The Drawing Institute at the Morgan Library & Museum is a research center with a mission to deepen the understanding and appreciation of the role of drawing in the history of art. Making full use of the resources at the Morgan Library & Museum, the Drawing Institute is devoted to the study of drawings from all periods, exploring their centrality in the creative process.

Each year, the Drawing Institute offers multiple fellowships:

The nine-month Kress Predoctoral Fellowship is intended for an advanced-level graduate student who has completed all course work and exams and is currently engaged in research and writing of a doctoral dissertation in the history of art, some component of which pertains to the history, theory, collecting, function or interpretation of old master and/or modern drawings.

The nine-month Postdoctoral Fellowship is intended for a scholar in the first decade of their career following the completion of the Ph.D. or equivalent advanced degree. The Postdoctoral Fellowship supports work on an independent research project relating to some aspect of the history, theory, collecting, function or interpretation of old master and/or modern drawings.

The Fellows are expected to spend their fellowship period in residence. The majority of the Fellows’ time will be spent on their proposed research projects, but the Fellows are expected to participate fully in the intellectual life of the Morgan and to attend Drawing Institute programs during their tenure.

Application Procedure:
Applicants are asked to submit the following:
- a cover letter addressing the applicant’s area of interest
- a curriculum vitae
- a research proposal (maximum 3 pages, double-spaced) specifying what the applicant wishes to accomplish during the fellowship period and detailing how he/she will utilize the Morgan’s resources and collections
- a writing sample, in English
- two letters from academic or professional references in support of the proposed project

All application materials must be in English and should be submitted online (Application Deadline: 30 Nov 20): https://www.themorgan.org/opportunities/drawing-institute-application

Letters of reference should be emailed directly to: drawinginstitute@themorgan.org.

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomes applications from scholars of the history of art and visual culture, archaeology, conservation and related sciences, as well as those in other disciplines whose projects relate to objects in The Met’s collection. The tremendous diversity of fellows' projects reflects the historic and geographic diversity of the Museum's collection. The community of fellows becomes immersed in the intellectual life of the Museum and takes part in a robust program of colloquia, roundtable seminars, research-sharing workshops, behind-the-scenes tours of exhibitions, conversations with Museum staff, and visits to curatorial and conservation departments. Fellows form long-lasting professional relationships as they discuss research questions, look closely at objects, and share the experience of living in New York City.

Deadlines for all application materials (including letters of recommendation) are listed below. All deadlines are at 5:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 p.m. GMT.
History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowships – November 6, 2020
Interdisciplinary Fellowship – November 6, 2020
Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships in Modern Art – November 6, 2020
Conservation Fellowships and Scientific Research Fellowships – December 4, 2020
Research Scholarship in Photograph Conservation – December 4, 2020

Questions may be sent to Academic.Programs@metmuseum.org.

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information about each fellowship and to apply.

As an effort to remedy racial and gender inequity in the art world at large and more specifically in our local printmaking community, the California Society of Printmakers (CSP) is partnering with college level Art History and Printmaking faculty to publish essays on California’s diverse printmaking history. The initial focus will be on California printmakers who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and/or female identified.

The primary impetus of this CSP initiative is to bring attention to individuals and collectives who are un- or under- represented in the print world because of their racial, ethnic and/or gender identities, i.e. people who have been overlooked or dismissed because of discrimination. The secondary impetus is to develop academically sound materials on these artists so that their legacies will be further researched and (hopefully) broadly known.

Partner benefits include a new publishing platform and professional research experience for art history and printmaking students and faculty; institutional recognition.

CSP benefits include viable action towards racial and gender parity; extension of CSP’s educational mission. Community benefits include increased awareness of California’s rich and diverse printmakers and their histories.

Parameters:
-Essay length: 1500 – 3000 words
-Artwork images: 5 – 9, photo sources required
-Artist portrait: at least one, artist in studio if available, photo sources required
-Author: If the author is a student, the essay is to be written under faculty supervision. Faculty and institution will be noted with publication.
-Publication platform: CSP Website, News item in CSP newsletter, potential future print publication
-Rights to republish granted to author.
-Stipend of $150 for published essays. We will accept publish ready work only. Payment upon publication.
-Image files: 300 ppi, Adobe RGB, tiff files, smallest dimension 5”, largest dimension 10″
-Author Bio: 100 words
-Style:MLA
-Abstract: required

Note: CSP affiliation is NOT required of authors or subjects.

Interested authors should submit a brief proposal indicating the research subject and why they are of interest; author status (faculty, student) and institution; and expected completion date to website@caprintmakers.org. We will respond promptly as to whether your proposal fits our program at this time or not.

Please visit the 'External Link' below to learn more about the California Society of Printmakers.

Prints, multiples, artist’s books, posters, printed ephemera, etc., have been exhibited alongside paintings and sculptures in international, large-scale exhibitions. They have been displayed in, sold, and collected from the Venice Biennale, São Paulo Biennial, Documenta and several other perennial exhibitions. Regardless of their continuous, vital presence within international venues and despite the proliferation of scholarship on biennials, there have been few studies on the role of prints and artist’s editions within these exhibitions. The editors of OBOE Journal aim to address this lacuna by dedicating a special issue of this academic journal to the topic.

OBOE invites proposals for articles that examine the role prints and printed matter (multiples, artist’s books, printed ephemera, catalogues, etc.) have played in the context of international, large-scale exhibitions from the end of the nineteenth century through the contemporary moment. Papers could consider overlooked or little studied artists, histories, or the reception of prints, artist’s editions or ephemera within such exhibitions. Individual contributions might also analyze print sales or the development of collections acquired from works sold in these exhibitions. Still others might consider the political, social or broader economic aspects of print production, display or reception within a global context. The guest editor of this issue is Jennifer Noonan.

For publication consideration please email an abstract of 300 words together with a short bio to: info@oboejournal.com.

The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2020.

Notification of acceptance by December 31, 2020.

Papers selected for publication should be submitted for double-blind peer review by May 20, 2021.

OBOE Journal is a bi-annual open access journal devoted to international academic research around art and exhibitions. OBOE Journal adopts a double-blind peer review publication process. This journal does not have article submission charges and provides immediate open accesso to its content.

The Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas, is a unique institution housed in a landmark building specially designed for the collecting, study, display, conservation and storage of modern and contemporary drawing. As part of its ambitious plans to become a major research center, the Menil Drawing Institute established a Fellowship Program that fosters the highest level of scholarship and makes possible rich, interdisciplinary, object-based conversations on the drawing medium’s history, theory, criticism, and practice.

The Drawing Institute offers one Pre-Doctoral Fellowship per year. It is open by application to students whose research focuses on modern and/or contemporary drawing. The Fellowship is residential and supports individual research towards the Fellow’s doctoral dissertation. Applicants must have completed a master’s degree, completed their graduate coursework, and passed any required pre-doctoral exams (“orals”) before the term of the fellowship begins. Applicants with approved dissertation topics are preferred. The Fellow is expected to reside in Houston for the duration of the fellowship and to participate in the cultural and intellectual life of the Menil.

Terms of Appointment
- The Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowship is 9 months in length, and spans the academic year, lasting from September to June.
- The Fellow will receive a monthly stipend of $3,000 to cover living and other expense incurred during the Fellowship, will be housed in a fully-furnished apartment within a recently refurbished historic bungalow on the Menil campus.
- They will be assigned an office at the Menil Drawing Institute to use for the duration of the fellowship and will have access to the collections, archives, and staff at the Menil and to library collections throughout Houston.

Application Process
Applicants for the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship are required to provide a project proposal (not to exceed 1,000 words), a tentative schedule of work to be achieved during the fellowship period, a curriculum vitae, official undergraduate and graduate transcripts, a writing sample, and three letters of recommendation.

All application materials, including academic transcripts and letters of recommendation, must be sent via email to mdi@menil.org and received by December 11, 2020.

All applicants will be notified of the Menil’s decision by late January 2021.

Join us for a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon that helps to highlight more artists and stories like those featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's landmark exhibition ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now. The exhibition brings together five decades of innovative printmaking by Chicano artists to explore the social justice-rooted artistic tradition and its contemporary legacy. Many of the featured artist came of age during the civil rights era and channeled the period's social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among among people of Mexican descent in the United States. Learn how to edit and create new Wikipedia articles in this online editing workshop and work to amplify and expand on articles about Chicanx women and LGBTQ+ artists. All levels of technological proficiency welcome.

Free with Registration via Eventbrite. Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information.

The Department of Art History at Penn State University is seeking applications from doctoral students in art history and related disciplines for the week-long workshop, Virtual/Material: Color/Pigment.

Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, this workshop will offer an integrated curriculum of Technical and Digital Art History via the special case history of color. Through a combination of seminars, demonstrations, and hands-on labs led by a distinguished faculty of scientists and historians, participants can expect to leave the workshop better equipped to understand historical colorants and their production as well as the ways in which digital cultures can distort or ameliorate historians’ approach to such colorants.

The current requirement that art historians rely more or less exclusively on virtual platforms and digital resources for their research and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has made plainer the need for scholars to understand the relationship between works of art as material objects and as data. The evidentiary status of digital representations of works of art is a question that has become as pressing for students and scholars of art history as it has long been for conservators and conservation scientists, imaging professionals, data scientists, and information specialists. Processes of translation from the material into data and vice-versa are poorly understood by most art historians, potentially jeopardizing the validity of research questions and findings. This predicament is especially conspicuous in the realm of color —a property of artworks that is often misunderstood or marginalized.

Led by Sarah K. Rich, the workshop’s distinguished faculty includes Susan Farnand (Rochester Institute of Technology), Carolyn L. Kane (Ryerson University), Hannelore Roemich (Institute of Fine Arts), Michael Hickner (Penn State), John Russell (Penn State), Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University), and Tracy Stuber (Getty Research Institute).

The workshop will take place August 9 – 13, 2021. Participants' round trip travel, shared lodging, shared meals, books, and all lab materials will be covered.

Plans are to conduct the workshop in person; however, should conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitate the shift to a virtual format, all sessions will be live-streamed and necessary instructional materials will be shipped in advance to participants. The decision about whether the workshop will be held in-person at Penn State or conducted virtually via Zoom or another digital platform will be made at the time applicants are notified of admission.

DEADLINE and SUBMISSION
Applications for Virtual/Material: Color/Pigment are due via email to color@psu.edu by 11:59 pm EST on Monday, December 14, 2020. Award notifications will be sent in late February.

ELIGIBILITY
Applicants should be PhD students in art history or a related discipline (e.g. archaeology, architectural history, visual studies). International students and students pursuing their PhD at institutions outside the U.S. are eligible and encouraged to apply. Interested students who do not anticipate being able to travel to Penn State to participate are encouraged to apply given the possibility that the workshop will be conducted virtually.

APPLICATION MATERIALS
1. Letter of Interest (2-3 pages), which should include an explanation of the value of this workshop for your current research
2. Dissertation prospectus or other relevant writing sample (20 pages maximum)
3. CV
4. One recommendation letter

The Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and the Cy Twombly Foundation have partnered to establish an emergency relief grant program, administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), that will provide $1,250,000 in aid to Tri-State non-salaried workers in the visual arts who have experienced financial hardship from lack of income or opportunity as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis. NYFA wishes to thank the Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation for being the first funder to contribute to the Tri-State Fund, following the announcement of the Fund.

The Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts will distribute one-time unrestricted cash grants of $2,000 each to freelance, contract, or non-salaried archivists, art handlers, artist/fine art photographer’s assistants, cataloguers, database specialists, digital assets specialists, image scanners/digitizers, and registrars.

In addition, this final cycle will also accept applications from freelance, contract, or non-salaried:
-Arts Educators
-Arts Publication Editors
-Arts Curators

All applicants must provide evidence of a minimum of three years (2017 to 2020) working as a freelance, contract or non-salaried cultural worker; documented loss of income, from canceled work or opportunities for the period of March 1, 2020 to December 14, 2020; and proof of currently living and working in the Tri-State area (NY, NJ & CT) between March 2020 to-November 2020.

After reviewing for completeness and documented losses of income, qualifying applicants will be selected for funding via a lottery process. Applicants will be notified on Friday, January 15, 2021.

Please visit the 'External Link' below to review all information available about this emergency grant program, including requirements and eligibility, application information, details on receiving funds and reporting, and access to the online application.

We seek applications from innovative Indigenous scholars in any discipline relevant to visual and/or print history to join the research team of the recently established Graphic Encounters research project based in the history department at La Trobe University. The project is dedicated to the study of Australian printmaking depicting Aboriginal Australians from ‘discovery’ to federation (1770-1901). This historical period encompasses an era of intercultural encounters imagined within the graphic medium of prints, from engraving to lithography. Concurrently the many techniques in image reproduction refined over these same decades. We seek to document particularly the production of prints featuring Aboriginal Australians and their recurrence and dissemination within a transnational web of print media and printmaking. The PhD project may focus on the cultural, social, economic, geographic, or other dimensions of colonial print production and circulation during the period, and it is a requirement of the scholarship that the funded work contributes to the aims of the Graphic Encounters: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality research project. Our aim is to curate a major travelling exhibition and develop an online gallery resource, as well as convene an international conference, research publications and commentaries to facilitate access to published and unpublished prints for the period up to 1901.

The project is an Australia Research Council Future Fellowship with Associate Professor Liz Conor as Chief Investigator, based in the History Department at La Trobe University.

Scholarship Value & Duration
One PhD scholarship is available for commencement in 2020 and will provide research training in Melbourne. Scholarship holders will be registered at La Trobe, where Dr Liz Conor will provide research supervision and training and where the recipient will have the opportunity to engage in the History Program’s research events and culture. The entitlements and obligations of the award will match the La Trobe University Postgraduate Research Scholarship. This includes a tax-free living allowance for a period of up to three years full-time with a remuneration of between $27,328 - $28,328 per annum. In addition applicants are encouraged to apply for the new Dennis McDermott Research Scholarship at La Trobe University, also dedicated for Indigenous students, a $10K p.a. top-up on the standard RTP rate. Applicants should have Australian permanent residency, an appropriate Honours 1 or high 2A (or equivalent) undergraduate degree, and a background in Australian history. Due to delays resulting from COVID-19, the successful applicant will commence when convenient to travel.

Eligibility
Applicants are invited from students identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. They must fulfil the criteria for PhD Admission and Scholarship at La Trobe. Applicants must have completed a Bachelor degree with First Class Honours or equivalent in history, cultural studies or a relevant discipline, and be intending to enrol full-time in an approved doctoral program at La Trobe.

How to Apply
Applicants should send a single Word document comprising a CV, the names and email addresses for two referees (please supply your referees with this form:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/658063/CARR-Confidential-Academic-Referee-Form.pdf) and a one page statement which outlines your experience, training and expertise relevant to this project and a 200-300 word summary of your proposed project, by EMAIL to Liz Conor,
l.conor@latrobe.edu.au. For discussions about suitable topics please also contact Liz Conor via email. Students currently completing Honours or Masters degrees should list academic results to date, and likely date for completion.

Due to delays resulting from COVID-19, the successful applicant will commence when convenient to travel, commencing either in the next year which the pandemic permits.

The Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grants provide support to doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholars from both the US and outside the US for research topics dedicated to the art and visual culture of the United States prior to 1980. The grants foster firsthand engagement with American artworks and art-historical resources; build networks for non-US-based scholars studying American art; and expand access to artworks, scholarly materials, and communities for US-based scholars studying American art in an international context.

Proposals are accepted from doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and senior scholars.

The grant program is administered by College Art Association (CAA), on behalf of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2021.

For more information about application guidelines and the application process, schedule, and checklist, please visit the 'External Link' below.