Cal Humanities Quick Grants; fellowships; residencies; curatorial proposals; jobs

Humanities for All Quick Grant Program. 

We held an applicant webinar last week. Those who could not attend, please check out  the slide deck enclosed, and a video recording available on the California Humanities YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/u7UbTTDCm8k  

The next deadline is June 15, 2022 at 5pm PT. While preparing your application, please carefully review the Guidelines and FAQ. For examples of previously funded projects and sample proposals, visit our website. 

• Questions about eligibility, requirements, or the Quick Grant program? Contact Lucena Lau Valle, Program Officer, lvalle@calhum.org   

• Questions about the Grant Portal? Contact Brett Connor, Grants Manager boconnor@calhum.org 

Nominations for CAA Juries

CAA jury awards are opportunities to recognize member achievements and elevate the highest standards of practice, scholarship, and teaching in the visual arts. We invite nominations and self-nominations for individuals to serve on our Awards for Distinction, Publication Grant, Fellowship, and Travel and Support Grant juries. Terms begin July 2023. Nominations and self-nominations should include a brief statement outlining the individual’s qualifications and experience and a CV.

Materials are due to CAA by June 1,  2023.
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caa.reviews Seeks Field Editors

CAA is inviting nominations and self-nominations for individuals to join the caa.reviews Council of Field Editors for the three-year term July 1, 2023–June 30, 2026. caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of new books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to art history, visual studies, and the arts. Candidates may be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals with stature in the field and experience writing or editing books and/or exhibition reviews; institutional affiliation is not required. caa.reviews is seeking Field Editors in the following fields: 

• Architectural History, Urban Planning, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture  

• South and Southeast Asian Art 

• Indigenous Art  

• Early Modern European Art (South) 

• Nineteenth-Century Art 

• Twentieth-Century Art 

• Contemporary Art 

• Cinema, Media, and Performance 

• Exhibitions: Northeast 

• Exhibitions: New York 

Working with the caa.reviews editor-in-chief, the caa.reviews Editorial Board, and CAA’s staff editor, each field editor selects content to be reviewed, commissions reviewers, and considers manuscripts for publication. Field editors for books are expected to keep abreast of newly published and important books and related media in their fields of expertise, and those for exhibitions should be aware of current and upcoming exhibitions (and other related projects) in their geographic regions.  

The Council of Field Editors meets once a year in February during the Annual Conference (although attendance at the conference is not necessary to participate in the meeting). Members of all CAA committees and editorial boards volunteer their services without compensation.  

Interested applicants—both self-nominated or nominated by someone else—should submit a CV and a cover letter in a single PDF document to ebell@collegeart.org. 

Deadline: June 15, 2023  

Call for Nominations: CAA Board of Directors

CAA seeks nominations of individuals passionate about shaping the future of the organization by serving on the Board of Directors for the 2024–28 term. The board is responsible for all financial and policy matters related to CAA, promoting excellence in scholarship, and encouraging creativity and technical skills in design and art practice. CAA’s board is also charged with representing the membership regarding current issues affecting the visual arts and humanities.  

Visit our website for nomination requirements and instructions.  

Deadline: July 10, 2023

Featured Jobs and Opportunities

Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow
Colby College Museum of Art | Waterville, Maine

Visual Art Instructor(s) - Sessional
Red Deer Polytechnic | Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Curatorial Assistant
The Frick Collection | New York, New York

Assistant Professor of Art History
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Curatorial Fellowship | Prospect Art
Deadline: June 10, 2023

CFP: 10th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, University of Toronto: Contretemps | University of Toronto
Deadline: June 23, 2023

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Call for Curatorial Proposals, Writing Residency Projects, etc. at https://callforcurators.com/type/residencies/

Call for proposals

VCS Alums Forrest McGarvey (Class of 2016) and Sienna Freeman (Class of 2016) are guest co-editing the Spring/Summer issue of Feral Fabric, an online periodical journal that highlights radical textile production in art, activism, and counter-cultural movements, started as a collaborative project of Bay Area artists Paulina Berczynski and Amanda Walters. 

For the sixth volume of the Feral Fabric Journal we want to consider the radical applications, embodiments, and/or perspectives of Maximalism with a focus or engagement with clothing, textile, and fiber arts. How do Maximalist approaches to textiles (or the bodies and spaces that covet them) allow us to reinterpret and re-imagine the same systems or ideals that would deem it “too much,” especially if one ascribes that too much is never enough? How does engaging with Maximalism or a Maximalist approach give unique, expanded, or nuanced access to notions of personal or collective identity, joy, desire, ornamentalism, and more?

Submit your proposals to feralfabric@gmail.com with a brief description of your proposal by February 21 (200 words or less). The final article should be between 750-2500 words.

Stanford University is seeking applications: Community Learning and Engagement Associate in Arts

Stanford University is seeking applications, especially from candidates with an interest in generating dialogue and exchange within museums via guided tours and other in-gallery engagement programs, for a position as Community Learning and Engagement Associate. See more here: 

https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/community-learning-and-engagement-associate-21171

AICAD and Art Academy of Cincinnati announces the 2023 AICAD Symposium - What is Freedom? will take place November 8th - 10th in Cincinnati, OH.

SUBMIT YOUR SESSION PROPOSAL HERE

Now 30 years following the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition here in Cincinnati, we reflect on the evolving question “What is creative freedom today?” Art and design colleges are forging new pathways in teaching and learning as we adapt to societal disruptions existing both pre and post pandemic. What is Freedom? aims to advance conversations surrounding “freedom in the classroom” on AICAD and other college and university campuses which come from both internal and external constituencies. How do we as educators, institutions, students and, perhaps most importantly as humans, support academic and creative freedom to ensure successful outcomes and enact our values? How are we accountable in setting and monitoring our creative freedom goals?

What is Freedom? seeks to explore and share values, pedagogies, research, challenges and successes, bringing students, faculty, and administrators together in sometimes difficult dialogues regarding institutional climates to develop an inclusive vision for high quality art and design education.

AAC seeks proposals that will explore the symposium’s theme, including:

• How students’ stories tell us about the work we need to do; 

• Strategies for initiating and managing a classroom that promotes risk-taking among faculty and students engaging in difficult dialogues; 

• How to decolonize the curriculum in a post-pandemic era, 

• How art and design educators can effectively advocate for freedom and support engaged inclusivity within environments that may have competing priorities or divergent goals; 

• Defining pedagogical freedom with an emphasis on the critique; 

• Equitable assessment practices; 

• How campus leaders can address politically-driven resistance to inclusivity, freedom, and institutional change; 

• Ways that campuses are transforming to create an intentionally inclusive sense of creative freedom and well-being for all; 

• Ways to value and affirm the cultural capital of creative freedom for students and what biases or stereotypes may be standing in the way; 

• Ways that campuses are diversifying their faculty, staff, and administrators to reflect current and emerging student demographics; 

• and faculty and staff development opportunities that can promote increased intercultural awareness and competencies surrounding the theme of the conference.

  Call for Presentations

  AAC is accepting the following forms of session proposals:

  • Individual and small group proposals; 

  • Whole-panel presentations, so a school or, ideally, collaborations across schools, can propose a sustained conversation; 

  • Whole-panel case study presentations from individual schools to specifically highlight how different institutions interpret and manage different issues of freedom in pedagogy and how they plan to continue addressing freedom in the future. 

  • Faculty, students and alumni are encouraged to submit time-based, audio/visual work (experimental videos, animations, motion graphics, narrative films, and/or edited documentation of case studies) that address one or more of the conference themes. This series will be documented and recorded to remain available through our public radio station. 

  All calls for proposals are due June 1, 2023.

  SUBMIT YOUR SESSION PROPOSAL HERE

CCA Wattis Open Call

CCA's Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts has put out an Open Call for submissions to its Online Library.

The Wattis is looking for written, visual, or audio work which:

• responds to its Drum Listens to Heart exhibition and programming

• considers the Wattis as a site for ideas and cultural production.

This Open Call would be a great opportunity to publish your writing. Accepted proposal writers also will receive a $500 stipend after submitting their final works to the Wattis Library. Please visit the Wattis' website for more information. 

Submissions for proposals are due April 1, 2023; upload your proposal by filling out this Google form.

Questions? Feel free to reach out to the Wattis' Visitor Engagement Coordinator Justine Xi or Jacqueline Francis in her role as Academic Engagement Coordinator to the Wattis.