and Short-Term FellowshipsThe Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Library collections range from the eleventh century to the present and include a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, 600,000 photographs, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. The Huntington will award over one hundred fellowships for the academic year 2008-2009. These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms.
http://www.huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html Stanford University / Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford Humanities FellowshipsSince its inception in 1980, the Humanities Center has offered External Faculty Fellowships to all ranks of the professoriate and from a wide variety of disciplinary fields. Fellowships are awarded to support research projects in the humanities; creative arts projects are not eligible. The Humanities Center seeks candidates whose research is likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars within the disciplines of the humanities.
http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/external_fac.htm Aaron Siskind Foundation
Individual Photographer's Fellowship
Since 1991, the Aaron Siskind Foundation has become a resource that supports contemporary photography and reward and encourage excellence in its practitioners. It offers grants to emerging photographers and a limited number of fellowships to individual artists working in still photography.
http://www.aaronsiskind.org/news.html ASIANetwork
Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows ProgramFounded in 1992, ASIANetwork strives to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education to help prepare succeeding generations of undergraduates for a world in which Asian societies play prominent roles. ASIANetwork seeks to encourage the study of Asian countries and cultures on campuses and to enable students and faculty to experience these cultures first hand. The Student-Faculty Fellows Program supports collaborative research in Asia for a faculty mentor and up to five students from an ASIANetwork institution.
http://www.asianetwork.org/ California Community Foundation
Fellowship for Visual Artists
The CCF's FELLOWSHIP FOR VISUAL ARTISTS acknowledge the contributions of outstanding mid-career artists in Los Angeles by enhancing, encouraging and nurturing artistic accomplishments. Efforts that increase the representation and participation of minorities, immigrants and low-income individuals and communities in the arts.
http://www.calfund.org/receive/ccf_grantmaking.php Creative Capital Foundation
Visual Arts and Film/VideoFounded in 1999, Creative Capital acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. FILM/VIDEO may include experimental documentary, animation (including vector animation), experimental film/video, non-traditional narrative (in all formats), and interdisciplinary projects. VISUAL ARTS may include painting, sculpture, works on paper, installation, photo-based work, contemporary crafts, public art and interdisciplinary projects.
http://creative-capital.org/application/ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Guggenheim Fellowships for Research and Artistic Creation-US and Canadian Competition
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed.
http://www.gf.org/index.html California Community Foundation
Cover Art Award
The Cover Art Award is designed to support an emerging Los Angeles artist working in painting, drawing, or printmaking by purchasing an artwork that best reflects the foundation’s annual theme: “Arts and Culture in Diverse Communities.” This year’s theme embodies CCF’s goal to support initiatives that expand access to the arts for low-income populations, recognize non-traditional art forms among various cultures and leverage the arts as a means of revitalizing neighborhoods.
http://www.calfund.org/receive/CoverArtAward.php The Contemplative Mind in Society
The Contemplative Practice Fellowships
These fellowships seek to restore and renew the critical contribution that contemplative practices can make to the life of teaching, learning, and scholarship. At the heart of the program is the belief that pedagogical and intellectual benefits can be discovered by bringing contemplative practice into the academy, and that contemplative awareness can help to create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society.
http://www.contemplativemind.org/programs/academic/fellowships.html#apply Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program
The most prestigious award in the Fulbright Scholar Program, the DISTINGUISHED CHAIR provides opportunities to senior faculty with a prominent record of scholarly accomplishment.
http://www.cies.org/ Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
Fulbright Traditional Scholar Program
The traditional FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
http://www.cies.org/ Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
Fulbright Senior Specialists Program
The FULBRIGHT SENIOR SPECIALISTS PROGRAM is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals to promote academic exchanges that will broaden your cultural perspective in your academic field. Shorter grant lengths give Specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant that works best with their current academic or professional commitments.
http://www.cies.org/