Arts Division Funding Opportunities: November-January 2015
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
The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF): Due December 1, 2015.
Provides outstanding visual artists from across the world a unique opportunity to
work with Smithsonian museums, research sites, collections, and scholars, so they
may conduct research that inspires new artwork. SARF Fellows spend one to two
months in residence at the Smithsonian immersed in its unparalleled collections and
multidisciplinary scholarly expertise, building connections between art, science,
history and culture. Amount: Up to $8000 for 2 months + travel.
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship: Due November 6, 2015. Multiple
fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum are an opportunity for a community of
scholars from around the world to use the Museum as a place for exchange,
research, and professional advancement. PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers,
and senior scholars are eligible to apply. Amount: $42,000 to 52,000.
Stanford Mellow Fellowship (Post-Doctoral): Due November 16, 2015. The
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities is a unique opportunity
for the best recent PhD recipients in the humanities to develop as scholars and
teachers. Fellows teach two courses per year in one of Stanford’s fifteen humanities
departments, and are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the program.
Accepting applications in: Art & Art History, English, East Asian Languages and
Cultures, Theater and Performing Arts, Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, and
Digital Humanities. Amount: $70,000.
Film & Digital Media
ITVS Diversity Development Fund: Due November 6, 2015. Provides research
and development funding to producers of color to develop single documentary
programs for public television. Producers must be U.S. citizens or legal residents.
Amount: $15,000.
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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.
Tribeca Film Institute: Due November 4, 2015. Tribeca All Access (Scripted
and Documentary) seeks feature-length narrative and documentary submissions
in development from established and emerging filmmakers whose team includes a
director, producer, screenwriter or developer from a community that is statistically
underrepresented in the film industry. Projects may be in any stage of development,
from treatment/screenplay to post-production. Projects of any genre and or budget
range are welcome to apply. Plus eligibility for our on-going alumni grants. Amount:
Variable.
Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Fund: Due November 4, 2015. Provides
grants and professional guidance in support of innovative and compelling narrative
features that offer a fresh take on scientific, mathematic and technological themes.
Project Status: For films in any stage, based anywhere. Amount: $75,000. Also due
November 4: TFI/ESPN Prize will award one annual grant of $30,000 to a featurelength work-in-progress documentary that presents sports, competition and
athleticism as a backdrop within a character-driven story.
Pacific Pioneer Fund for Emerging Filmmakers: Draft budget due to OSP by
November 13, 2015. To support emerging documentary filmmakers. The term
"emerging" is intended to denote a person committed to the craft of making
documentaries, who has demonstrated that commitment by several years -- but no
more than ten -- of practical film or video experience. External Deadline: December
1, 2015. Amount: Up to $10,000.
Howard Foundation Fellowship: Due November 15, 2015. These non-residential
fellowships target support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who
have achieved recognition for at least one major project. This year’s fields include:
Creative Non-Fiction, Literary Translation into English, Film Studies, and
Literary Studies. Howard Fellowships are intended primarily to provide artists,
scholars, and writers with time to complete their work. They are not intended for
publication subsidies, for equipment purchase, for preparation of exhibits, or to
support institutional programs. Amount: $33,000.
Academy Grant Programs: Draft budget due to OSP by December 1, 2015.
FilmWatch grants support curated screening programs at North America-based
film festivals, film societies and other film-related organizations. Targeted programs
include those that create culturally diverse viewing experiences, promote motion
pictures as an art form, provide a platform for underrepresented artists, and
cultivate new and dedicated audiences for theatrical film. Grants typically range
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from $5,000 to $30,000. FilmCraft grants support high-quality educational
programs that identify and empower future filmmakers from nontraditional
backgrounds. Targeted programs include those that encourage an appreciation of
film as both a vocation and an art form, and those that provide direct, hands-on
opportunities for participants to gain the filmmaking skills they need to tell their
stories. Grants typically range from $5,000 to $25,000. External deadline: December
15, 2015.
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.
Academy Film Scholars: Due January 31, 2016. These grants are awarded to
previously published individuals who are pursuing significant new works of film
scholarship. These grants fund research as well as academic and scholarly projects
that elevate both filmmaking and film scholarship. Projects must address cultural,
educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.
Those examining elements of the film industry that have been underrepresented in
the canon of film scholarship will be given priority. Two $25,000 grants are awarded
each year.
Music
Chamber Music Association Residency Partnership Grant: Internal Deadline
has passed. Contact me immediately if you are interested! The Residency
Partnership Program supports ensembles and presenters in building audiences for
classical/contemporary, jazz, and world chamber music through residency
projects. Funding is intended for activities that take place in community settings
and that are not part of a regular concert series. Activities may include, but are not
limited to, interactive or audience engagement programs in classrooms (preschool
through high school), libraries, hospitals, senior centers, or other community
venues. The program does not support music activities intended for college- or
conservatory-level music students. Projects must take place in the U.S. or its
territories. External deadline: November 6, 2015. Amount: $12,000.
ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize: Due November 15, 2015. The Award honors Dr.
Rudolf Nissim’s dedication to concert music and concert music creators was an
inspiration to his colleagues, and his generous bequest to the Foundation is a
reminder of his legacy in perpetuity. Open only to ASCAP members. The award will
be based on the significance and overall artistry and compositional elements of the
musical work or composition. Amount: $5,000.
Theater Arts
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Japan Foundation Performing Arts Grant: The internal deadline has passed.
Please contact me immediately if you are interested in applying! This program
is designed to provide financial assistance for non-profit organizations in the US and
Canada that aim to introduce Japanese performing arts to local audiences. PAJ
Touring Grants help present Japanese performing arts at multiple locations in the
United States and Canada, with an emphasis on locations outside major
metropolitan areas. PAJ Collaboration Grants help Japanese and American/Canadian
artists develop a new work, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture
when presented to American/Canadian audiences. The grants are made to nonprofit
organizations in the U.S. and Canada only. External deadline (regular mail): October
20, 2015. Amount: Variable (cost share required).
USArtists International: Draft budget to OSP by November 18, 2015. 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 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
National Science Foundation, Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science
Research (IBSS): Internal deadline has passed; please contact me immediately
if you are interested. This competition promotes the conduct of interdisciplinary
research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is
placed on support for research that involves researchers from multiple Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) disciplinary fields and that integrates
scientific theoretical approaches and methodologies from multiple SBE disciplinary
fields. Emphasis also is placed on the significance of expected intellectual
contributions that are likely to yield generalizable insights and information that will
enhance theoretical perspectives and advance basic knowledge and capabilities
across multiple SBE disciplinary fields. Although the IBSS competition will consider
any proposal that addresses a topic for which the proposal makes a compelling case
that the research will enhance broader theoretical understanding across multiple
social and behavioral science fields, social and behavioral science researchers are
especially encouraged to submit proposals for research on one of the following
three broadly defined topics: Population Change; Sources and Consequences of
Disparities; and Technology, New Media, and Social Networks. External Deadline:
December 1, 2015. Estimated $10,500,000 to support 12-16 awards.
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
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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)
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST):
Internal deadline has passed. Please contact me immediately if you are
interested. ITEST is a program that promotes PreK-12 student interests and
capacities to participate in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) and information and communications technology (ICT) workforce of the
future. To achieve this objective, ITEST supports the development, implementation,
and selective spread of innovative strategies for engaging students in experiences
that: (1) increase student awareness of STEM and ICT careers; (2) motivate students
to pursue the education necessary to participate in those careers; and/or (3)
provide students with technology-rich experiences that develop their knowledge of
related content and skills (including critical thinking skills) needed for entering the
STEM workforce. ITEST projects may adopt an interdisciplinary focus on multiple
STEM domains, focus on a single domain, or focus on one or more sub-disciplines
within a domain. ITEST projects must involve students, and may also include
teachers. The ITEST program is especially interested in broadening participation of
students from traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM fields and related
education and workforce domains. Projects that actively engage business and
industry partners to better ensure that PreK-12 experiences foster the knowledge
and skill-sets needed for emerging STEM-related occupations are strongly
encouraged. ITEST supports two project types: Strategies projects and SPrEaD
(Successful Project Expansion and Dissemination) projects. Strategies projects
support the design, implementation, and testing of innovative educational
experiences that support the objectives of the ITEST program. SPrEaD projects
support the wider and broader testing and dissemination of promising strategies to
generate evidence and greater understanding of contextual factors that operate to
enhance, moderate, or constrain anticipated project impacts. All ITEST projects may
include activities designed to inform judgments regarding the feasibility of
implementing strategies in typical learning environments associated with formal
classrooms, out-of-school settings, or combinations of such environments. The
ITEST program also invites proposals for an ITEST Resource Center to provide
technical assistance to projects and provide assistance with the outreach activities
of the ITEST program. External deadline is November 13. Amount: Up to $1.2 million
for 3 years and $2 million for 5 years.
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral
Fellowship: Due November 4, 2015. For scholars who are preparing or
augmenting their PhD dissertation research for publication, or who are embarking
on new research projects. Amount: $50,000. See above link for additional Chinese
Studies grants, such as the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies
Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Collections: Draft budget due to OSP by November 13, 2015. SCHC helps cultural
institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of
humanities materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation
measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful life of
collections.Libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the
country are responsible for collections of books and manuscripts, photographs,
sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art,
and historical objects that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide
opportunities for life-long learning in the humanities.External Deadline: December
1, 2015. Amount: Up to $40,000 for Planning and $350,000 for Implementation.
Huntington Library Long and Short-Term Fellowships (multiple): Due
November 15, 2015. Research projects (which can include The Dibner Program in
the History of Science offers historians of science and technology the opportunity to
study in the Burndy Library and to work in the other resources for the history of
science and technology at the Huntingtontravel to British libraries) should align
with the Huntington Library collections: Middle Ages, Renaissance, 19th- and 20thcentury literature, British drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western
America, and California. The Art Collections contain notable British and American
paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art reference library. The Dibner
Program in the History of Science offers historians of science and technology the
opportunity to study in the Burndy Library and to work in the other resources for
the history of science and technology at the Huntington. Amount: Up to $50,000 for
one year; $3000/month for short-term.
American Association of University Women American Fellowships for
untenured professors: Due November 15, 2015. Summer/Short-Term
Research Publication Grants provide funds for women college and university
faculty and independent researchers to prepare research for publication. Time must
be available for eight consecutive weeks of final writing and editing in response to
issues raised in critical reviews. These grants can be awarded to both tenure-track
and part-time faculty, and new and established researchers. The grants are designed
to assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and other promotions. Amount: $6,000
for 8 weeks. The primary purpose of the Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship
is to increase the number of women in tenure-track faculty positions and to
promote equality for women in higher education. This fellowship is designed to
assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and further promotions by enabling her to
spend a year pursuing independent research. Amount: $30,000.
Brown University Howard Fellowship: Due November 15, 2015. Nonresidential
Howard Fellowships are intended primarily to provide artists, scholars, and writers
with time to complete their work. They are not intended for publication subsidies,
for equipment purchase, for preparation of exhibits, or to support institutional
programs. The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career
individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project.
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Fellowships are offered in a five-year sequence of fields. 2016-17 Fields: Creative
Non-Fiction, Literary Translation into English, Film Studies, and Literary Studies.
Amount: $33,000.
Stanford Mellow Fellowship (Post-Doctoral): Due November 16, 2015. The
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities is a unique opportunity
for the best recent PhD recipients in the humanities to develop as scholars and
teachers. Fellows teach two courses per year in one of Stanford’s fifteen humanities
departments, and are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the program.
Accepting applications in: Art & Art History, English, East Asian Languages and
Cultures, Theater and Performing Arts, Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, and
Digital Humanities. Amount: $70,000.
American Council of Learned Societies Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation
Program in Buddhist Studies: Due November 17, 2015. Research Fellowships
provide scholars time free from teaching and other responsibilities in order that
they devote full-time to research and writing on the project proposed. A fellowship
period, during which no teaching, commissioned research on other topics, or
administrative duties are allowed, may last up to nine months. It may be separated
into two periods, each of which must be a minimum of three months. See site for
additional fellowships including postdoctoral and collaborative. Amount: $70,000.
Echoing Green Fellowship: Due November 17, 2015. Echoing Green’s Fellowship
Programs will offer more than $4.6 million in seed-stage funding and support this
year to emerging leaders working to bring about positive social change. Priority
Areas: Global Fellowship, Black Male Achievement, and Climate Fellowship. Amount:
Variable.
National Science Foundation - The Partnerships for Innovation: Building
Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC): Limited Submission Internal Deadline of
November 17, 2015, 5 p.m. Please contact your Research Grant Coordinator for
complete information if you are interested. This program supports academe-industry
partnerships which are led by an interdisciplinary academic research team
collaborating with a least one industry partner. These partnerships focus on the
integration of technologies into a specified human-centered service system with the
potential to achieve transformational change, satisfying a real need by making an
existing service system smart(er) or by spurring the creation of an entirely new
smart service system. Service systems are socio-technical configurations of people,
technologies, organizations, and information designed to create value by fulfilling
the needs of those participating in the system.These projects require additional
effort to integrate the technology into a real service system, incorporating human
factors considerations to assure the system’s efficacy. The research tasks in turn
might spawn additional discoveries inspired by this interaction of humans with the
technology. Submission Information: Proposals should be sent to Quentin
Williams (qwilliam@ucsc.edu) with a cc to Michele Chamberlin
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(michambe@ucsc.edu). Internal preproposals should follow the format of the LOI,
so that if your team is selected, you will be nearly ready to submit the LOI.
A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art: Letter of intent due
November 20, 2015. We provide resources to artists who demonstrate artistic
excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. We fund socially
engaged projects in which art is a catalyst for social change; projects that feature
artists in leadership roles; dialogue-based projects that emphasize sustainable
partnerships with communities; projects in which artists engage community
members as equal partners; projects in which co-creation with non-artists is part of
the process. Amount: $20,000.
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; field work; 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 24, 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
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
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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.
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program: Due December 1, 2015. SI
Fellowships are awarded annually to scholars wishing to conduct independent
study or research at one or more of the Smithsonian's 19 units and research centers.
Postdoctoral and Senior Researcher may apply for 3-12 months. Amount: $48,000
for 1 year.
CEC ArtsLink Award: Due December 3, 2015. Accepts applications from
contemporary and traditional creative artists working in the performing, design,
media, literary, and visual arts, as well as arts managers at independent, nonprofit,
and government organizations working in these artistic disciplines. U.S. artists and
arts managers seeking to collaborate with international colleagues in eligible
countries are encouraged to apply. Eligible countries are Afghanistan, Albania,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan,
Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Moldova, Montenegro, Palestine,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Amount: $5,000.
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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