Grants & Fellowships for Research, Making Art and Travel!

Greetings all!

I’m back from the conference in New York and it was great! It was also great to see a couple Mira’s List fans there. Thanks for attending, those of you who went to the CLMP Conference and I hope you learned some enlightening things about the publishing industry. So upward and onward! We have a couple interviews coming soon but in the meantime, here are a few grants and fellowships for you to take a look at!

Cheers,
Mirabee

(ARTISTS) Emergency Assistance Program—The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation: The Emergency Assistance Program provides interim financial assistance to qualified artists whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need. The program does not consider requests for dental work, chronic situations, capital improvements, or projects of any kind; nor can it consider situations resulting from general indebtedness or lack of employment. The maximum amount of this grant is $10,000; an award of $4,000 is typical. To be eligible, an artist must be able to demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten years in a mature phase of his or her work. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, or printmaking. Please visit http://gottliebfoundation.org/grants/emergency-grant for more information. Deadline: 12/31/12.

(ARTISTS) Individual Support Grants—Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation:
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. Twelve grants are awarded each year. Applications are reviewed by a panel of five professionals in the arts who have no affiliation with the foundation. Please visit http://gottliebfoundation.org/grants/individual-grants for more information and to request an application by mail. Deadline: 12/15/10

(ALL & SCHOLARS) New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Grant: Massachusetts Historical Society: The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of 18 major cultural agencies, will offer at least 11 awards in 2011–2012. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Each itinerary must include at least three different member institutions, and include at least two weeks at each of these. For more information about the Consortium’s research grants, please check the NERFC web site: www.nerfc.org, or contact Kate Viens, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02215 (fellowships@masshist.org) or 617-646-0568. NERFC application deadline: February 1, 2011.

(ART HISTORIANS & SCHOLARS) Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowships—Virginia Commonwealth University: The Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowships are awarded to up to 20 individuals who wish to attend the 4th biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, "God is Beautiful; He Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture," October 29-31, 2011 at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Fellowships cover the cost of roundtrip travel to Doha, lodging and meals during the symposium, and special events and excursions. The fellowships are intended to enable junior and senior scholars at all levels to attend the symposium; preference will be given to applicants from diverse backgrounds with long-standing research interests in Islamic art and architecture. To apply, please submit an application form, a one-paragraph statement of interest and a current CV on the website,
www.islamicartdoha.org by February 1, 2011. Fellows will be notified by May 1, 2011. Please direct any questions to mabrown@vcu.edu. Deadline: 02/02/11

(GRAD. STUDENTS & SCHOLARS) Residential Research Grant—University of Wisconsin--Madison: The Friends of the University of Wisconsin—Madison Libraries (FOL) is pleased to offer several one month residential grants-in-aid, for research in the humanities in the university’s Memorial Library. The Library’s collections include (among other fields): History of science from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Pseudo science and medical and scientific quackery. The largest American collection of avant-garde “Little Magazines.” Scandinavian and Germanic history and literature. Dutch post-Reformation theology and church history. French political pamphlets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Applicants should have Ph.D. Foreign scholars or graduate students who are ABD are also eligible. For more information, see http://giving.library.wisc.edu/friends/grant-in-aid.shtml, or FOL, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Rm. 990, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706, or 608-265-2505; E-mail: friends@library.wisc.edu. Deadline: 02/01/11

(MUSICIANS & ARTISTS) The Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship for study in Paris: The Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship is a private grant awarded annually to up to four graduate and post-graduate American students in the visual fine arts (painting, graphic design, print-making, sculpture, photography) and music (composition, instrumental or vocal performance). The scholarship is not intended for research in art history, or musicology, nor for dance or theatre.
Successful candidates propose a unique and detailed project related to their study which requires a one-year residency in Paris. As this project should include enrollment in a recognized French art school or music conservatory, it is strongly suggested that the candidate establish a significant contact with a teacher or institution prior to arriving in France and to show evidence of this contact in his/her application dossier. For more info, go to: http://www.feusa.org/en/culture/harriet-hale-woolley-scholarship

Calling All Media Artists, Printmakers, Writers, Artists, Scholars and Everyone Else!

(ARTISTS) SOHO2O Gallery Chelsea / Artists Residency Program: SOHO2O Gallery Chelsea is a non-profit artist run gallery that has been promoting the work of women artists since 1973 through gallery exhibitions and public programming. As part of our continued commitment to the arts we are introducing a 3 month studio residency program for visual artists.

What the residency offers:

• 4 three-month studio residencies available. Jan-March / April – June / July – Sept/ Oct – Dec. 2011
• The studio is located within SOHO20 Gallery. It is a private studio space that measures 26x9 feet. The studio offers 13 foot ceilings and over 40 feet of workable wall space.
• Access to the studios 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. *Occasionally artist will need to coordinate use with scheduled gallery events.
• Opportunities to present works to curators, critics, arts professionals, and the general public.
• Artists are encouraged to present finished work to the public near the end of the residency with a gallery-sponsored reception.
• Application is open to both men and women artists.

Note that the studio residency at 547 W. 27th Street is for work use only. There is absolutely no living space allowed.

Eligibility
All applicants must be residents of the United States or have a valid visa not expiring before the end of the program, 18 years or older, may not be enrolled in any degree seeking program and must be able to demonstrate need for a studio. Applicants may not be a resident artist in another studio program at the same time as the 2011 SOHO2O Studio residency. Artists working in all mediums are invited to apply.

Deadlines: January - March or April – June 2011 Residency Saturday, November 20, 2010, July – September or October – December 2011 Residency Saturday, May 28, 2011For more info, go to: http://www.soho20gallery.com/New/residency.html

(PRINTMAKERS) A Call for Entry—Wheat Farm Press Print Exchange 1:1: Wheat Farm Press is establishing a quarterly print exchange, and juried publication of prints. The goal of this exchange is to promote the development of the finest artistic ideas and talents in contemporary printmaking. They are looking for artists at any stage in their artistic lives to dedicate time to the development of an edition of eleven prints. They are looking for people who are passionately dedicated to printmaking, who don’t have access to a press, who have regular access, who print by hand, those who collage, make precise editions, make variable editions, those who can afford the time to work on prints every day, and those who sneak in time whenever possible to develop imagery.

For the creation of an edition of eleven prints you will receive ten unique prints in return from artists all over the world. One print from each edition will be archived permanently at Wheat Farm Press as a record of what is being produced within the print community at this period in time. To learn more about this project, go to: www.wheatfarmpress.com

(ALL) The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts: offers up to fifty juried residencies per year to working artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are awarded to visual artists, writers, composers, interdisciplinary artists, and arts or arts education scholars. Residencies are available for two-, four-, six-, or eight-weeks stays. Each resident receives a $100 stipend per week, free housing, and a separate studio. The Center does not discriminate on the basis of disability, sex, age, race, religion, or national origin. For more info, go to: http://www.khncenterforthearts.org/residency.html March 1 is the next deadline for residencies to take place the following July – December.

(PRINTMAKERS) The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP): in Norwalk, CT invites interested artists to apply for a two-week residency fellowship to take place in March 2011, at our well equipped studio. This fellowship offers the artist a chance to realize printmaking projects by providing time, privacy, and equipment as well as a creative, supportive environment. http://www.contemprints.org/content.php?navid=3&cid=185 Application Deadline: November 1, 2010

(WRITERS & ARTISTS) Chicago Winter Art Residency: Writers and artists of all disciplines are welcome to participate this winter in six day residencies in the accessible and vibrant Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago. Each day will offer time to write, research and an opportunity to communicate your experiences and challenges of being a creative individual with others. Fellowships of up to $300 are awarded based on letter of intent or writing samples and are not based on financial need. Costs are $750 without fellowship and $450 with a fellowship.

Private accommodations with bath, writing desk, continental breakfast and light lunch are provided daily. Two salons are held Friday and Saturday evenings to foster discussion and interaction with Chicago artists and writers. Fellowship Deadline: December 1, 2010. For more information contact: Kapra Fleming 773-235-1408, www.chicagoartretreats.org.

(ARTISTS) Flux Factory Residencies in NYC: Flux Factory is an artist-run not-for-profit organization that provides residencies and work spaces for 14 artists. They organize ambitious group exhibitions in their gallery, while doing projects as a collective in other institutions in the US and abroad.

Their building includes a gallery, a co-working office, a screen printing lab, and a wood shop. It also has a shared kitchen, library, and lots of great people. Residents benefit from an engaged and creative community, studio visits, monthly art salons, and exposure to a large community of creative collaborators who both maintain personal practices and also develop projects together. All residents have a voice in planning programming and sustaining the organization as a whole. Residency periods are 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 months, and each artist must find their own funding for their residency, though Flux Factory can certainly help with this process. For more info, go here: http://www.fluxfactory.org/

(ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, CURATORS) The Henry Moore Institute Fellowships: The Henry Moore Instituteinvites applications for the following fellowship programmes:

Research Fellowships are intended for artists, scholars and curators, working on historic and contemporary sculpture using the Institute's library, archive of sculptors' papers and the collection of Leeds Art Gallery. Up to 4 fellows will be given the opportunity to spend a month in Leeds to develop their own research. With access to our resources and an on-going dialogue with the Institute staff, fellows are free to pursue their own interests in a supportive and stimulating environment.

Senior Fellowships are intended to give established scholars (working on any aspect of sculpture) time and space to develop a research project free from their usual work commitments. Up to 2 senior fellowships, for periods of between 4 to 6 weeks will be offered.

Both fellowships provide accommodation, travel expenses and a per diem. For more information on the Henry Moore Institute research fellowships please visit: http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research Deadline is 10 January 2011.

For further information or to apply for a fellowship please contact:
Kirstie Gregory – Research Programme Assistant
Henry Moore Institute, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AH.
T: + 44 (0) 113 246 7467
E: kirstie@henry-moore.org

The Institute is open year round, free of charge and showcases the best in international sculpture, both historical and contemporary. It also runs a world-class programme of research and events, and is home to the country's leading sculpture archive.

(ALL) EMPAC Open Call for Artist in Residence Proposals: Troy, N.Y. – Since 2005, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) has established a vibrant residency program that has hosted over 40 artists and their collaborators, spanning theater, dance, music, video, and installation. While EMPAC will continue its open call residency program, EMPAC is pleased to announce four additional focused initiatives:

‐ Audio Production / Post‐Production
For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works,
documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task
involving microphones, speakers, consoles and computers.
‐ Creative Research
Provides artists, writers, and theorists with the opportunity to
conduct research over extended periods of time (minimum six weeks).
‐ Dance / Theater
To rehearse, workshop or finalize a production. Provides a group of
up to six individuals a two‐week rehearsal period in a 3,300 sq. ft.
black box space with full production support.
‐ Video Production / Post‐Production
For multiple camera shoots, documentation of a performance,
development of multichannel video projection, digital video post‐production,
or any project involving HD video cameras, computers, and projectors.

EMPAC’s unique facilities offer four major venues including a Concert Hall, Theater, and two black box
Studios, in addition to artists in residence studios, and a state of the art infrastructure.
To apply, please include a letter of intent, a project description, a resume or CV for all major
collaborators, as well as works, samples, and other supporting materials. Proposals are reviewed by
EMPAC curators four times a year. Upcoming reviews will take place on October 15, January 14, April 15, and July 15. In general, residencies are scheduled six months to one year in advance. For more info, go to: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/residencies/artist/

(ARTISTS) Transart Institute MFA Creative Practice program Scholarships: The scholarships provide a reduction in tuition from 10 to 50%. More information on scholarships can be found on the Transart Institute website: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Admissions.html TRANSART INSTITUTE offers an international low-residency MFA program for working artists in a highly individualized format. The innovative program consists of three intensive summer residencies with lectures, workshops, critiques, seminars, performances and exhibitions in Europe and two shorter winter residencies in New York. In the four semesters between residencies, students create their own course of study realizing individual art and research projects with the support of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors wherever they work and live. General information: www.transartinstitute.org For specific information please contact Selina Heaton, Administrative Manager: info@transartinstitute.org

(ALL) ARTErra- Artistic Rural Residence in Portugal: ARTErra is an artist residency located in Lobão da Beira, a village in PORTUGAL, near Tondela, the district of Viseu. They offer two distinct spaces: the house where residents eat, rest, and gather together and the "creation yard," with different work places, ateliers, studios, blackbox, documentation center and peaceful gardens. Public presentations can be provided thanks to a partnership with City Hall. Please visit their blog at http://arterra-residencias.blogspot.com/ email: arterra.geral@gmail.com

Your application must contain the following elements:

- Curriculum Vitae;
- Portfolio, videos, photos , music...;
- Description of the project to be undertaken at ARTERRA, including the project's objectives, needs and expectations of residence ,work methodologies,and all the details necessary to understand the proposal;
- Ideal dates and time for the residence;
- Complementary information (needs for meals, number of persons involved, technical requirements, work characteristics and other additional information relevant to the work process).

***FYI: I don't know a thing about this place---if it costs money or if it's free and their site is in
Portuguese so make sure you turn your translation option on so you can read about this intriguing new residency in Portugal!

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS FOR ARTISTS, CARTOONISTS, SCHOLARS, RESEARCHERS & MORE!

Greetings everyone,

Here are some upcoming deadlines for grants and fellowships. I hope you also check out the recent interview I did with writer and activist Michael McColly. Another great interview is on the way very soon. In the meantime, check out these opportunities...by the way, sorry once again formatting weirdness...I'm copying and pasting from my Word doc and things get funky when I do that.

(ALL) The Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences $1000 Award: $1000 grant for any creative project. This is a pretty simple grant. Here's the deal: you write a 500 word paragraph, stating what you'd like to do with $1000 and they will consider your creative project. They accept these short proposals every month. Check them out: http://awesomefoundation.org.

(COMIC BOOK ARTISTS) Jay Kennedy Scholarship: The annual Jay Kennedy Scholarship, in memory of the late King Features editor, was funded by an initial $100,000 grant from the Hearst Foundation/King Features Syndicate and additional generous donations from Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman, Patrick McDonnell and many other prominent cartoonists. Submissions are adjudicated by a panel of top cartoonists and an award is given to the best college cartoonist. The recipient is feted at the annual NCS Reuben Awards Convention attended by many of the world’s leading cartoonists. Applicants must be college students in the United States, Canada or Mexico that will be in their Junior or Senior year of college during the 2010-2011 academic year. Applicants do not have to be art majors to be eligible for this scholarship. Please visit the website for more info: http://www.reuben.org/ncsf/scholarship/. DEADLINE: ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY FEBRUARY 12, 2010!

(KANSAS ARTISTS) Rocket Grants/Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas: With support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art are partnering to fuel the dynamism of our region’s art ecology by providing direct support for innovative, experimental, artist-driven, and artist-centered projects. Rocket Grants will fund projects that exist outside of established institutions, occur outside of traditional forms of support, challenge traditional methods of production or presentation, add energy and diversity to the field of arts activity in our area, and provide opportunities for the creative growth of those involved. Grants will provide up to $4000 support for selected projects, with a maximum of $40,000 to be awarded in 2010.

See http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/programs/rocket-grants.shtml for more information and for application materials. Applications will be accepted from artists, curators, collectives, collaboratives, partnerships, and artist‐run spaces residing within an 80 mile radius of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Although all projects funded must include a primary component that is visual in nature, supported projects may also include performance, film, video, new media, social practice and

interdisciplinary projects. Performing artists are eligible to apply if their work includes a strong

visual component or involves meaningful collaboration with a visual artist or artists. Deadline: 04/02/10.

(TEXAS ARTISTS) Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue is now accepting applications for the Artadia Awards 2010 Houston from all visual artists living and working in Houston, Harris County, Texas. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all media and at any point in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Awardees will be selected in the spring of 2010 through Artadia’s two-tiered jury process. This is Artadia’s fifth awards cycle in Houston. For eligibility requirements, info session dates, and to access the web-based application, please visit: www.artadia.org. Deadline: 03/01/10.

(ARTISTS) Joyce Fellowship: Americans for the Arts is pleased to announce applications for Americans for the Arts' Professional Development Fund for Emerging Arts Leaders of Color. A total of five Joyce Fellows from the Great Lakes region (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) will be selected to participate in this program in 2010. Fellows will receive stipends of $3,000 to support their attendance at the 2010 Americans for the Arts 50th Anniversary Summit/Annual Convention, 2010 National Arts Marketing Project Conference, and 2011 Arts Advocacy Day. In addition, fellows will have special opportunities to meet field leaders, connect with mentors, and receive individualized career coaching. Support for this program is provided by the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation. Eligibility information and application materials can be found at www.americansforthearts.org/networks/emerging_leaders/009.asp. Deadline: 03/01/10.

(WRITERS/SCHOLARS) Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships: The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer about 30 research fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011, made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society also offers Short-Term Fellowships, and participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. For more information about the Society’s research fellowships please visit our web site, www.masshist.org/fellowships, or contact Conrad E. Wright (fellowships@masshist.org), 617-646-0512. Application deadlines: MHS Short-Term fellowships, March 1, 2010.

MONEY FOR TRAVEL, FELLOWSHIPS, AND MORE

Some of the following opportunities are from Pen America and CAA (College Art Association), both great resources to check out when you have the time!

(WOMEN) American Association of University Women International Fellowships: International Fellowships up to $30,000 are awarded for full-time study or research in the United States to women who are not United States citizens or permanent residents. Both graduate and postgraduate study at accredited institutions are supported. Several of fellowships are available for study outside of the U.S. for members of the International Federation of University women. See web site for more details. Deadline December 1, 2009. See website for details: www.aauw.org.

(WOMEN) American Association of University Women Career Development Grants Career Development Grants offer up to $12,000 to women who hold a bachelor's degree and are preparing to advance their careers, change careers, or re-enter the work force. Special consideration is given to women of color, and women pursuing their first advanced degree or credentials in nontraditional fields. See web site for more details. Deadline Dec. 15, 2009.

(CHILD. BOOK WRITERS/ILLUSTRATORS) Research Fellowship: Children's Literature Research Collections, Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Collection Memorial Fellowship , University of Minnesota, 113 Andersen Library, 222 21st Avenue, South, Minneapolis, MN 5545. The Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Collection Memorial Fellowship provides $1,500 to a talented aspiring writer and/or illustrator of children's books who wishes to use the Kerlan Collection for furthering his or her artistic development. Special consideration is given to those for whom it would be difficult to finance the visit. Write or see web site (http://www.special.lib.umn.edu) for more details and application. Deadline December 31, 2009.

(WOMEN) Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund: The Fund provides grants of up to $1,500 to U.S. or Canadian women poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers "whose work addresses women's concerns or speaks for peace and justice from a feminist perspective." Application fee is $20. Two application deadlines each year: December 31 (art and fiction) and June 30 (nonfiction and poetry). Send SASE to Susan Pliner, Executive Director, at above address for application. P.O. Box 309, Wilton, NH 0308. **Sorry, no website for this one. They prefer snail mail.

(ARTISTS/STUDENTS) Travel Grants to CAA Conference: CAA offers a couple travel grants so artists and students can attend their annual conference. The first is a $150 grant awarded to a limited number of advanced PhD and MFA graduate students as partial reimbursement of expenses for travel to the 2010 Annual Conference in Chicago. To qualify for the grant, students must be current CAA members. For more information, check the CAA website: http://www.collegeart.org/travelgrants/. The second award is an International Member Conference Travel Grant of $500, presented to a limited number of artists or scholars from outside the United States as partial reimbursement of travel expenses to the upcoming Chicago CAA Conference.

(POETS) Jenny McKean Moore Program: George Washington University, Department of English, 801 22nd Street, NW, Suite 760, Washington, D.C. 20052. The Jenny McKean Moore Program at George Washington University engages a poet to teach two semesters at the university (a tuition-free community workshop and a class to GWU students) at a salary of approximately $55,000. The candidate must have been published by a well-regarded press and demonstrated a commitment to teaching. SASE with writing sample and resume must accompany application. The visiting lecturer must live in or near Washington, D.C., during the academic year (late August to early May). Apply to Professor Jeffrey Cohen, at above address. Deadline to be announced.

(WRITERS) Poets & Writers, Writers Exchange Program
The Writers Exchange Program is designed to encourage a sharing of works and resources among emerging writers nationwide. A poet and a fiction writer from a designated state are chosen annually. Each receives a $500 honorarium and gives readings and meets with the literary community in New York City during October. All related travel and lodging expenses and a daily stipend are covered. See web site for annual state. Deadline December 1, 2009. Guidelines and applications available online: http://www.pw.org.

(ARTISTS) Proposals for Artist Multiples: The Present Group, a quarterly art subscription service, seeks proposals from artists for projects that are reproducible in intent. We are looking for projects that will result in a limited edition, artist multiple, or a single work that consists of multiple parts. Every year TPG subscribers receive limited edition works from four different contemporary artists. A $500 honorarium is awarded to each season’s artist. For more information please visit: www.thepresentgroup.com, to download full submission guidelines: http://www.thepresentgroup.com/TPG-submissions.pdf. Deadline November 9, 2009.

(ARTISTS) International Career Development Grant: ARTWORKinternational, Inc. is offering a $12,000 Artist Business Career Development Grant. Uniquely, the Artist Business Career Development Grant (or ABCD Grant) offers unrestricted support to visual artists by placing priority on advancing the grantee's career. While the granting period extends over one year, the continued benefits are exponential, continuing throughout the artist's lifetime. ARTWORKinternational, Inc. has worked with the most prestigious art venues throughout the world, including prominent art publications, contemporary curators, critics, collectors, and dealers. The $12,000 grant is open to visual artists worldwide. Deadline December 31, 2009.

(WRITERS/SCHOLARS) Winterthur Research Fellowship: Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, a museum, library, and garden that supports the study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2010-11. Winterthur offers fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars to support research in material culture and other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowships include 4-9 month NEH fellowships, 1-2 semester dissertation fellowships, and 1-2 month short-term fellowships. Fellows use the library collections, including printed books, manuscripts and images, searchable at www.winterthur.org/research/library_resources.asp. They may conduct research in the museum collection, which includes artifacts made or used in America to 1860. Fellows reside in a furnished stone farmhouse. For information and to apply visit www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp or e-mail Rosemary T. Krill at rkrill@winterthur.org. Deadline is January 15, 2010.

(PERFORMING ARTISTS) Travel Grants
The Theatre Communications Group is accepting applications to the New Generations — Future Collaborations program, which awards unrestricted travel grants of up to $6,000 to theaters and individual theater professionals to enable them to collaborate and share ideas with their colleagues abroad. Applications will be accepted from theater professionals and theater companies wishing to share ideas and techniques and/or collaborate with colleagues from around the world. Grants will support unrestricted international travel by theater professionals working in all aspects of theater. November and February deadlines. http://www.tcg.org/grants/newgen/international_deadline.cfm

(ARTISTS/PHOTOGRAPHERS) Arte Luguna Prize
The Italian Cultural Association MoCA, in cooperation with Arte Laguna, organizes the Fourth International Art Prize “Arte Laguna”. The Prize is subdivided in three sections: painting, photographic art, sculpture.The Prize is open to all artists, without any limits of age, sex, nationality or other qualification. The selection of the artworks will be carried out by 3 Juries composed by experts of Contemporary Art: Viviana Siviero, Alessandro Trabucco (art critic), Igor Zanti (art critic), Stefano Coletto (Curator of the Bevilaqua La Masa Foundation Venice), Rossella Bertolazzi (Director of the European Institute of Design), Lorenzo Respi (Curator of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Milan). The prizes are an amount of 5.000 euro for each section. Moreover for the selected artists in planned a exhibition in Arsenale at Venice, other collective exhibitions. You can find more information on the website at: www.artelagunaprize.com. Deadline November 15, 2009.

GRANTS: WRITERS, ARTISTS, FILMMAKERS, & SCHOLARS

(CA ARTISTS) Artadia Awards 2009 San Francisco
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue is now accepting applications for the Artadia Awards 2009 San Francisco from all visual artists living and working in the 5-county San Francisco Bay Area. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all media and at any point in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Awardees will be selected in the fall of 2009 through Artadia’s two-tiered jury process. This is Artadia’s seventh awards cycle in the San Francisco Bay Area. For eligibility requirements and to access the web-based application, please visit: www.artadia.org. Application deadline: October 15, 2009 at 11:59pm (PST)

(ALL) Border Crosser Grant
Whoever wants to discover Central, Eastern and Southern Europe or China, whoever plans on a
publication in German and wants to start for research trips in the East, can apply for funding. The publications should be able to reach a broader audience and help to bring about a greater understanding for the countries of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, and China. Literary prose and essays, photo (text) books, child and youth books, but also scripts for documentaries and sound radio contributions are welcome. One can apply for all-inclusive research grants varying from 2.000 to 10.000 €. For more information, call Inga Niemann via telephone (+49 30-816996-64) E-mail (niemann@lcb.de) or visit these websites: www.bosch-stiftung.de/grenzgaenger and www.lcb.de/grenzgaenger. Deadline October 31, 2009.

(SCHOLARS & WRITERS) Research Fellowships
Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies: The Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Residential Research Fellowships are awarded to eligible scholars whose work focuses on race, ethnicity, and society in Africa and the Atlantic world (broadly defined as the African Diaspora). Predoctoral fellowships, covering two years, carry an annual stipend of $20,000 and begin August 15. Postdoctoral fellowships, covering one year, carry a stipend of $45,000 and begin September 1. Fellows must be in residence at the university for the duration of the award period and are expected to make periodic presentations of their work to the Woodson fellows and the larger academic community. Write to Selection Committee, Residential Research Fellowships, at the following address or see web site for more details and latest deadline. Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, 108 Minor Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4162 or E-Mail: woodson@virginia.edu. Website: www.virginia.edu/woodson/programs/fellowships.html. Deadline: December 1, 2009.

(FILMMAKERS) New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program
Supports new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project. The grant awards the use of their Grant Program Arriflex 16SR camera package to senior and graduate thesis students and to independent filmmakers for a scheduled period of time. Proposed projects may be of any non-commercial nature: dramatic, narrative, documentary, experimental, etc. Phone: (206) 467-8666, Fax: (206) 467-9165, Email: filmgrant@oppcam.com. For more info, go to: http://oppenheimercamera.com/grant.html

ROME PRIZE, TRAVEL FUNDING AND MORE

(ALL DISCIPLINES) The Rome Prize
American Academy in Rome: The Rome Prize: Each Rome Prize winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a study or studio. Those with children under 18 live in partially subsidized apartments nearby. Winners of 6-month and 11-month fellowships receive stipends of $12,500 and $25,000, respectively. Each year, the coveted Rome Prize is awarded to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Prize recipients are invited to Rome for six months or eleven months to immerse themselves in the Academy community where they will enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their own professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience and on the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Academy have to offer. Rome Prize winners are the core of the Academy's residential community, which also includes Residents and Visiting Artists and Scholars. For Further Information: email: info@aarome.org, call: 212-751-7200, fax: 212-751-7220 or visit the website: http://www.aarome.org. The annual deadline for applications is November 1st. Applications will also be accepted between November 2 and November 15 for an additional fee. You must be a U.S. citizen to apply.


(ALL DISCIPLINES) Awards for Study in Scandinavia
The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers fellowships (up to $23,000) and grants (normally $5,000) to individuals to pursue research or study in one or more Scandinavian country for up to one year. The number of awards varies each year according to total funds available. Over $300,000 is available for the 2010-11 competition. Awards are made in all fields. Applicants must have a well-defined research or study project that makes a stay in Scandinavia essential. Applicants must be United States citizens or permanent residents. Applicants must have completed their undergraduate education by the start of their project in Scandinavia. Team projects are eligible, but each member must apply as an individual, submitting a separate, fully-documented application. First priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received an ASF award. Only in exceptional cases will a third award be considered. Also available: grants for Scandinavians and translators. See website for details: http://www.amscan.org/study_scandinavia_details.htm. Nov. 2 deadline.

(ARTISTS/PERFOR.ARTS) Asian Cultural Council Fellowships
$12,000 fellowship: Asian individuals in the visual and performing arts seeking grant assistance to conduct research, study, receive specialized training, undertake observation tours, or pursue creative activity in the United States are eligible to apply for fellowship support from the Council. Americans seeking aid to undertake activities in Asia are also eligible to apply. For more information, write to: Asian Cultural Council, 437 Madison Avenue, 37th Floor, New York, NY 10022-7001, United States. Call: (212) 812-4300, Fax: (212) 812-4299 or visit the website: http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org. Individuals and institutions wishing to inquire about the possibility of grant support should complete and submit the initial inquiry form by October 15, 2009. If the proposed activity falls within the ACC’s guidelines, application materials will be provided by the ACC. The deadline for receipt of completed applications and proposals is November 15, 2009.

(PHOTOGRAPHERS/ARTISTS) Research Fellowship
University of Arizona Ansel Adams Research $2,500 Fellowship: Ansel Adams Research Fellowships are offered to scholars, museum Professionals, artists, and independent researchers who need to utilize the archives, photograph collection, and/or library of the Center for Creative Photography. Applications from all disciplines are encouraged. Write to: 1030 N. Olive, Tucson, AZ 85721 ,Phone: 520-621-7970. Deadline October 31. For more information, go to: http://creativephotography.org.

(HUMANITIES SCHOLARS) Multi Country Research Fellowship
The Council of American Overseas Research Center’s (CAORC) Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or in teams. Approximately ten awards of up to $9,000 each will be given to scholars who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-country significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and related natural sciences. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. Application is in January. Please check the website for more details: http://www.caorc.org/programs/multi.htm.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOOL LOAN REPAYMENT INFO AND MORE

Today, I'll start with a quote by Martin Luther King Jr.: "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better." On that note, here are a few tidbits for you recent grads, for women, scholars and others in the arts....coming soon will be some new FAQs! Oh, by the way, my book is going out today to publishers! Wish me luck and best to thee, Mirabee.

(RECENT GRADUATES) I originally got this announcement from artbistro.com about the new program in the U.S. for reducing student debt:
Income-Based Repayment Program:
Income-Based Repayment (IBR) is a new payment option for federal student loans. Starting July 1, 2009, it will help borrowers keep their loan payments affordable with payment caps based on their income and family size. For most eligible borrowers, IBR loan payments will be less than 10 percent of their income - and even smaller for borrowers with low earnings. IBR will also forgive remaining debt, if any, after 25 years of qualifying payments.

Who can use IBR? IBR is available to federal student loan borrowers in both the Direct and Guaranteed (or FFEL) loan programs, and covers most types of federal loans made to students, but not those made to parents. To enter IBR, you have to have enough debt relative to your income to qualify for a reduced payment. That means it would take more than 15 percent of whatever you earn above 150% of poverty level to pay off your loans on a standard 10-year payment plan. Click here for more information: http://www.ibrinfo.org/what.vp.html

(WOMEN) Career Development Grants
American Association of University Women, Career Development Grants: Career Development Grants offer up to $12,000 to women who hold a bachelor's degree and are preparing to advance their careers, change careers, or re-enter the work force. Special consideration is given to women of color, and women pursuing their first advanced degree or credentials in nontraditional fields. Write to: American Association of University Women, Career Development Grants, 301 Act Drive, Iowa City, IA 52243-4030 or e-Mail: aavw@act.org See web site for more details: www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/career_development.cfm. Application Deadline: December 15, 2009.
(RESEARCH) American Antiquarian Society: Research Fellowships
Long-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships: Long-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships provide support for four-to-twelve-month residences in the Society's library and carry stipends of up to $35,000. See web site for more details and deadlines. American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609-1634. E-Mail: academicfellowships@mwa.org, Website: www.americanantiquarian.org/longterm.htm. Application Deadline: October 15, 2009.

(PERF. ART/DANCERS) Call for Proposals
STREB is pleased to request proposals for its Emerging Artists Commissioning Program, funded by the Ford Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. The Commissioning Program, housed at the company’s Williamsburg home, SLAM, will accept proposals from artists whose work is movement-based, including choreographers, aerialists and circus artists. The goal of the program is to create a pool of artists who can capitalize on the resources distinct to SLAM. Either literally or conceptually, the space’s special and unusual characteristics and qualities should inform and inspire new and exciting creative experiments. Commissioning program artists will have various opportunities to showcase work throughout its development and to receive feedback from both STREB and audiences. Selected artists will receive a $2,000.00 grant plus a specific amount of time, space and resources tailored to the nature and scope of each particular project. For more info and application guidelines, go to: http://www.streb.org/V2/vision/commissions.html. All proposals must be received by July 13, 2009, 5:00pm.

FELLOWSHIPS AND MORE!

Well, two more weeks until my book, The Memory Palace, goes out to publishers. I've been pretty busy doing last minute edits and drawings, but soon I'll be able to devote more time to YOU, dear reader, and help you find funding, a place to work and the time to create. Until then, here is yet another smattering of opportunities to consider....

(ALL DISCPLINES) The Japan Foundation Fellowships
Fellowships are offered to scholars, researchers, and professionals who wish to conduct research in Japan for periods ranging from three weeks to twelve months. Write or see web site for specific details of each fellowship. The Japan Foundation, 152 West 57th Street, 39th floor, New York, NY 10019. E-Mail Address:info@jfny.org. Website: www.jfny.org/hqactivities.html#fellow
Application Deadline: September 2, 2009.

(ALL DISCIPLINES) Radcliffe Fellowship
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. Stipends are funded up to $65,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses. Some support for relocation expenses is provided where relevant. If so directed, Radcliffe will pay the stipend to the fellow's home institution. Fellows receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University during the fellowship year, which extends from early September 2010 through June 30, 2011. Fellows are expected to be free of their regular commitments so they may devote themselves full time to the work outlined in their proposal. Since this is a residential fellowship, we expect fellows to reside in the Boston area during that period and to have their primary office at the Institute so that they can participate fully in the life of the community. For additional information, please contact: 617-496-1324 or email: fellowships@radcliffe.edu or visit the website: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply.aspx. The deadline for individual applications in the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences is October 1, 2009. ***(as an aside, this is not a fellowship for emerging artists, writers, etc. Only apply if you are mid-career or have had a couple big successful projects that you have completed, such as one or two published books. I don't mean to be a nay-sayer, I'm just being practical here. Don't want to waste anyone's time.)

(FILMMAKERS) Production Assistance
The Center for Independent Documentaries (CID) is seeking proposals on an ongoing basis from independent producers for the production of documentaries on contemporary issues. Projects with which CID collaborates are eligible to receive a variety of services and resources. The fee charged to each projects varies. CID works with each producer to provide services on a sliding scale and may select one or two projects a year to receive services for free. Contact: Center for Independent Documentary, 1608 Beacon St., Waban, MA 01268. For more information, call tel: 508.528.7279, e-mail:info@documentaries.org. or visit the website: www.documentaries.org.

MORE TRAVEL & RESEARCH GRANTS

Greetings all...The theme this week is obviously travel grants. So many people have written me over the last couple months, saying that that is the main thing they are looking for, I just had to throw out a few things. More residency announcements to come, a new poll, and more of everything....just have patience my friends. Cheers, Mira

(MUSICIANS/COMPOSERS) Travel Research Grant
Columbia College Chicago, Center for Black Music Research: CBMR Travel Grants. The CBMR will award travel grants up to $1,000 to assist with transportation costs and daily subsistence expenses for a five-day research residency at the CBMR Library and Archives. The travel grants support research in the study and performance of black music repertoire and help scholars and musicians visit the CBMR Library and Archives to examine and use its archival collection of scores and sound recordings. Scholars, musicians, composers and conductors, educators, graduate students, and independent researchers are eligible to apply. Deadline: 9/1/2009. For more information, go to: http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/Library_and_Archives/CBMR_Travel_Grants.php

(SCHOLARS/HUMANITIES) Hayek Fund for Scholars
George Mason University, Institute for Humane Studies (IHS):
The Hayek Fund for Scholars makes strategic awards for career-enhancing activities such as presentations at academic or professional conferences, travel to academic job interviews (on campus or at professional or academic conferences), travel to and research at archives or libraries, participation in career development or enhancing seminars, distribution of a published article to colleagues in his or her field, and submission of unpublished manuscripts to journals or book publishers. For more information, go to: http://www.theihs.org/grants_and_contest/id.712/default.asp Awards are given up to $1,000. Applications accepted all year-round. Graduate students and un-tenured faculty members are eligible to apply.

(PERF. ARTS) Performing Arts Fund, French Embassy
The Visual and Performing Arts Department offers a variety of project, research travel, residency, and academic cooperation grants to American non-profit institutions and presenters for significant bilateral collaborations and for projects involving living French artists. Awards focus on contemporary work, but may also support the presentation of older works that play an important contextual role. Applications may be made through any of the regional Cultural Services’ offices. Deadline: September 15, 2009. For more information, go to: http://www.frenchculture.org/spip.php?article428&tout=ok.

RESEARCH AND TRAVEL GRANTS FOR WRITERS AND SCHOLARS

HISTORICAL RESEARCH: Hodson-Brown Fellowship
The Hodson-Brown fellowship supports work by scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. It is also open to filmmakers, novelists, creative and performing artists, and others working on projects that draw on this period of history. The fellowship award supports two months of research (in Providence, R.I.) and two months of writing (at Washington College in Chestertown, Md). Housing and university privileges will be provided. The fellowship includes a stipend of $5,000 per month for a total of $20,000. Deadline for applications for the 2010 fellowship year is July 15, 2009. For more information, go to: http://starrcenter.washcoll.edu

JOURNALISTS: Ochberg Fellowship
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Department of Communications, 102 Communications Building, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3740 E-Mail: info@dartcenter.org
Six or more expense-paid fellowships are available to mid-career journalists who want to apply knowledge of emotional trauma to improving coverage of violent events. Fellowships are open to print and broadcast reporters, photographers, editors and producers with at least five years of journalism experience. Fellows will attend a two-day seminar on the role emotional trauma plays in coverage of violent events, then will have access to all events and speakers in the annual conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (www.istss.org). See web site for guidelines and application form. For more info, go to: http://www.dartcenter.org/fellowships/index.php Deadline: July 30.

FULBRIGHT GRANTS: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5L, Washington, D.C. 20008-3009 www.cies.org/us_scholars
The Council administers the Department of State-sponsored Fulbright Scholar Program for advanced research and university lecturing in more than 1,400 countries around the world. Some 800 grants are awarded annually to faculty and professionals in virtually all academic disciplines, including creative writing. Grant benefits vary by country, but usually include international travel, a monthly stipend, and other allowances. A similar program for scholars from abroad for university lecturing and advanced research in the U.S. is administered in this country by the Council. Interested non-U.S. citizens should inquire at the U.S. embassy or Fulbright agency in their home country. Deadline: August 1. See web site for more details. Also, please see my article "Fulbrights: The Inside Scoop" here: http://miraslist.blogspot.com/2009/04/fubright-grants-inside-scoop.html for more information on applying for this amazing grant.

KENNEDY LIBRARY RESEARCH GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS:
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125-3313 E-Mail: kennedy.library@nara.gov Website: www.jfklibrary.org Kennedy Library Research Grants, ranging from $500 to $1,500, are offered to scholars and students, fifteen to twenty in number, to help defray living, travel, and related costs incurred while doing research at the library. Applications are evaluated on the basis of expected use of available library holdings, the degree to which projects address research needs in Kennedy-related studies, and qualifications of applicants. Write to William Johnson, Chief Archivist, at above address for more details. The Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Research Fellowship, carrying a stipend of up to $7,000, is intended to support scholars in the preparation of substantial works on the foreign policy of the Kennedy years, especially with regard to the Western Hemisphere, or on Kennedy domestic policy, especially with regard to racial justice and to the conservation of natural resources. The fellowship may be awarded to a single individual or divided between two recipients. Write to William Johnson, Chief Archivist, at above address for more details. Deadline for Fellowships and Grants is August 15.

GUGGENHEIM RESEARCH GRANTS: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
25 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019-5401 Website: www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
Research Grants, ranging from $15,000 to $30,000 a year for periods of one or two years, are available to postdoctoral scholars working on projects in any of the natural or social sciences or the humanities that "promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance." Requests will be considered for salaries, employee benefits, research assistantships, computer time, supplies and equipment, fieldwork, secretarial and technical help, and other essentials for the completion of the project. Write or see web site for additional information and application procedures. Deadline: August 1.

RESEARCH IN INDIA: American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowships
University of Chicago, 1130 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 E-Mail: aiis@uchicago.edu Website: www.indiastudies.org/fellow.htm Application Deadline: July 1, 2009.
The American Institute of Indian Studies annually offers a variety of fellowships, including Performing and Creative Arts Fellowships for study and research in India. Award funds are made available in foreign currency only. Requirements vary; query the Institute before applying. Available to U.S. citizens at the doctoral or postdoctoral level and foreign nationals enrolled at the doctoral level or teaching full-time (postdoctoral) at American colleges or universities.

For those of you who didn't see this one that I previously posted:
HISTORICAL RESEARCH: Dianne Woest Fellowship
Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130-2179
email: wrc@hnoc.org Website: www.hnoc.org/programs/fellowship.php The Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities offers a stipend of $4,000/month, to be disbursed on a monthly basis for a minimum of one and a maximum of three months to doctoral candidates, academic and museum professionals, or independent scholars who will be based at the Williams Research Center. While THNOC resources should play a central role in the proposed research agenda, fellows will also be encouraged to explore other research facilities in the Greater New Orleans area. Deadline: August 1.

GRANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS

Don't worry...I haven't forgotten all your questions and comments from my "Calling All Artists" posts...I'm just trying to keep up with some things on the horizon. Here are a few for writers. Some have on-going deadlines, others have deadlines coming up. Also, there are several U.S. regional grant deadlines approaching, like in New Jersey and Wyoming and other places so if you are interested in checking out what your state has to offer, go to my "labels" section on the right-hand sidebar and click on "state grants." Happy hunting!

WRITERS EXCHANGE: Poets & Writers Exchange Program. Website: www.pw.org/about-us/maureen_egen_writers_exchange_award Deadline: Ongoing. The Writers Exchange Program is designed to encourage a sharing of works and resources among emerging writers nationwide. A poet and a fiction writer from a designated state are chosen annually. Each receives a $500 honorarium and gives readings and meets with the literary community in New York City during October. All related travel and lodging expenses and a daily stipend are covered. See web site for annual state. Guidelines and applications available online or at the above address.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: Carnegie Fund for Authors
Carnegie Fund for Authors, 1 Old Country Road, Carle Place, NY 11514
The Carnegie Fund offers grants-in-aid to qualified commercially published book authors who have suffered financial emergency as a result of illness or injury (their own or that of spouses or dependent children) or who have suffered some equivalent misfortune. Grant amounts vary according to need. Write for more details. Application Deadline: Ongoing

FICTION WRITERS UNDER 39: Bard Fiction Prize
Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
E-Mail Address: bfp@bard.edu Website: www.bard.edu/bfp. Application Deadline: July 15
The Bard Fiction Prize annually recognizes a promising young fiction writer under the age of 39; it consists of a $30,000 award and appointment as writer-in-residence at Bard College for one semester. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students. Write or see the web site for more details.

SCREENWRITING FELLOWSHIPS: Walt Disney-ABC Studios
email: abc.fellowships@abc.com Website: abctalentdevelopment.com/programs_writers.htm
Deadline: August 8. The Disney-ABC Writing Fellowship selects up to eleven writers annually to work full-time at developing their craft in the Disney-ABC Studios' features or television division. The one-year fellowships, beginning in October, offer a salary of $50,000 plus benefits. No previous film or television experience is necessary, but writing samples are required. A number of other genre specific programs are also available. See the web site for guidelines for each program and applications.

HISTORICAL RESEARCH: Dianne Woest Fellowship
Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130-2179
email: wrc@hnoc.org Website: www.hnoc.org/programs/fellowship.php The Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities offers a stipend of $4,000/month, to be disbursed on a monthly basis for a minimum of one and a maximum of three months to doctoral candidates, academic and museum professionals, or independent scholars who will be based at the Williams Research Center. While THNOC resources should play a central role in the proposed research agenda, fellows will also be encouraged to explore other research facilities in the Greater New Orleans area. Deadline: August 1.

RESIDENCY: Montana Artists Refuge
email: mar@mt.net Website: www.montanaartistsrefuge.org/residencies.htm
Residencies for artists from all disciplines, including writers, are available for up to nine months. All four residency spaces will be occupied by writers of all genres—prose, poetry, illustrated books, screen and play writing—with a studio space available for collaborations and impromptu performances or readings. The Refuge will provide comfortable living accommodations, including utilities up to $250 per month, a stipend, a quiet rural atmosphere in which to create, the inspiration of a Rocky Mountain environment, and a supportive artistic community with which to interact if one chooses. Application Deadline: July 30

D.C. WRITING GRANTS: District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
E-Mail Address: joe.babb@dc.gov Website: www.dcarts.dc.gov Application Deadline: May 28
A number of grants are available to individual artists and organizations in the District of Columbia, including Artist Fellowships of up to $5,000, given to professional creative artists living in the state. Specific arts disciplines will be eligible for support each year on a rotating basis. See web site for complete guidelines, application, and information for different programs.

OREGON WRITING FELLOWSHIPS: Literary Arts, Inc., Oregon Literary Fellowships
E-Mail Address: susan@literary-arts.org Website: www.literary-arts.org Deadline: June 27
Oregon Literary Fellowships and the Women Writers Fellowship help those in need of funds initiate, develop, or complete a literary project in poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama, or literature for young readers. The Women Writers Fellowship gives special attention to work that explores experiences of race, class, physical disability, or sexual orientation. The minimum amount awarded for each fellowship is $2,500. See web site for guidelines and application.

WASHINGTON STATE WRITERS: Artist Trust Fellowships
1835 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 email: info@artisttrust.org Website: www.artisttrust.org/grants/FELL Deadline: June 22
Eight to ten fellowships of $6,500 each are awarded in odd-numbered years to recognize the achievements of Washington poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Fellowship recipients must develop and produce a public event, such as a reading, lecture, or workshop. Residents of Washington State who are at least 18 years old and are not matriculated students are eligible. Submit up to 15 pages of poetry or 20 pages of prose, a resume, and proof of residency by June 8. There is no entry fee. Send an SASE, call, e-mail, or visit the web site for the required application and complete guidelines.