Previously Announced Arts Division Funding Opportunities: November –
December 2015 ONLY
Don’t forget to review grants & fellowships for multiple departments at the end of this
document!
Important information regarding internal deadlines: If the grant requires that
you submit under the auspices of a 501(c)(3) organization (including fiscal
sponsorship), UCSC now requires that you comply with internal deadlines that I
note on this list. Contact your Research Grant Coordinator (scmoore@ucsc.edu) and
the Office of Sponsored Project (kwisuri@ucsc.edu and sziegler@ucsc.edu) prior to
the listed internal deadline to ensure compliance.
Art
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant: Due December 15, 2015.
Individual Support Grants to painters, sculptors and printmakers who have been
creating mature art for at least 20 years and who are in current financial need.
Students are not eligible. Amount: Variable.
HAVC
See grants for multiple departments.
Film & Digital Media
Fledgling Fund: Rolling application period open; Draft budget due (internal)
to OSP 10 days prior to application. Grants support outreach and engagement for
social issue documentary film and other storytelling projects that have the potential
to inspire positive social change around issues that affect the most vulnerable.
Fledgling has an open rolling grant application process. Amount: $25,000.
Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies: Due December 6, 2015. The John W. Kluge
Center at the Library of Congress announces a new fellowship in Digital Studies to
examine the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture and international
relations using the Library’s collections and resources. Open to scholars from all
disciplines. Ph.D. or other advanced terminal degree strongly preferred. Amount:
$4,200/month for up to 11 months.
Music
See grants for multiple departments.
Theater Arts
USArtists International: Internal deadlines have passed. Contact me
immediately if you are interested. USArtists International (USAI) is committed to
ensuring that the impressive range of expression of the performing arts in the
United States is represented abroad. The program contributes to the creative
development of American artists by providing opportunities for the exchange of
ideas and practices with their colleagues in other countries, and helps to sustain
their careers through exposure to new audiences and access to the international
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marketplace. Through USAI, grants are available to American dance, music and
theater ensembles and solo performers that have been invited to perform at
significant international festivals and performing arts markets anywhere in the
world outside of the United States and its territories. External Deadline: December
4, 2015. Amount: $15,000.
Digital Arts and New Media
Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies: Due December 6, 2015. The John W. Kluge
Center at the Library of Congress announces a new fellowship in Digital Studies to
examine the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture and international
relations using the Library’s collections and resources. Open to scholars from all
disciplines. Ph.D. or other advanced terminal degree strongly preferred. Amount:
$4,200/month for up to 11 months.
Multiple Departments (Grants)
National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grants: Draft
budget due to OSP by November 23, 2015. Collaborative Research Grants support
interpretive humanities research undertaken by two or more collaborating scholars,
for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is
available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants;
project-related travel; fieldwork; applications of information technology; and
technical support and services. External Deadline: December 9, 2015. Amount: Up to
$100,000/year.
UC Humanities Research Institute Grants for 2016-17: Draft budget due to OSP
by November 25, 2015. External Deadline: December 11, 2015. Short-term
Collaborative Research Residencies: Hosts residents at our facilities at UC Irvine.
Residencies are available for a team of at least two and no more than ten residents
representing any discipline or field in the humanities and humanistic social sciences,
or in conjunction with scholars, artists, scientists, and experts across various
disciplines. In larger groups, participation by faculty from a range of UC campuses,
disciplines, and levels of career development is required. Residencies may run up to
two weeks. This program does not provide course buyouts; however, the grant will
cover reasonable costs of relocation to UCHRI. External deadline: December 11,
2015. Fall 2016 Residential Research Group on “Queer Hemisphere: América
Queer” invites individual applications from faculty, post-docs and graduate
students across the disciplines interested in contributing to the theme. This
residency aims to cultivate an interdisciplinary, multilingual dialogue between
Latin@ America queer theory/sexuality studies and US women/queer of color
feminisms. UCHRI provides replacement costs to the faculty division, and faculty are
ordinarily required to contribute sabbatical credits. Winter 2017 Residential
Research Group on Queer of Color Formations and Translocal Spaces in
Europe invites individual applications from faculty, post-docs and graduate
students across the disciplines interested in contributing to the theme. Queer People
of Color (QPoC) positionalities are a valuable yet underexplored lens through which
to rethink the racial and colonial imaginaries and material conditions of subjects
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and space in Europe. UCHRI provides replacement costs to the faculty division, and
faculty are ordinarily required to contribute sabbatical credits. Conference Grants:
For conferences focused on sharing scholarly research findings to be held on UC
campuses or in public venues. Amount: $10,000. Research Seminar Grants: For
research seminars for small groups of UC faculty and advanced graduate students to
engage in intensive study of topics chosen by the participants. Seminars may be
from a variety of fields in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Amount:
$4,000. Multicampus Faculty Working Groups: Awards provide financial
resources for University of California faculty to support research collaboration and
communication within the extended range of humanities disciplines. Working
Groups should engage significant research questions and push the frontiers of
knowledge production in the humanities or between the humanities and other fields
or modes of inquiry. Amount: $15,000. Please note: Many of these grants allow you to
apply for additional funding for a graduate student.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellowship: Due December
7, 2015. Provides independent artists and art collectives with a demonstrated
commitment to applying their creative work to the public sphere up to $100,000
over two years along with access to opportunities for professional advancement.
During the 2016 and 2017 fellowship cycles, the thematic frame is racial justice
through the lens of mass incarceration.
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