New Fellowship Opportunity
for Arts Practitioner / Writer
Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts / Stanford Humanities Center
The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and the Stanford Humanities Center intend to offer one residential fellowship at Stanford for academic year 2008-09 to a practitioner who is also a writer, scholar, or critic pursuing a research project in the arts. This fellow will be the first in a pilot fellowship program bringing together the humanities and arts in a research and creative environment on Stanford campus.
The fellowship recipient will be in residence at the Stanford Humanities Center and will be part of an intellectual community of about 25 fellows working on projects in history, literature, philosophy, and other humanities fields. The fellow will be affiliated with one of the three SiCa centers: The Center for Arts, Science and Technology, The Center for Global Arts, and the Center for Humanities and the Arts.
This fellowship seeks to bridge the worlds of art practice, on the one hand, and writing and thinking about art, on the other. The successful applicant will be both an arts practitioner and a scholar or critic interested in entering into dialogue with scholars in a wide range of humanities disciplines.
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must demonstrate professional accomplishment as arts practitioners and as critics or scholars. Applicants must have received a relevant terminal degree (usually MFA or PhD) in or before September 2005. Applicants may practice in any field of art (visual, performance, composition, mixed- and inter-media, architecture and design). Applicants may, but need not, be affiliated with an academic institution. Independent practitioners are welcome to apply. Fellowships will be awarded on the basis of a scholarly or critical project in the arts and not on the basis of art production.
SUPPORT
The fellow will be awarded a stipend of up to $60,000 and a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000, dependent upon need. The fellow will receive an office at the Stanford Humanities Center and access to Stanford library and other campus resources. Gallery, studio, rehearsal or performance space is not guaranteed although every effort will be made to find facilities and resources needed.
REQUIREMENTS
The fellow must be in residence at Stanford University during academic year 2008-09 (September 2008 to June 2009). He or she will be expected to attend lunch at the Humanities Center regularly, to present his or her research to the Humanities Center community, and to make an intellectual contribution to Stanford University by participating in and contributing to the activities of the affiliated SiCa center.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Applications should be sent in digital form to sica@stanford.edu. Please send the following files in a single email:
- Cover page (click here to download)
- 1000-word proposal for a scholarly or critical project
- Brief statement (no more than 500 words) about the applicant’s credentials as an art practitioner, explaining how art practice informs his or her scholarly or critical work
- CV (including education and employment history)
- Three letters of reference*
A limited number of digital examples of artworks may accompany the application.
* Letters of reference must be received by April 15th, and may be sent digitally to sica@stanford.edu or mailed to the SiCa office:
SiCa, Wallenberg Hall
450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 160
Stanford, CA 94305-2055
DEADLINE
Applications must be received by April 15, 2008.
Award notification will take place by the end of May, 2008.
For more information about the Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, go to shc.stanford.edu and sica.stanford.edu.
