Arts/Arts History

Abroad for Historians of American Art: Fellowships for doctoral students in art history who study aspects of art and architecture of the United States, including native and pre-Revolutionary America. The travel fellowship is intended to encourage a breadth of experience beyond the candidate's major field, with preference accorded to those who have had little opportunity for professional travel abroad. The fellowship is not intended for advancement of a dissertation. The fellowship period is for two to three months of continuous travel abroad in areas such as Africa, Asia, Europe, or South America, to museums, exhibitions, collections, monuments, and historic sites.
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvatrv.htm

Albee, Edward F. Foundation: A residence for writers, painters, sculptors and composers, the Center is open from June 1st to October 1st. Residencies are for one month periods of time. The standards for admission are, simply, talent and need.
http://www.albeefoundation.org/

American School Of Classical Studies at Athens: Postdoctoral scholars and professionals in relevant fields who are U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have lived in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Applicants must have completed their professional training but do not have to hold the Ph.D. Areas of interest include: history, philosophy, language, literature, art and archaeology of Greece and the Greek world, from pre-Hellenic times to the present.
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowship/fellowships.htm

Annenberg Foundation: Provides support for projects within its grant-making interests of education, culture, the arts, and community and civic life. It generally limits funding to programs likely to produce beneficent change on a large scale.
http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/

Bothmer Fellowship: Awarded to an outstanding graduate student who has been admitted to the doctoral program of a university in the United States, and who has submitted an outline of a thesis dealing with either Greek or Roman art. Preference will be given to the applicant who, in the opinion of the Grants Committee, will profit most from utilizing the resources of the Department of Greek and Roman Art: its collections, library, photographic and other archives, and the guidance of its curatorial staff.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

College Art Association (CAA) Archive of Grants, Fellowships, and other Financial Awards:
http://www.collegeart.org/pubgrant/

College Art Association (CAA) Professional Development Fellowships: Helps M.F.A., terminal M.A., and Ph.D. students bridge the gap between graduate study and professional careers. By offering our support at this critical juncture in scholars’ and artists’ careers, we hope to make timely degree completion more viable and employment opportunities more accessible. In turn, by nurturing outstanding scholars and artists at the beginning of their careers, we hope to strengthen and diversify the profession as a whole. Each fellow receives support over a period of two years.
http://www.collegeart.org/caa/career/fellowship.html

College Art Association (CAA) The Terra Foundation pre-1940 American Art Fellowship: Terra Foundation Fellowship is open to all Ph.D. candidates studying pre-1940 American Art.
http://www.collegeart.org/caa/career/fellowship.html

Dale, Chester Fellowships: Intended for individuals whose fields of study are related to the fine arts of the western world and who are preferably American citizens under the age of forty. The grants, which typically cover periods from three months to one year, are for research at the Metropolitan Museum.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art: Awarded in honor of John K. Howat to a promising young scholar for one year's study or research in the American Wing (in either the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture or the Department of American Decorative Arts) on an aspect of the Metropolitan Museum's collection. Applicants should have been enrolled for at least one year in an advanced degree program in the field of American art or culture.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

Finley, David E. Fellowship: For travel and research in Europe on a well-advanced dissertation in Western art and an additional year in residence at the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, to complete the dissertation. A primary requirement for the award of this fellowship is that the candidate have a significant interest in museum work, which could be furthered during travel to visit European and other collections as well as during the period of residency at the Center in Washington.
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvapre.htm

Fulbright Lusk Memorial Fellowship: Fields of study include creative and performing arts only.
http://www.iie.org/Template.cfm?section=Fulbright1

Fulbright Scholarships: Give recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master’s and doctoral candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience. Most grantees plan their own programs. Projects may include university coursework, independent library or field research, classes in a music conservatory or art school, special projects in the social or life sciences, or a combination. Teaching and business opportunities also available.
http://www.iie.org/Template.cfm?&Template=/programs/fulbright/us/default.htm - types

Herb Society of America: Open to those who are interested in furthering the knowledge and use of herbs through research in horticulture, science, literature, history, art and/or economics.
http://www.herbsociety.org/research.php

Ittleson Fellowship: Intended for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation in a field other than Western art. The Ittleson Fellow is expected to spend one year of the fellowship period on dissertation research abroad, and one year at the Center to complete the dissertation.
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvapre.htm

Kade, Annette Fellowship: Awarded to French and German pre-doctoral art history students for one year's study or research at the Metropolitan Museum. The award is intended for French and German students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to study in the United States.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

Kress, Samuel H. Fellowship and Mary Davis Fellowship: Intended primarily for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation in European art on a topic prior to the early nineteenth century. The Kress and Davis Fellows are expected to spend one year of their fellowship on dissertation research abroad, and one year at the Center to complete their dissertations and devote half-time to Gallery research projects designed to complement the subject of the dissertations and to provide curatorial experience. Kress and Davis Fellows may apply for a postdoctoral curatorial fellowship if the dissertation has been accepted by 1 June of the second year of the fellowship.
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvapre.htm

Liberace Scholarship Fund: The purpose of the fund is to provide grants to accredited colleges and universities that offer degrees in the performing and creative arts. These grants are to be used exclusively for scholarship assistance to talented and deserving students. Programs funded include: Creative and Performance Based Arts Disciplines such as Music, Theater, Dance, and the Visual Arts.
http://www.liberace.org/liberace_foundation/liberace_scholarship.php

Luce, Henry Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art: Meant to support any stage of Ph.D. dissertation research or writing in the art history of the United States in any period.
http://www.acls.org/luceguid.htm

Mellon, Andrew W. Fellowship: Intended for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation in a field other than Western art. The Andrew W. Mellon Fellow is expected to spend one year of the fellowship period on dissertation research abroad, and one year at the Center to complete the dissertation.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

Mellon, Andrew W. Fellowships: Provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Fund for promising young scholars with commendable research projects related to the Museum's collections, as well as for distinguished visiting scholars from this country and abroad who can serve as teachers and advisors and make their expertise available to catalogue and refine the collections. Usually a fellowship will be given for a maximum of one year, most of which should be spent at the Metropolitan Museum. Applicants should have received the doctorate or have completed substantial work toward it. Fellowships for senior scholars are also available for as short a term as one month.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html - bothmer

National Humanities Center Fellowships: The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study. Applicants must hold doctorate or have equivalent scholarly credentials, and a record of publication is expected. Both senior and younger scholars are eligible for fellowships, but the latter should be engaged in research other than the revision of a doctoral dissertation. Fellowships are for the academic year (September through May). Scholars from any nation and humanistically inclined individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life, as well as from all fields of the humanities, are eligible. Most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted. The following designated awards, however, are available for the academic year 2004-05: three fellowships for scholars in any humanistic field whose research concerns religion or theology; three fellowships for young scholars (up to 10 years beyond receipt of doctorate) in literary studies; a fellowship in art history or visual culture; a fellowship for French history or culture; a fellowship in Asian Studies.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/

Newberry Library École des Chartes Exchange Fellowship: This fellowship, open to graduate students, provides a monthly stipend and free tuition for an American graduate student at the E'cole Nationale des Chartes in Paris for a period of three months. The E'cole des Chartes is the oldest institution in Europe specializing in the archival sciences, including paleography, bibliography, textual editing, and the history of the book. Preference will be given to students from schools supporting the Center for Renaissance Studies.
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/special.html

O’Keefe, Georgia Museum Research Center Scholarship Program: Scholarships are awarded to (a) doctoral candidates who have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for the Ph.D. whose dissertation project is under the direction of a faculty member from their own institution and (b) scholars who hold a doctorate (or comparable degree and/or experience), have distinguished themselves in their field, and wish to pursue research. Awarded to historians in the fields of art, architecture & design, literature, music, and photography and to museum or other professionals who wish to have or extend their curatorial experience.
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/center/scholarships.html

Resources In Art History For Graduate Students:
http://www.efn.org/~acd/resources.html

Rome Prize Fellowships: Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows are selected to pursue individual research projects in various fields of the arts and humanities while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. Fellowships are offered in the following fields: Architecture, Graphic Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Musical Composition, Set Design, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Visual Arts, Archaeology, Classical Studies, History of Art, Modern Italian Studies, and Post-Classical Humanistic Studies.
http://www.aarome.org/prize.htm

Rousseau, Theodore Fellowships: Intended to develop the skills of connoisseurship by supporting first-hand examination of paintings in major European collections, rather than by supporting library research. The fellowships are awarded for the training of students whose goal is to enter museums as curators of painting. Applicants should have been enrolled for at least one year in an advanced degree program in the field of art history. Short-term fellowships of at least three months will be considered along with twelve month requests.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

Smith, Robert H. and Clarice Fellowship: For research on seventeenth-century Dutch or Flemish art, and intended for the advancement or completion either of a doctoral dissertation or of a resulting publication. The Smith Fellow may use the grant to study either in the United States or abroad; there are no residence requirements at the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvapre.htm

Smithsonian Latino Studies Fellowship Program: Provides opportunities to US Latino/a predoctoral students and postdoctoral and senior scholars to pursue research topics that relate to Latino art, culture, and history. Interdisciplinary subjects are encouraged and can be undertaken at more than one of the Smithsonian museums and/or research units, and advised by one or more of the Smithsonian research staff members.
http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm

Social Science Research Council: Sponsors fellowship and grant programs on a wide range of topics, and across many different career stages. Most support goes to predissertation, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships, offered through annual competitions. Some programs support summer institutes and advanced research grants. Although most programs target the social sciences, many are also open to applicants from the humanities, the natural sciences, and relevant professional and practitioner communities.
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/?Predissertation

Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award: Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field. In the past, fellowships have been awarded to candidates in anthropology, architecture, art history, economics, education, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, public health, psychology, religion, and sociology, but eligibility is not restricted to these academic areas. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research in education once the doctorate is attained.
http://www.spencer.org/programs/fellows/fellow_awards.htm

Stacey Scholarship Fund: The purpose of the Scholarship is to foster a high standard in the study of form, color, drawing, painting, design, and technique, as these are expressed in modes showing patent affinity with the classical tradition of western culture. Only those should apply who are skilled and devoted to this classical or conservative tradition.
http://www.cowboyhalloffame.org/m_stac.html

University of Pennsylvania Archive of Art/Art History Fellowships. Grants, and other Financial Support:
http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/

Weissman, Polaire Fund: Provides fellowships to qualified graduate students, who preferably will have completed graduate studies in the fine arts or studies in costume, and who are interested in pursuing costume history in a museum or teaching career, or other career (including conservation) related to the field of costume. These grants are generally awarded for a nine month term.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

Whitney, Jane and Morgan Fellowships: Awarded for study, work or research to students of the fine arts whose fields are related to the Museum's collections, with preference to be given to students in the decorative arts who are under forty years of age. The fellowship carries the possibility of renewal for one additional year.
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

Wyeth Fellowship: Intended for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation in the visual arts of the United States before 1945. The Wyeth Fellow is expected to spend one year of the fellowship period on dissertation research in the United States or abroad, and one year at the Center to complete the dissertation.
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvapre.htm