Guggenheim Fellowship - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Link to Opportunity
https://www.gf.org/Funding Type
- Artists and Creative Practitioners
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Funding Categories
- Portable
- Fellowships
Deadlines
- September
Description
The Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation of any artform, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants awarded to around 175 selected individuals every year.
The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. As such, grants are made freely, without any special conditions attached to them; Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. The United States Internal Revenue Service, however, does require the Foundation to ask for reports from its Fellows at the end of their Fellowship terms.
Click here for application resources and the competition timeline, and please note the following from the FAQs regarding eligibility: https://www.gf.org/faqs/ :
How does the Foundation define “advanced professional”?
“The Foundation understands advanced professionals to be those who as writers, scholars, or scientists have a significant record of publication, or as artists, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, composers, or the like, have a significant record of exhibition or performance of their work.”
How does the Foundation define “performing arts”?
“The Foundation understands the performing arts to be those in which an individual interprets work created by others. Accordingly, the Foundation will provide Fellowships to composers but not conductors, singers, or instrumentalists; choreographers but not dancers; filmmakers, playwrights, and performance artists who create their own work but not actors or theater directors.”