James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for the James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft. This fellowship is available for research in American studio crafts or decorative arts from the nineteenth century to the present. Fellowships support independent and dissertation research. Terms of residency range from three to twelve months.
January 15 is the application deadline for fellowships to begin the following June.
For general information visit www.AmericanArt.si.edu/fellowships or contact the American Art Museum’s Fellowship Office at 202-633-8353 or AmericanArtFellowships@si.edu. For applications call Office of Fellowships at 202-633-7070 or visit www.si.edu/research+study. The application form is available here.
2009-2010 Fellow:
Dana Byrd, Predoctoral Fellow, Yale University
“Reconstructions: The Material Culture of the Postbellum Plantation, 1861–77”
Her residency begins in September 2009.
2008-09 Fellow:
Janneken Smucker, Predoctoral Fellow,University of Delaware
“From Rags to Riches: Amish Quilts and the Crafting of Value.”
2007-08 Fellows:
Cynthia A. Fowler, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emmanuel College
“Hooked Rugs and American Modernism”Caroline Hannah, Predoctoral Fellow, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the History of Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
“Between Art, Craft, and Design: Henry Varnum Poor and the Making of an American Artist”
2006 Fellows:
Marie Frank, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“Denman Ross and American Formalist Aesthetics in the Early Twentieth Century”Kimberly Hyde, Predoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University
“Louis C. Tiffany and the Business of Art”