Curatorial Research Fellowships Grant

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts offers Curatorial Research Fellowships to support innovative projects in contemporary visual arts. Proposals are welcomed from 501c3 arts organizations on behalf of curators at any career stage. Grants, up to $50,000, assist in research and development for projects manifesting at least two years post-award. Successful proposals will address understudied topics and experimental practices, fostering original contributions to visual arts discourse.

The Foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the Foundation has given nearly $300 million in cash grants to more than 1,000 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.
Proposals are accepted from 501c3 arts organizations on behalf of curators at any stage of their careers, with or without institutional affiliation, working towards projects that will manifest at least two years after a grant is made.
A letter of support from the director of the sponsoring organization must accompany the proposal.
Grants are up to $50,000 and are intended to cover expenses incurred during the research and development stage of an exhibition, public-facing project, or other visual arts-based initiative that contributes in an original way to contemporary visual arts discourse.
Proposals should present the topic for which research is being undertaken in narrative form. It can be helpful to discuss the origin of the applicant’s interest in the topic, the work undertaken to date; it is expected that projects will evolve over the course of the research and outcomes need not be predicted. It is important to situate the research project in relation to historical and contemporary art precedents and practices.
Strong proposals explore topics that are understudied and artists whose practices (or aspects of whose practices) are experimental, hard to categorize, and otherwise less well known to the general public.

Eligibility

Budgets should reflect real costs of the research to be undertakenExamples of research expenses include but are not limited to the following:Travel expenses: transportation, accommodation, per diemCosts associated with bringing colleagues together for private or public round table discussion, including honoraria for participationRemuneration for research assistantsRecording, transcription and translation costsAcquisition of relevant publications, subscriptions, media

Ineligibility

Budgets cannot include salary replacement or course release monies for academics.Projects should not have any explicit connection to Warhol or his work, nor should applications focus on his legacy, his methodology, or his vision.