Clark Fellowships application portal opens July 1 for 2027-28 cycle

The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) awards funded residential fellowships to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. As part of our commitment to fostering diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP particularly seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically been underrepresented in the discipline.

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The Clark is delighted to announce two new fellowships this year:

WYETH FELLOWSHIP FOR AMERICAN ART HISTORIES

The Wyeth Fellowship promotes research in the history of American art and visual culture, including Native Art. The fellowship welcomes research projects addressing the art, artists, and material culture of the United States from the colonial era to mid-twentieth century.

MESLAY AND MARGERIE FELLOWSHIP

This fellowship is awarded to international scholars and museum professionals in art history working outside of the United States. We welcome projects with any geographic or temporal focus. The fellowship honors former Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute, Olivier Meslay, and his wife, Laure de Margerie, a foremost scholar of French sculpture, both of whom were Clark Fellows from August 2000 to June 2001.

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All fellows receive a stipend; are provided offices in the open-stack, 280,000-volume art history library of the Manton Research Center; apartments in the gracious residence across the street from our 140-acre campus; and reimbursement of travel expenses. Fellowships typically last for one semester, but longer- and shorter-term opportunities are available.

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For more information and application details, please visit clarkart.edu/rap/fellowship.

The application portal may be directly reached at clarkart.smapply.io

Applications are due by October 15, 2026, for the fellowship residency period covering July 2027 through June 2028.