Category: All Funding Types

California Documentary Project Grants – Research & Development

Deadline: November 1, 2022 12:00 am

Source: California Humanities

Description: The California Documentary Project (CDP) is a competitive grant program that supports documentary film, audio, and digital media productions that explore California in all its complexity and tell stories from every corner of the state. Projects should use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective, and be suitable for both California and national audiences through public and educational screenings and presentations, broadcast, streaming, and other forms of distribution. CDP Research and Development grants are designed to strengthen the humanities content and approach of documentary media productions in their earliest stages.

Award: Up to $15,000

Eligibility: Eligible formats include, but are not limited to, features, shorts, podcasts, web series, broadcast series, VR (Virtual Reality), etc.

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2022

All Disciplines External Grant

California Documentary Project Grants – Production

Deadline: November 1, 2022 12:00 am

Source: California Humanities

Description: The California Documentary Project (CDP) is a competitive grant program that supports documentary film, audio, and digital media productions that explore California in all its complexity and tell stories from every corner of the state. Projects should use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective, and be suitable for both California and national audiences through public and educational screenings and presentations, broadcast, streaming, and other forms of distribution. CDP Production grants are designed to strengthen the humanities content and approach of documentary media productions and help propel projects toward completion.

Award: Up to $50,000

Eligibility: Eligible formats include, but are not limited to, features, shorts, podcasts, web series, broadcast series, VR (Virtual Reality), etc.

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2022

Architecture Design External Fellowship Grant Landscape Architecture

Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort

Deadline: November 30, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Center for Craft

Description: Twenty-one mid-career craft artists will receive an unrestricted grant of $10,000 and participate in an 8-month cohort experience where they will be guided through training that encourages and sustains a generative practice a both artists and educators. Recipients will participate in creating a Teaching Artist Resource Kit to be completed by the culmination of the grant period’s end. A leading component of the Teaching Artist Cohort is to support a diverse cohort of mid-career artists with varying practices and career aspirations. Ideally, awards will be given to a dynamic group of craft artists whose practice includes working as teaching artists in schools, non-tenured educators, adjunct instructors, visiting artists, museum educators, and community and workshop instructors.

Award: $10,000 grant and eight-month cohort experience

Eligibility: Proposals welcome from mid-career craft artists who teach. For the purposes of this grant, the Center for Craft defines a teaching artist as a practicing craft artist and/or maker who utilizes their skillsets and sensibilities to integrate their work and perspectives into a wide range of settings. Applicants must be 21 or older; eligible to receive taxable income in the U.S.; residing and working in the U.S. for the last two years and the duration of the fellowship; and have a continued full time studio practice for a minimum of five years and work as a teaching artist for a minimum of three years. Applicants cannot be tenured or tenure track faculty. See website for more info.

Deadline: Nov. 30, 2022

Architecture Design External Fellowship Grant Landscape Architecture

2023 Craft Research Fund Fellowship

Deadline: October 21, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Center for Craft

Description: The Craft Research Fund—Artist Fellowship is one of four categories that make up the Craft Research Fund, a visionary program dedicated to supporting scholarly craft research in United States. Awards of $10,000 will be granted to five artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice. The Center, and by extension this grant, recognizes craft to be a particular approach to making with a strong connection to materials, skill, and process. Examples of craft research might include: archive- and museum-based research; material innovations/experimentation; process-oriented research/innovation; historical research; collaborations amongst artists and/or other disciplines and/or institutions; or projects that have the potential to transform questions that are being asked in an academic context. See website for more info.

Award: $10,000.00

Eligibility: Proposals are welcome from mid-career artists, artisans, designers, makers, sculptures, and so on, who identify their practice within the field of craft. Applicants must be 21 years of age or older; eligible to receive taxable income in the U.S.; and residing and working in the U.S. for the last two years and for the duration of the fellowship period. Applicants cannot be an institution or small business; a full-time student; or a previously awarded Craft Research Fund – Artist Fellow. See website for full eligibility details.

Deadline: Oct. 21, 2022

Architecture Award External History / Theory

2024 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize

Deadline: December 1, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) Center, Virginia Tech

Description: With important contributions made by women at large architecture firms fundamentally unknown, research that documents this information is urgent. This year, the IAWA Center calls for proposals for the 2024 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize of $5000 through a two-stage process. The final prize will recognize the best published or publication-ready manuscript that researches a woman or women that made significant contributions to the field through their work practicing at large firms anywhere in the world in the second half of the 20th century. To initiate the 2024 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize, The IAWA invites proposals from professionals and scholars for a project that will result in publication-ready articles, chapters, books, manuscripts, dissertations, or exhibition catalogs or work-in-progress presentations that recognize women’s contributions in architecture as framed above. See website for more info.

Award: The first stage of the two-stage process will conclude with the selection of up to five projects. Each of the five selected will receive an award of $500 and advance to the second stage. Final award is $5,000.

Deadline: 1st stage submissions due Dec. 1, 2022; 2nd stage submissions due Dec. 1, 2023.

All Disciplines Competition External

2023 Buell Center Course Development Prize

Deadline: October 19, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: Temple Hoyne Buell Center; ACSA

Description: Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the ACSA announce the fourth year of a competitive call for course proposals on the theme of “Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.” Successful proposals will include methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting—asking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society in the midst of a global pandemic as it continues to grapple with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change. See website for details.

Award: Up to five proposals will be selected by the jury for eight thousand dollars in cash prizes and two thousand dollars in support to present the winning course proposals at the ACSA111 Annual Meeting. To receive the cash prize and support, winners must demonstrate viability for the course at their host institution within two years of the prize’s distribution via a letter from their program’s head administrator.

Eligibility: Open to faculty at all ACSA member schools. Courses previously recognized for the Prize will not be considered. Courses previously submitted but not selected are encouraged to resubmit; please note significant changes to the course proposal.

Deadline: Oct. 19, 2022

Architecture External Grant

Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant

Deadline: October 5, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: Center for Architecture

Description: This grant is awarded to further the personal and professional development of an architect in early or mid-career through travel. Travel plans should be focused on a selected topic of interest to the individual rather than as part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor. If appropriate, the winner may be asked to present at the Center for Architecture upon return.

Award: Single or multiple awards of up to $25,000

Eligibility: Applicants must be US citizens with a professional degree in architecture. They must also be practicing architects, either licensed or unlicensed. Academics may apply, but must also be practicing architects.

Deadline: Oct. 5, 2022

All Disciplines External Grant

ARCC Research Incentive Award

Deadline: October 1, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC)

Description: TheARCC Research Incentive Award aims to support and promote high‐quality architectural research and scholarship activities in ARCC member schools. The award provides faculty in ARCC member schools with financial resources to support and enhance their research and creative activities and to develop their research agendas. ARCC defines ‘architectural research’ broadly and inclusively across a wide range of domains in support of advancing knowledge of the built environment.

Award: Grant award is $10,000. ARCC awards one or more grants each year, pending availability of funds.

Eligibility: The Lead PI of the research grant must be a faculty member of an ARCC member institution. Co-PIs may include post-doctoral researchers and/or PhD candidates. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. Faculty awarded the ARCC Research Incentive Award are ineligible to apply for one year following the period of their award.

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2022

Architecture Award Design External Landscape Architecture

Foundwork Artist Prize

Deadline: September 26, 2022 5:00 pm

Source: Foundwork

Description: An annual juried award to recognize outstanding practices by contemporary artists working in any media.

Award: Unrestricted $10,000 grant and studio visits with jurors

Eligibility: Open to artists working in any media and residing anywhere in the world with limited exceptions.

Deadline: Applicant must register and maintain a published artist profile on Foundwork throughout the selection period: 5 pm PT, Sept. 26 – 5 pm PT, Dec. 31, 2022. See website for more info.

Architecture External Fellowship Heritage Conservation History / Theory Landscape Architecture Urbanism

ACLS Fellowships

Deadline: September 28, 2022 6:00 pm

Source: American Council of Learned Societies

Description: ACLS invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences pursuing research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or humanistic methodology. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, digital publication(s), critical edition, or other scholarly resources. This program does not fund works of fiction (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. See website for more info.

Award: ACLS Fellowships are intended to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. The awards are portable and are tenable at any appropriate site for research. The fellowship stipend is set at $60,000 for a 12-month fellowship. Awards of shorter duration will be prorated at $5,000 per month, with the minimum award set at $30,000. Independent scholars and adjunct faculty will receive an award supplement $7,500 for costs incurred during the research term, including research support, access to manuscript development workshops, learned society conference attendance, health insurance, or child- or eldercare.

Eligibility: Open to untenured scholars who have earned a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences on or after September 29, 2014. Applicants must be US citizens, permanent residents, Indigenous individuals residing in the United States through rights associated with the Jay Treaty of 1794, DACA recipients, asylees, refugees, or individuals granted Temporary Protected Status in the United States.

Deadline: 9 pm EDT, Sept. 28, 2022