Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Research Grant

The Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Research Grant supports innovative projects that explore contemporary art in new frameworks. With a focus on education in the United States, the foundation emphasizes the importance of research that challenges conventional thought. Grants of $10,000 are awarded to curators collaborating with established non-profits, promoting impactful exhibitions. The foundation aims to foster family unity and respect while addressing enduring societal issues through art, environment, and learning differences.

Proposals should be to research a strong, thematic exhibition that puts the works of contemporary art and/or architecture in a new or unconventional aesthetic, historical, cultural, and/or social framework. Applicants are encouraged to think expansively and challenge conventional thought through the exploration of critical ideas in the context of contemporary art.
Review Criteria for the Jury
For each award cycle, established contemporary art curators are selected to serve as jury panelists to review the applications. The criteria that the jury panel will use to determine the award recipients include:

• Intellectual quality of the proposal's premise
• Degree of innovation
• Distinction from other major art exhibitions either planned or mounted within the last 15 years with a similar topic
• Potential for both professional and public impact
• Funding
• The grant provides $10,000 for research completed by the specified date.

Eligibility

Applications are accepted on a triennial basis from any curator, or curatorial team, applying in partnership with an established 501c3 non-profit (grants cannot be issued to individual curators but can be distributed through fiscal agents).Applications are accepted from established (five or more years old) non-profit exhibition spaces, traditional galleries and museums and are generally completed by that institution’s grants/development team based on the vision and input of the curator or curators of the proposed exhibition.

Ineligibility

What is not eligible:Research on a single artist, retrospective, re-installation, and/or artist collective
Research for an exhibition already scheduled to be realized
Research on an exhibition that would most likely take place outside of the United States