Arts/Arts History

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/

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/

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?section=Fulbright1

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

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

Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships: The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers annual resident fellowships in art history to qualified graduate students at the predoctoral level as well as to postdoctoral researchers. Projects should relate to the Museum's collection. The fields of research for art history candidates include Asian art, arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, antiquities, arms and armor, costumes, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, textiles, and Western art. Some art history fellowships for travel abroad are also available for students whose projects involve firsthand examination of paintings in major European collections. http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship.html

National Gallery of Art Predoctoral Fellowship Program: The National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its annual program of support for advanced graduate research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism.
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvapre.htm

National Gallery of Art's Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abraod: 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

National Humanities Center Fellowships: The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study.
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

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

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