FELLOWSHIPS AND TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS
The Joint Program offers financial assistance on a competitive basis annually and all rewards are renewable. The major criteria for awarding fellowships and other financial aid are academic excellence and scholarly promise, but need is also taken into consideration. Both MA and PhD candidates are eligible. Awards of financial assistance involve working as a teaching assistant or research assistant. Teaching assistants receive invaluable training for future academic positions as well as experience in giving museum gallery tours.
Cleveland Museum of Art/Case Western Reserve University Fellowships provide up to full tuition and an annual stipend of up to $6000. These awards require 10 hours per week of museum service, usually in a curatorial department. The fellowships include one two-year Cleveland Museum of Art Fellowship ($6,000/yr. plus full tuition) and up to fifteen Teaching and Research Assistantships ($6,000 plus full tuition).
Case Western Reserve University/MOCA Cleveland Emily Hall Tremaine Curatorial Fellowship This two year joint fellowship will provide full tuition and a $10,000 per year stipend to a talented doctoral student who wishes to purse a curatorial career in the contemporary art field and enrolls in the graduate program in art history at Case. The candidate must meet all requirements for admission to Case's Joint Program in Art History and Museum Studies as well as complement the profile of the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Both institutions must agree on the selection of the recipient; an interview in Cleveland will be required. The Emily Hall Tremaine Curatorial Fellow will have the opportunity to participate in the curatorial activities and exhibitions program of an important regional contemporary art center. The fellow will be guaranteed a leading curatorial role in at least one major exhibition, and will participate in the ongoing didactic and research activities of the center. The fellowship will entail a significant amount of writing, and will involve working with living artists, as well as some opportunities for public speaking through gallery tours, panels, and lectures. The candidate will be expected to complete coursework for the Case doctorate during the two years of this joint fellowship. Tuition for the requisite number of dissertation credits needed for completion of the degree will also be guaranteed subject to maintenance of a 3.5 GPA and satisfactory progress on the dissertation. Additional stipend assistance will be available on a competitive basis for the remainder of the period required to earn the Ph.D. The standard application for the Joint Program in Art History and Museum Studies should be used; please include in your essay a statement outlining your interest in and qualifications for this curatorial fellowship. For application and further information contact the Department Chair c/o dxt6@case.edu or 216-368-4118. Read comments from the 2000-2002 fellow, Amy Gilman .
Three Cleveland Foundation Gallery internships of $2,000/semester are also available.
Application deadline: February 15, 2009.
OTHER SOURCES OF FUNDING
Research and travel money is available on a competitive basis to enrolled graduate students. Requests should be submitted in writing to the departmental chair. Students who are delivering papers at the College Art Association annual meeting and graduate student symposia are normally given priority.
Information on student loans and work study programs is available from the Financial Aid Office, Yost Hall, Room 417A, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7049, phone: 216-368-4530.
Pancoast Fellowships are available through the office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies for women graduate students to fund travel and study abroad. Recent awardees in the Department of Art History and Art have spent a summer of language study in Florence, pre-dissertation research in Poland, and a course on Dutch and Flemish art in the collections of St. Petersburg, Russia.
For further information contact Debby Tenebaum at dxt6@case.edu
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