Visual AIDS’ Research Fellowship Program is open for applications through October 5!

About the Open Call

Visual AIDS announces the fourth year of our research fellowship program, which supports original writing and scholarship about artists who have been lost to AIDS. Research fellows will work with Visual AIDS to develop a piece of original writing for the Visual AIDS website, illuminating the life and work of an artist lost to AIDS. The Visual AIDS Research Fellowship will provide four fellows with a $1000 research stipend and editorial support. Fellows will conduct research on artists who have been lost to AIDS, drawing on primary sources in the Visual AIDS Archive Project and other archival collections, as well as interviews with estates, families, and friends. This year we will award one fellowship focused specifically on Garland Eliason-French (1942–1996), a painter who was one of the first ten artists to join the Visual AIDS Archive in 1994. Three other fellowships will be awarded for research proposals about other artists lost to AIDS.

What is Offered

The Visual AIDS Research Fellowship will provide four fellows with a $1000 research stipend and editorial support.

Requirements

Research fellows will work with Visual AIDS to develop a piece of original writing for the Visual AIDS website. Fellows will conduct research on artists who have been lost to AIDS, drawing on primary sources in the Visual AIDS Archive Project and other archival collections, as well as interviews with estates, families, and friends. One fellowship will focus specifically on Garland Eliason-French (1942–1996), and three other fellowships will be awarded for research proposals about other artists lost to AIDS.

How to Apply

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