The Kress Foundation sponsors a range of fellowship programs, many of which are administered independently by host institutions. Beginning in the Fall of 2011, the Conservation Fellowships are being administered by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation; and the History of Art: Institutional Fellowships are administered by the six European research centers hosting the fellows. The Foundation continues to administer directly the Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums. Other Kress Foundation sponsored fellowship partners include:
American Academy in Rome
Established in 1894, and chartered by an Act of Congress in 1905, the American Academy in Rome is a center that sustains independent artistic pursuits and humanistic studies. Through an annual national competition the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 scholars and 15 emerging artists. In 1977, the Kress Foundation began supporting a pre-doctoral scholarly prize in art history.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, founded in 1979, is a research institute that fosters study of the production, use and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, and urbanism, from prehistoric times to the present. CASVA encourages a variety of approaches by historians, critics, and theorists of art, as well as by scholars in related disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. The Kress Foundation gives an annual grant to the CASVA in support of a Kress Professor, two senior fellows and two pre-doctoral fellows of art history. The Foundation began this partnership with CASVA when it started in 1979, as an extension of the support the Foundation was awarding the National Gallery of Art for other fellowships programs since 1965. You may view or download a copy of the National Gallery of Art's fellowship history with the Kress Foundation, A Generous Vision: Samuel H. Kress Professors 1965-1995.
American School of Classical Studies at athens
Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies provides graduate students and scholars from affiliated North American colleges and universities a base for the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day. The Kress Foundation began awarding the ASCS grants in 1966 for fellowships in art history and publications.
Other
A number of other scholarly institutions administer fellowship programs on behalf of, and with funding from, the Kress Foundation. These fellowship partners include: the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation; the Archaeological Institute of America; the Harvard University Art Museum's Strauss Center for Conservation; Harvard's Villa I Tatti; the International Center of Medieval Art; the Northeast Document Conservation Center; the Renaissance Society of America; the Warburg Institute; and Yale University.