External Humanities and Creative Arts Fellowships - Spring 2023

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Below, you'll find a list of external fellowships and residences for humanities scholars and creative artists with deadlines in Spring 2023.

For further possibilities, scholars should also search Pivot, the most comprehensive online database of funding sources available. Access is free with SU email account. See the Office of Resource Presentations and Trainings Page under “Developing a targeted funding search with Pivot" (2/14/2021).

Finally, I would recommend browsing a comprehensive lists of individual and institutional funding opportunities in the humanities and creative works posted by the Hall Center for the Humanities (Kansas University).

Contact Sarah Workman for additional support.

Yaddo Artist Residency [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 5, 2023 (for AY 2023-24 residencies)

Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. You may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of up to three artists. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board and a studio. Grants are available to help offset the costs of attending a residency.

Harvard University, Hutchins Center W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 23, 2023

The Fellowship Program is at the heart of the activities of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute. Started in 1975 as the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Institute has annually appointed scholars who conduct individual research for a period of one to two semesters in a wide variety of fields related to African and African American Studies. With a record of supporting more than 300 Fellows since its founding, the Institute has arguably done more in its short existence to ensure the scholarly development of African and African American Studies than any other pre-doctoral or post-doctoral program in the United States.

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 25, 2023

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein.

This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development. For 2023, The following categories will be reviewed:

• Craft/Sculpture
• Digital/Electronic Arts
• Nonfiction Literature
• Poetry
• Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

Open Society Foundations – Soros Equality Fellowships [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 31, 2023
The Soros Equality Fellowship seeks to support individual leaders influencing and transforming the racial justice field. We understand the unique role an individual can play in rejecting old paradigms and presenting a new vision for the United States we hope to become. We invite applicants to be bold, innovative, and audacious in their submissions. The aim of the Fellowship is to be flexible and open—a space to incubate new ideas, promote risk-taking, and develop different ways of thinking that challenge and expand our existing assumptions. A successful project should identify a challenge and propose a critical intervention that will meaningfully address the systems that reinforce inequities and discrimination in the United States. Through this Fellowship, Open Society aims to provide a network of leaders, representing the diversity of experiences, with the resources to address racial inequality and the space they need to imagine a more equitable future.

Open Society Foundation: Soros Justice Fellowships [NON-RESIDENTIAL]
Deadline: January 31, 2023
This program funds projects aimed at advancing reform, spurring debate, or catalyzing change on issues facing the US criminal justice system. Fellowships support creative writers as well as lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, researchers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinct voices. Stipends range from $94,500- $127,500 and fall into two categories: Advocacy Fellowships (18 months) and Media Fellowships (one year).

New America Fellowship [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: February 1, 2023

Invests in thinkers—journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts—who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day. New America fellows are selected on a highly competitive basis and serve—most on an adjunct basis, some full-time—for a one-year term. During that period, we aim to give them an intellectual home where they have the time, space, and resources to pursue their projects; a community where they can learn from one another; and opportunities to engage with others at New America and help shape the longer-term agenda and focus of our organization. The Fellows Program aims to support National Fellows in three primary areas: provide funding to support talented individuals to pursue ambitious endeavors; build a community grounded in cohort gatherings that take place throughout the year; and provide access to platforms and partners that can support their work.

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: February 1, 2023

NERF is a collection of 30 major cultural agencies. Projects may be in the fields of history, literature, art history, African American studies, American studies, women's and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, environmental studies, oceanography and the histories of law, medicine and technology. Each NERF itinerary must be a minimum of eight weeks; include at least three different member institutions, and include at least two weeks at each of these institutions. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions.

MacDowell Fellowship [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: February 10, 2023 (for Fall 2023 residencies)

MacDowell accepts applications from artists working in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts for a 2 - 6 wk. residency. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence, which MacDowell defines in a pluralistic and inclusive way.Bogliasco Foundation Arts and Humanities, Genoa, Italy [RESIDENTIAL]

Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship

Deadline: March 1, 2023 (for both the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 residencies)
Semester-long residencies are available to both students and more senior individuals working in the arts and humanities. Applicants are expected to demonstrate significant achievement in their disciplines, commensurate with their age and experience. Projects should lead to the completion of an artistic, literary, or scholarly work, followed by publication, performance, exhibition, or other public presentation. In the arts, the Study Center welcomes persons doing both creative and scholarly work (such as art history, musicology, film *criticism, and so on). The Center does not have rehearsal studio space for persons wishing to work extensively in performance. $30 registration fee.

American Philosophical Society – Philips Fund for Native American Research [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: March 1, 2023

Grants of up to $3,000 will be awarded in support of research in the areas of Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of Native Americans studies in the United States or Canada. Grants are intended to support travel, the cost of tape or film, and consultants' fees. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, or psycholinguistics; for the purchase of permanent equipment; or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The organization prefers to support the work of younger scholars who have received their doctorate. Applications are also accepted from graduate students for research on master's theses or doctoral dissertations.

Creative Capital Foundation: “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” [NON-RESIDENTIAL]
Deadline: March 31, 2023 (Letter of Interest)
We seek proposals for groundbreaking new work—including, but not limited to, work that attends to the many relationships between social, economic, and environmental justice, and advances the global dialogue around critical issues impacting the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond. Upcoming cycle open to the following fields:

• Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged and/or sustainable visual art-based practices
• Film/Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices.

Artists are eligible to apply for $50,000 in project funding supplemented by career development services valued at $50,000 for a total value of $100,000. Successful applicants will propose works innovative in form and/or content. Projects that transcend traditional discipline boundaries are highly encouraged.

NEH Fellowships [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: April 12, 2023
NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines, and it encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. $5,000/month for 6-12 months.

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: April 19, 2023

Supports individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. All projects must be interpretive. That is, projects must advance a scholarly argument through digital means and tools. Stand-alone databases, documentary films, podcasts, and other projects that lack an explicit interpretive argument are not eligible. $5,000/month for 6-12 months.