The Kress Foundation supports a range of fellowships in art history, conservation, museum education and curation. For a complete list of who is eligible for fellowships, please see: Fellowships.

For the Art History Travel Fellowships and Art History Institutional Fellowships we require four copies - one original set and three additional copies of all the required materials. The copies are distributed to a three-person fellowship external review panel. We recognize that obtaining multiple copies of one’s transcript can be costly, therefore we do accept photocopies as long as there is one sealed original transcript included in the application materials.

For Conservation and Interpretive Art Museum fellowships, only one set of all materials is required.

For the Art History Travel Fellowships and Art History Institutional Fellowships notification is typically sent in early March.

For Conservation and Interpretive Art Museum Fellowships notification is usually sent four – six weeks after the all materials have been received.

Yes.

The Kress Foundation views its support of art history publishing as a key component of our grant programs and the Foundation has been evaluating its approach to publication subventions in order to feel confident that the support we provide for publishing in art history has the greatest possible impact on the field; that we are supporting the most worthy publication projects in European art history; that we are serving, as equitably as possible, the entire range of fields (from antiquity to the early modern era) about which we care; that our support is being offered with transparency and across a level playing field with respect to the relevant publishers and prospective authors; and that the proposals we receive are being assessed as judiciously and in as well-informed a way as possible.  With these goals in mind, the Foundation is currently seeking to establish ongoing partnerships with key scholarly organizations that will be sustainable over time, through which these organizations, themselves recipients of Kress funding, will administer our support for art history publishing in their key areas of interest, soliciting and assessing applications, and making appropriate awards.

You must be a Ph.D. candidate to apply for the Fellowships, but do not have to be ABD by the application deadline date, although we require that you have ABD status by the time the Fellowship begins. If you are not ABD at the time of application, and are accepted for the Fellowship, you are expected to notify the Foundation once your ABD status is confirmed.

The Kress Foundation does not provide specific commentary from reviewers. The fellowship programs are competitive and decisions are based not only on the strength of your proposal but also on the comparative merit of competing proposals, as assessed by our review panel and Foundation staff. When requested, we will attempt to provide a summary of reviewer and staff appraisals.

There are different requirements for each fellowship.
History of Art: Travel Fellowships: candidates must be nominated by their academic department.
History of Art: Institutional Fellowships: candidates must be nominated by their academic department.
Conservation Fellowships: applications must be submitted by the museum or conservation research facility that will host the fellowship.
Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums: applications must be submitted by the museum that will host the fellowship

For the Art History Travel Fellowships and Art History Institutional Fellowships an academic department may nominate only one candidate for each of the fellowships. In cases where two departments at a single university are completely independent of one another – such as the Department of Architecture and the Department of Art History – each department may submit one nominee per fellowship.

For the Conservation and Interpretive Art Museum fellowships, each institution may have only one nominee for each fellowship except in instances in which a fellowship is expressly conceived as a paired fellowship.

No. The Kress Foundation is not required to report individual recipients of fellowships to the Internal Revenue Service. But fellowship recipients are required to claim the Kress Fellowship on their tax returns in accordance with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which places more accountability on award recipients. More information can be found on the IRS website: http://www.irs.gov/individuals/students/article/0,,id=96674,00.html

Yes.

The Kress Foundation views its support of art history publishing as a key component of our grant programs and the Foundation has been evaluating its approach to publication subventions in order to feel confident that the support we provide for publishing in art history has the greatest possible impact on the field; that we are supporting the most worthy publication projects in European art history; that we are serving, as equitably as possible, the entire range of fields (from antiquity to the early modern era) about which we care; that our support is being offered with transparency and across a level playing field with respect to the relevant publishers and prospective authors; and that the proposals we receive are being assessed as judiciously and in as well-informed a way as possible.  With these goals in mind, the Foundation is currently seeking to establish ongoing partnerships with key scholarly organizations that will be sustainable over time, through which these organizations, themselves recipients of Kress funding, will administer our support for art history publishing in their key areas of interest, soliciting and assessing applications, and making appropriate awards.

As we begin to forge these relationships and to restructure our support for art history publishing, the Foundation will itself continue to accept applications for publications the scope of which fall outside the areas being supported in this way.  Currently, the Foundation has partnerships in place with the International Center of Medieval Art and the Renaissance Society of America, and we hope to announce additional collaborations in the coming months.

History of Art: January 15, April 15, and October 15
Conservation: January 15, April 15, and October 15
Digital Resources: April 15 and October 15
Responsive Grants are accepted at any time.

No, but we do post the Foundation’s Annual Reports for the last five years, which include a list of all grants awarded that year.

If your proposal does not require approval from our Board of Trustees (most requests less than $25,000), notification is typically given within four-six weeks from the time all materials are received. For those applications requiring consideration by our Board of Trustees, which convenes three times a year, you will receive a letter telling you when to expect a decision.

No. Presently the Kress Foundation only accepts applications in printed form. But you are welcome to share drafts with us via email in advance and are encouraged to send the text of your final proposal and budget to info@kressfoundation.org.

No, one copy is sufficient.

Yes. The Kress Foundation does not limit the number of applications that organizations may submit at any given time. Neither does the Foundation place a limit upon the number of grants that may be awarded to a single institution simultaneously.

The Kress Foundation requests detailed budgets because in some instances we may wish to identify specific components of a project that are particularly appropriate for Foundation support.

The Foundation requires its funding be allocated toward direct costs only.

We can only award grants to American organizations that are registered as non-profits with the Internal Revenue Service. International applicants must identify a U.S. non-profit as the financial agent for their proposal, and provide a copy of that organization’s IRS Determination Letter to confirm its 501(c) 3 status. The Foundation does not pay grants directly to individuals.

The Foundation Center is an excellent online resource with a database of grant makers and other helpful information for those seeking funding.

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