FELLOWSHIPS: The Center @ National Gallery of Art

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Fellowships, 2023–2024

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts is a research institute that fosters the study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, and urbanism, from prehistoric times to the present. The resident community of scholars includes the Kress-Beinecke Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, and approximately 18 fellows at any one time, including pre- and postdoctoral fellows, senior and visiting senior fellows, and research associates.

The Center is now welcoming applications for the following fellowships: 

Visiting Senior Fellowships

Award period: one two-month period between March 1 and August 15, 2024

Applications due September 21, 2023

Senior Fellowships

Award period: academic year 2024–2025, or a single semester therein 

Applications due October 15, 2023

A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship

Award period: September 2024–August 2026

Applications due October 15, 2023

Center/YCBA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Award period: September 2024–August 2026

Applications due October 15, 2023

Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowships

Award period: one to three years beginning September 2024

Applications due November 15, 2023

Fellows have access to the notable resources represented by the art collections, the library, and the image collections of the National Gallery of Art, as well as other specialized research libraries and collections in the Washington area.

For more information, please visit the Center’s website, or email us at TheCenter@nga.gov.  

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Author: Camara Dia Holloway

I am the Project Manager for the Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute. I earned my PhD at Yale University in the History of Art Department and specialize in twentieth century American art with a particular focus on the history of photography, race and representation, and transatlantic modernist networks. I also serve as a Founding Co-Director of the Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH).

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