Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships 2026-2027. Folger Institute fellowships help particular person scholarly and creative analysis that enriches and expands the understanding of the early fashionable world. They worth analysis that grapples with robust historic questions and that engages with what major sources each say and don’t say as a way to produce histories encompassing various areas, questions, and strategies. The Institute additionally goals to make sure equitable entry to analysis funding by providing a number of fellowship modules and eradicating obstacles to fellowship participation.

Each yr the Folger Institute awards analysis fellowships to create a excessive-powered, multidisciplinary group of inquiry. This group of researchers could come from totally different fields, and their initiatives could discover totally different sorts of expression. But our researchers share cognate pursuits within the historical past and literature, artwork and efficiency, philosophy, faith, and politics of the early fashionable world.

Benefits

Fellowship awards are $4,000 per digital month and $5,000 per onsite month, and could also be taken any time between July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027. 

Other assets and advantages embrace:

• Research utilizing the Folger’s huge collections, together with uncommon supplies, visible artwork, theatre historical past, and secondary publications
• Online assets such because the Folger’s Digital Image Collection, which accommodates 1000’s of open-entry and out of copyright recordsdata
• Consultation with Researcher Services, onsite or nearly
• Remote entry to undigitized uncommon supplies by way of the Virtual Reading Room
• Opportunities to community with Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, and public engagement professionals, in addition to with Folger curators, librarians, and conservators
• Discounted ticket to Folger Theatre, Poetry, and Consort performances whereas in residence
• Participation in group-constructing packages with different Folger Fellows
• Exposure on the Folger web site, social media, blogs, and newsletters
• J1 Visa sponsorship, if wanted

Eligibility

• Open to all artists whose work would profit from important major analysis associated to the histories, ideas, artwork, and objects of the early fashionable world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies.
• Artistic candidates should not required to carry a proper diploma, however ought to describe their coaching and stage of trade-particular expertise of their CV.

Application

To apply for a 2026–2027 Artistic Research Fellowship, submit the next:

• 250-phrase summary of your mission.
• 1,500-phrase description of the mission you plan to work on whereas in residence on the Folger. Please emphasize your proposed subject’s impression, its relevance to the sphere, the originality and class of your strategy, and the feasibility of your analysis targets. Your proposal also needs to deal with a minimum of a preliminary plan for dissemination upon the mission’s completion. Please you’ll want to point out what number of months of analysis you’re making use of for (1, 2, or 3 months), why that’s an applicable size of time, and the way you’ll make the most of every month (nearly and/or on website).
• Two-page CV.
• One-page record of Folger sources you want to seek the advice of throughout your fellowship, together with collections supplies, publications, digital belongings, and/or different assets. Please seek the advice of the Folger’s Online Catalog and Finding Aids.
• One letter of advice. You will determine your recommender within the on-line application portal and might be given steerage on find out how to add their letter. Anyone is eligible to behave as a recommender: artists, students, lecturers, colleagues. They acknowledge that, resulting from persevering with contractions within the humanities, they’re all underneath distinctive and important pressures. Letters of advice are very useful to interdisciplinary choice committees as they work to know how a mission suits inside its area. Applications could also be deprived, however they aren’t rendered ineligible or formally penalized if they’re lacking a letter of advice.
• If you are feeling that portfolio supplies or a hyperlink to an internet portfolio will assist the choice committee to higher perceive your application, add them as one file by means of the application portal or present a hyperlink to your on-line portfolio in your proposal. DO NOT add portfolio supplies which can be unrelated to your proposed fellowship mission. Providing portfolio supplies is optionally available.

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For extra data, go to Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships.