Connecting Art Histories Grant

The Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative enhances global art historical scholarship by fostering intellectual exchange among scholars, particularly in underrepresented regions. This ongoing grant program supports seminars and workshops that connect over 1,000 early to mid-career researchers from diverse areas, including Africa and Latin America, to promote collaborative research and career development. The initiative not only builds professional networks but also aims to strengthen the discipline of art history by addressing geographic and political barriers.

Note: There is no annual deadline; grants are awarded on an ongoing basis.
The Getty Foundation partners with people and organizations in Los Angeles and around the world by awarding grants that support art historical scholarship, conserve art and architecture, increase access to museum collections and archives, and train visual arts professionals.
Increasing intellectual exchange among scholars around the world who study the visual arts.
Goal
Connecting Art Histories aims to strengthen art history globally by increasing opportunities for sustained intellectual exchange across nations and regions. Through grants that forge connections among people and ideas, this initiative affirms that the power and vitality of any scholarly discipline rest on the ability to bring people together.
Outcomes
Intergenerational research seminars and visiting professor programs that have served over 1,000 early and mid-career scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, East-Central Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin
Increased capacity in the field of art history in places where it is an emerging discipline through more than 80 grants since 2009
Edited volumes emerging from at least four research seminars that have given scholars career-building opportunities to publish their work
Presentations on Connecting Art Histories projects at major international conferences, including CIHA and the College Art Association
Approach
Connecting Art Histories focuses on regions where economic or political realities have prevented collaboration in the past. Our early efforts concentrated on funding programs that serve the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America, but we have since expanded our focus to include the entire Global South and East-Central Europe.
The core activities supported through Connecting Art Histories grants train younger scholars and build their professional networks with peers and advanced researchers through immersive seminars, virtual convenings, dissertation workshops, and graduate courses.