Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

The Foundation's grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them.  Grants are made for scholarly exhibitions at museums; curatorial research; visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations; artist residencies and commissions; arts writing; and efforts to promote the health, welfare and first amendment rights of artists.  The work of choreographers and performing artists occasionally is funded when the visual arts are an inherent element of a production.

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The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the preparation of a new course on a fundamental concern of human life as addressed by the humanities. This question-driven course would encourage undergraduates and teachers to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential ideas, works, and thinkers over the centuries.

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National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities.  Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve:

• research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities;
• planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries' and museums' digital assets;
• scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society;
• scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines;
• innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and
• new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels.

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Graham Foundation for the Fine Arts
Grants for Individuals

The Graham Foundation supports projects that investigate the contemporary condition, expand historical perspectives, or explore the future of architecture and the designed environment.  The foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Production and Presentation Grants and Research and Development Grants.

Production and Presentation Grants assist individuals with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, and other public programs.

Research and Development Grants assist individuals with seed money for research-related expenses such as travel, documentation, materials, supplies, and other development costs.

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Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award
The Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award provides funding for image acquisition for book-length, scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that are currently under contract with a publisher.  Support will be for emerging scholars who have been awarded a Ph.D. within the last six years and will fund reimbursement or anticipated expenses for rights and reproductions for books under contract with a publisher.  Applications will be evaluated based on contribution or importance to the field, significance and clarity of argument in submitted abstract and text sample, use of illustrations, depth of research and completeness of bibliography and clarity of writing.  The author must be a member of the College Art Association.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship Program

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to advanced professionals in all fields who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.  The Foundation defines advanced professionals to be those who as writers, scholars, or scientists have a significant record of publication, or as artists, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, composers, or the like, have a significant record of exhibition or performance of their work.  Grants are made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months.  The program seeks to further the development of scholars and artists by helping them engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.

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American Council of Learned Societies
Digital Innovation Fellowships

This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works.  ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may:

The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages.  Awards support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. DEL funding is available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for six to twelve months.

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