Research Fellowships
ICI Research Fellowships offer opportunities to leverage ICI’s programs and our international network of collaborators to travel, learn from one another, and pursue lines of inquiry into artistic and curatorial practices. ICI is expanding its program of curatorial Research Fellowships, with a focus on promoting experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement in the field. The expansion is primarily aimed towards ICI’s Curatorial Intensive alumni, and part of a series of new opportunities providing alumni with critical support as they move through the stages of their career. This Spring, new Research Fellowships will offer continued learning opportunities, mentorship, and support to four mid-career curators based anywhere around the world. Each fellowship is structured by the curator’s goals to develop new knowledge and their needs for the advancement of their practice. Fellows have access to advisement sessions with a mentor, to meetings with ICI Collaborators from across our network, and to travel opportunities to conduct their research. Updates on the development of the Fellows’ research will be posted on ICI’s Website through the end of the year. The new Research Fellowships will be announced in April, and will focus on independent curatorial practice in the Midwestern United States; the development of collaborative networks for art education in Southern Africa; and Indigenous curatorial and artistic practices, in conjunction with ICI’s traveling exhibition Soundings.
Over the last decade, ICI has developed Research Fellowships for emerging and mid-career curators, aimed at supporting them in the advancement of their practice and to generate new knowledge in the field. These Research Fellowships have complemented ICI’s professional development programs for curators at all career levels, from the Curatorial Intensive for emerging curators and the Curatorial Seminar for midcareer professionals, to other research-focused and network-building convenings for all professionals, such as the Curatorial Forum. ICI Research Fellowships were often created through partnerships with other organizations and foundations, such as the French Institute, the Joyce Foundation, and SAHA, as well as most recently with the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (see next pages for details on the ICI/ CPPC Travel Award).
For more information contact Monica Terrero at monica@curatorsintl.org. ICI’s new, expanded program of Research Fellowships in 2020 is made possible with the leading support of the Hartfield Foundation, and by grants from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, as well as generous contributions from the members of ICI’s Leadership Council.
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