Applications open for Curatorial Research Grants

Deadline Date: September 30, 2024

Donor Name: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/curatorial-research-grants

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) is currently accepting applications for the Curatorial Research Grants.

Curatorial Research Grants are offered annually to organisations, galleries or museums to help towards the costs of appointing a research curator to undertake research for a specific project.

The PMC is an educational charity that champions new ways of understanding British art history and culture. Through all areas of their work, including their Grants & Fellowships programme, they promote activities that enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture. As an organisation, they pledge themselves to ensuring that the histories of British art are enriched and made more relevant to a broader range of people in the future. The inclusion of voices, narratives and experiences that have been marginalised or excluded in the past will have a transformational impact on the future of the Centre and upon British art studies. Accordingly, the PMC particularly welcomes applications from those who are under-represented within the academic field of the humanities in the UK.

Scope

• Curatorial Research Grants are specifically designed to help organisations, organisations, galleries or museums towards the costs of appointing a research curator to undertake research for either:
  • an exhibition or installation of British art or architecture, or related topic
  • a cataloguing project on part of a collection or archive that will result in a printed or online catalogue
• Alternatively, an organisation may apply for a Curatorial Research Grant to provide replacement staff costs and give temporary cover for a curatorial staff member to work on a specific exhibition or cataloguing project.
• Applications for the support of part-time curatorial researchers are also welcome.

Funding Information

• Curatorial Research Grants are offered for up to a maximum of £40,000 to cover the full length of the project. Applications for less than £40,000 are also eligible.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications are open to international as well as UK based organisations.
• The grant is designed to cover the wages of a researcher; it is not to be used for other costs related to staging a curatorial project such as loans or equipment.
• Only one Curatorial Research Grant application per organisation will be considered each year.
• The funding programme supports research, educational activities and the dissemination of knowledge in the fields of British art and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present day and across the spectrum of relevant geographical and cultural contexts. The remit is broadly defined and adapts as the interests of those working in the field change. It encompasses art made in Britain or by British artists, but is not solely limited to art made, or artists from, within the geographical boundaries of the British isles. Rather they understand the field of British art studies to encompass a broad range of subjects and topics related to the artistic and cultural histories of Britain, past and present.
• They do not offer grants and fellowships in field archaeology, the current practice of architecture or the performing arts. Applications in the fields of photography, performance, film and digital media will need to demonstrate their relevance to British art studies.

For more information, visit PMC.