Category: Funding, Grants, Scholarships, Jobs

Details of funding opportunities for art historians including undergraduate and graduate opportunities, postdoctoral and senior fellowships. There are further link to funding opportunities under ‘Art History Links’.

Funding | The Hansen Trust PhD Scholarship in History

Deadline 31st Oct 2017 About The History Program at The University of Melbourne is at the forefront of teaching and research internationally. The Hansen Trust has been established to support innovation and excellence in History at Melbourne and to provide students with an outstanding education: to open pathways into great careers and graduate opportunities; to underline the continuing relevance and importance of history; and to nurture and engage community passion for this important field of study. Benefits $30,000 per year for the length of a full-time PhD candidature A key feature of the scholarship is a mentoring program that provides valuable experience in tertiary teaching and the promotion of History to the community. Eligibility The successful applicant must meet the Entry Requirements for the full-time PhD Arts (https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/courses/dr-philart) and have received a minimum result of first class Honours in the…

Fellowship | Research and Archive Fellowships to address the work of Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber Arp.

ARP-Fellowships Application Deadline: November 30, 2020 Hans Arp (1886-1966) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) are among the most remarkable artists of the twentieth century. They galvanized the movements of Dada and Surrealism, and influenced the development of concrete art and organic abstraction. Since 1977 the Stiftung Arp e.V. has overseen the greater part of both artists’ estates. It holds one of the most comprehensive collections of their work and manages most of their written and photographic archives. The Foundation also has an extensive research library, which holds primary literature and catalogues of the work of Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hans Arp as well as many publications of their broader artistic and cultural context. In 2018, the Stiftung Arp e.V. is awarding up to four research- and archive-fellowships to both junior scholars as well as to established researchers and curators whose work addresses…

Jobs and Funding | Art History and Curatorship | September 15th 2017

Jobs Australia Exhibitions and Collections Officer (temporary, FT)  Rockhampton Art Gallery – deadline 24th September 2017 Senior Curator, Exhibitions, Australian Centre for the Moving Image – deadline 24th September 2017 Director, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery – deadline 1st October 2017 Head of Exhibition Design, The National Gallery of Australia – deadline 25th September 2017 Cultural Collections Officer (Museums), Tamworth Regional Council – deadline 20th September 2017 Executive Director, Arts Access Victoria – deadline 29th September 2017 International Research Manager, Auckland War Memorial Museum – deadline 22nd September 2017 Lecturer (History and Theory), BA (Hons) Photography, Arts University Bournemouth – deadline 25th September 2017 Anniversary Fellowships (2 years) (includes Contextual Learning in Humans and Machines; Digital Society & Culture; Cultural Heritage) University of Stirling – deadline 4th October 2017 Funding Long Term Research Fellowships in Cultural and Intellectual History, University of London…

Jobs and Funding | Art History and Curatorship | 1 September 2020

Jobs Australia Curator, Research (MUMA) | Part-time – deadline 12th September 2017 2 Curators, 1 Assistant Curator, Australian Centre for the Moving Image – deadline 10th September 2017 Accessioning Officer, National Film and Sound Archive – deadline 7th September 2017 Collections Manager, Heide Museum of Modern Art – deadline 8th September 2017 International Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory, University of Edinburgh – deadline 20th September 2017 Senior Lecturer/ Lecturer – General Education (Art History/Film Studies), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen – The School of Humanities and Social Science – deadline 20th October 2017 Senior Lecturer/Reader in Digital Humanities, University of East Anglia – deadline 21st September 2017 Funding Paul Mellon Publication Grants – deadline 30th September 2017 NB – For the foreseeable future these notices will now be fortnightly and I am no longer including calls for papers…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 18th Augsut 2017

Jobs Australia Professor/Associate Professor & Head of Discipline, Fine Arts, Griffith – deadline 15th September 2017 Fundraising & Development Director, Heide MoMA – deadline 8th September 2017 Programming Communications Coordinator, Regional Arts Victoria – deadline 28th August 2017 Partnerships Coordinator, Regional Arts Victoria – deadline 28th August 2017 History and Heritage Coordinator, Glen Eira City Council – deadline 27th August 2017 International Research Associate in Cultural History, University of Oxford – deadline 14th September 2017 Lecturer in Scottish Visual History, University of Aberdeen – deadline 7th September 2017 Funding and Fellowships Visiting Professor of Australian Studies 2018-19 and/or 2019-20, Centre for Pacific and American Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo – deadline 29th September 2017 Autumn 2017 Paul Mellon Foundation Research and Project Grants (various areas) – deadline 30th September 2017 Calls for Papers ‘Memories of…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | August 11th 2017

Jobs Australia Curator, Collections and Exhibitions Manager, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne – deadline 13th August 2017 Senior Curator – Public Programs, Australian Centre for the Moving Image – deadline 17th August 2017 Heritage Project Coordinator, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House – deadline 27th August 2017 Curator, Bendigo Art Gallery – deadline 21st August 2017 Head of Curatorial Projects, The Arts Centre Gold Coast – deadline 5th September 2017 Curator First Peoples Project, Australian National Maritime Museum – deadline 27th August 2017 Assistant Curator, UTS ART, UNiversity of Technology, Sydney – deadline 21st August 2017 International Programme Leader, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, British Higher School of Art and Design – Moscow, Russia – deadline 28th August 2017 Assistant / Associate-Level Faculty Position in Islam and the Arts, Stanford University – deadline 2nd October 2017 Assistant Professor…

Funding | The Judith Neilson Scholarship in Contemporary Art

The Judith Neilson Scholarship in Contemporary Art has been established to support the study of contemporary Chinese art in its global contexts. The Scholarship provides support for full-time doctoral study to be undertaken through the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney. We invite applications from highly motivated individuals interested in engaging deeply with issues related to contemporary Chinese art, global art cultures, and transcultural studies. Prospective students must possess demonstrable research skills, high proficiency in writing in English, and academic experience in one or more of the following fields: art history and theory, Chinese studies, visual culture, and/or curatorial studies. Proficiency in Chinese is strongly preferred. Applications that demonstrate potential for engagement with the White Rabbit Collection are encouraged. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Stephen Whiteman (stephen.whiteman@sydney.edu.au) with questions and expressions of interest. For further…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art history and Curatorship | July 28th 2017

Jobs Australia Director and CEO, Footscray Community Arts Centre – deadline 7th August 2017 Public Programs Curator, Benalla Art Gallery – deadline 3rd August 2017 Head, Digital Experience, Australian War Memorial – deadline 8th August 2017 Conservation Assistant – Paper Lab, Australian War Memorial – deadline 4th August 2017 Assistant Curator, Grade 2 – Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW – deadline 4th August 2017 Painting Conservator, Art Gallery of NSW – deadline 11th August 2017 Frame Conservator, Art Gallery of NSW – deadline 11th August 2017 Special Exhibitions Curator, Art Gallery of NSW – deadline 4th August 2017 Curator and Collection Coordinator, Artbank – deadline 3rd August 2017 International Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology, SOAS University of London – deadline 24th August 2017 Funding Artbank Emerging Curator Callout – deadline 21st August 2017 Fellowships at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens to support research…

Funding | Power Publications Dissertation Prize for Indigenous Art Research

Power Publications is pleased to announce that it will award a dissertation prize for the best PhD, DPhil or Master by Research written on Indigenous art. Supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, this prize supports new research and writing on Indigenous art within a scholarly context. The prize is not restricted to authors of Indigenous heritage. Academic supervisors will be invited to nominate candidates and a jury led by Professor Ian McLean, of the University of Melbourne, will select an awardee. The prize will be financial ($2,000) and the winning author will be invited to present their research at the University of Sydney. Application requirements: The 2017 round of the award is currently open and applications can be made via Submittable Applicants for the 2017 award must have completed and defended their dissertation in the calendar year 2016 Applications for the 2017…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 14th July 2017

Jobs Australia Curator (designated role for Australian First Nations Curator), ACCA, Melbourne – deadline 4th August 2017 Grimwade Collection Curator, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne – deadline 6th August 2017 Curator, Published Collections, Australian War Memorial – deadline 24th July 2017 International Writer in Residence 2018, Victoria University of Wellington (Writers in all areas of literary activity, including drama, fiction and poetry, New Zealand art, biography, history, music, society and culture, are eligible to apply) – deadline 30th September 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher in Tibetan Art, SOAS University of London – deadline 2nd August 2017, “Art Studies” Full-Time Fixed-Term Position (Associate Professor), Ritsumeikan University, Osaka – deadline 20th July 2017 Funding and Awards Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art – deadline 25th October 2017 Postdoctoral Fellowshipship “History of Knowledge” (Lund Univ.) – deadline 15th September 2017…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 7th July 2017

Jobs Australia Executive Director, NAVA – deadline 4th August 2017 Director, Public Programs, National Archives of Australia – deadline 14th July 2017 International Curator, Early Modern Collections, British Library – deadline 11th July 2017 Research Fellow: Intangible Cultural Heritage, University of Hertfordshire – deadline 21st August 2017 Research Fellow: Art and Public Engagement, University of Hertfordshire – deadline 21st August 2017 Calls for Papers Building the Scottish Diaspora (University of Edinburgh, 17-18 Nov 2017) – deadline 24th July 2017 Jewellery Matters – Context and Material Research (Amsterdam, November 16 – 17, 2017) – deadline July 31, 2020 The Tableau Vivant: Across Media, History, and Culture (Columbia University, New York, 30 November – 2 December 2020) – deadline 30th July 2017 2018 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace, 22–25 March 2018) – deadline 15th September 2017…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 30th June 2017

Jobs Australia Curator of Academic Programs, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne – deadline 23rd July 2017 Director, Art Collection and Exhibitions, Parliament House, Canberra ACT – deadline 9th July 2017 Exhibitions Officer, The Australian War Memorial – deadline 10th July 2017 Senior Art Consultant, Artbank (based in NSW) – deadline 5th July 2017 Collections Documentation and Loans Registrar, Arts Centre Melbourne – deadline 4th July 2017 Program Coordinator (non-ongoing 12month contract), National Portrait Gallery – deadline 10th July 2017 Part Time – Curator & Exhibitions Officer, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. International Field Director, Hue – Site and Space in Southeast Asia, Power Institute project based in Vietnam – review of applications will begin on 1 August and continue until a successful candidate has been identified. Principal Curator and Head of Exhibitions /Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki…

Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowships 2018 | Australian National University

2018 Theme | Imagining Science and Technology 200 Years after Frankenstein  In 2018, the Humanities Research Centre will be looking at the humanities’ engagement (and failure to engage) with the accelerating fields of science and technology. The questions we will ask concern our understanding and imagining of the implications of our own rapid scientific and technological development. Do we understand the motivation for a billion-dollar medical science industry, for example, one that promises more and more radical forms of genetic engineering? How have artificial intelligence and robotics redefined what it means to be, and to act, human? To what extent is the development of science and technology culturally and ideologically inflected? Does science and technology––should science and technology––contribute to social equity and justice? Where are we in the debate about the mutually abrasive existence of ‘two cultures’? What control do we…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 9th June 2017

Jobs Australia General Manager, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy – deadline 14th July 2017 Deputy Director, Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne – deadline 4th July 2017 Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) Business Manager – deadline 13th June 2017 Director, Exhibitions and Collections, Australian Centre for the Moving Image – deadline 26th June 2017 Exhibitions Coordinator, The National Gallery of Australia – deadline 16th June 2017 International Lecturer in History and Archival Practice, University of Plymouth, Department of History and Art History – deadline 20th June 2017 Teaching Fellow in History and Theory of Art, University College London – Slade School of Fine Art – deadline 15th June 2017 Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, Leeds College of Art – deadline 22nd June 2017 Funding/Fellowships TRANScuratorial Academy Mumbai – an initiative of KfW Stiftung in collaboration with Goethe-Institut (September 2017) – deadline 14th June 2017 Architecture & … -…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 2nd June 2017

Jobs Australia Curator, Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts to 1980, National Gallery of Victoria – deadline 13th June 2017 Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, The National Library of Australia – deadline 18th June 2017 Chief Operating Officer, Heide Museum of Modern Art – deadline 16th June 2017 Heide Museum of Modern Art – deadline 16th June 2017 , Heide Museum of Modern Art – deadline 14th June 2017 Geelong Gallery, Exhibitions Manager (Part time) – deadline 9th June 2017 Project Manager to deliver Digital Access to Collections Project, GLAM Peak – deadline 14th June 2017 Head of School, School of Literature, Art and Media, University of Sydney – deadline 23rd July 2017 International Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex – deadline 30th June 2017 (KTP Associate) Academic Research and Engagement Coordinator (National Trust), The University of Manchester – deadline 9th June 2017 Funding/Residencies 2017/18…