Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Mid-Career Fellowships to Support Research and Artistic Creation

Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months. Since the purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible, grants are made freely. No special conditions attach to them, and 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.  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.  The Foundation will provide Fellowships to scholars and artists in disciplines including the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. Fellowships to performing artists are restricted to those who create their own work; those who interpret the work of others are excluded from this call. Accordingly, the Foundation will award 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. Awards are given to individuals only. Link to the complete RFP: http://www.gf.org/about-the-foundation/the-fellowship/ For application instructions, visit: http://www.gf.org/applicants/how-to-apply/