The Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas offers a residential fellowship program as a part of its mission to become a major research center on modern and contemporary drawing. The program fosters the highest level of scholarship and makes possible rich, interdisciplinary, object-based conversations on the drawing medium’s history, theory, criticism, and practice.

Fellows receive a stipend to cover living and other expenses incurred during the fellowship, and they are housed in a fully furnished apartment within a recently refurbished historic bungalow on the Menil campus. They are also assigned a workspace at the Drawing Institute to use for the duration of the fellowship and have access to the collections and archives, the staff and library at the Menil, as well as to local institutional libraries.

We are currently requesting applications for the Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Applications are due to mdi@menil.org by December 16, 2022; all applicants will be notified of the Menil’s decision by late January 2023.

More information about our fellowship program can be found at https://www.menil.org/drawing-institute/scholars.