CAA News

Applications for the 2008 Professional Development Fellowship Program are now available.

CAA awards fellowships in the amount of $15,000 to qualified graduate students in visual art and art history; grants may be used to help recipients with various aspects of their work, whether for their job-search expenses or purchasing materials for their studio. In addition, one or more fellowships are awarded to a PhD student specializing in American art; this award is made possible with support from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. As in the past, honorable mentions may also be recognized.

The main purpose of the fellowship program is to support outstanding graduate students from diverse backgrounds who may have been underrepresented in their fields. By offering financial assistance to promising MFA and PhD students, CAA can assist the rising generation during this important transitional period in their lives.

This year, application forms and requirements for both visual-art and art-history fellowships have changed. Submission of material by all applicants must now be sent on CD or DVD; slides, videocassettes, and some paperwork in hard copy are not accepted. Please go to the website for specific application requirements; published below are general guidelines.

Art-History Fellowships

Applicants to the art-history fellowships must include the following on a CD: application form; essay; CV; dissertation prospectus; sample dissertation chapter; and timetable for dissertation completion. Letters of recommendation; a copy of your 2007 IRS income-tax form or 2008 Free Application for Student Federal Aid (FASFA); and graduate transcript must be submitted in hard copy and mailed to CAA with the CD. Deadline: October 1, 2008; fellows are chosen by December 31, 2008.

Visual-Art Fellowships

Visual-art fellowship applicants must include the following on CD or DVD: application form; essay; résumé or CV; description of your MFA exhibition and its timetable; all visual documentation (up to six images of your work, properly labeled and formatted for both PC and Macintosh); and image script (caption list and short descriptions of the work). Letters of recommendation; a copy of your 2007 IRS income-tax form or 2008 Free Application for Student Federal Aid (FASFA); and graduate transcript must be submitted in hard copy and mailed to CAA with the CD or DVD. Deadline: October 1, 2008; fellows are chosen by December 31, 2008.

CAA offers Annual Conference travel grants to graduate students in art history and studio art and to international artists and scholars. The grants are funded by donations from the contribution check-off on the CAA membership form. CAA warmly thanks those members who made voluntary contributions to this fund.

Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant

This $150 grant is awarded to advanced PhD and MFA graduate students as partial reimbursement of expenses for travel to the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. To qualify for the grant, students must be current CAA members. Candidates should include a completed application form, a brief statement by the student stipulating that he or she has no external support for travel to the conference, and a letter of support from the student’s adviser or head of department. For application forms and more information, please contact Lauren Stark at 212-691-1051, ext. 248, or lstark@collegeart.org. Send application materials to: Lauren Stark, Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Deadline: September 26, 2008.

International Member Conference Travel Grant

CAA presents a $500 grant to artists or scholars from outside the United States as partial reimbursement of expenses for travel to the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. To qualify for the grant, applicants must be current CAA members. Candidates should include a completed application form, a brief statement by the applicant stipulating that he or she has no external support for travel to the conference, and two letters of support. For application forms and additional information, please contact Lauren Stark at 212-691-1051, ext. 248, or lstark@collegeart.org. Send materials to: Lauren Stark, International Member Conference Travel Grant, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Deadline: September 26, 2008.

CAA has awarded five Millard Meiss Publication Grants for spring 2008. Thanks to the generous bequest of the late Prof. Millard Meiss, these grants are given twice annually to publishers to support the publication of scholarly books in art history and related fields.

The grantees are:

• Molly Aitken, The Intelligence of Tradition: Form and Meaning in Mewar Painting (Yale University Press)
• Elissa Auther, String, Felt, Thread, and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art, 1961–1979 (University of Minnesota Press)
• Marin F. Hanson and Patricia Cox Crews, eds., American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870–1940: A Catalog from the International Quilt Study Center (University of Nebraska Press)
• Richard King, ed., Art and the Artist in Cultural Revolution China (University of British Columbia Press)
• Judith Ostrowitz, Interventions: Native American Art for Far-Flung Territories, (University of Washington Press)

Books eligible for a Meiss grant must already be under contract with a publisher on a subject in the arts or art history. Authors must be current CAA members. Application criteria and guidelines are available online or from publications@collegeart.org. Deadlines: March 15 and October 1 of every year