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For Faculty: Arts

New Opportunity: Mellon Arts Residency Planning Grants

Underwritten by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Hurford Humanities Center has begun to develop a program for faculty across the three divisions to design and implement arts residencies in conjunction with their curricular and scholarly agendas. The Center seeks particularly to stimulate creation and enhancement of courses and broader curricular missions by supporting extended, multi-dimensional arts residencies that combine pedagogy, public presentation, and informal exchange among artists, faculty, students, and the wider campus and area communities. This program thus augments the Center's ongoing aim of stimulating thinking about how art in all media inflects and illuminates the wide variety of subjects considered throughout our curriculum.

By "artist" we mean not only practitioners of traditional media—fine arts; music; creative writing; filmmaking—but also a spectrum of creators, including innovative practitioners of scientific narrative and imaging, creative non-fiction writers, performance artists, multimedia practitioners, illustrators, architects, philosophical fantasists, sonic fabulists, environmental bricoleurs, explorers of virtual media and spaces, "outsider" image-makers, adventurous curators, and others working at the frontiers of what we think of as "art."

Rather than working from a single model, the Center hopes to cultivate in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities a diverse assortment of approaches to these residencies, which we envision varying in duration, frequency, focus, and methodology. Recognizing that residencies which unfold along a number of trajectories require careful preparation, the Mellon grant provides particularly for a period of planning during which faculty can, in collaboration with the artist(s), develop a residency's structure, goals, and logistical strategies.

We also hope to encourage varying models of collaboration, which might take place across departments (note: such partnerships can involve Fine Arts and/or Music faculty, but cannot be limited to either department alone), divisions, and even campuses (e.g., linking HC and BMC faculty). Possible uses of the grant's resources for planning these extended residencies include:

• Invitations to artists for short campus visits, during which they'll engage faculty and students in discussing how the work they do can be integrated into courses, departmental curricula, and/or the wider intellectual and cultural landscape of the campus;
• Visits by faculty to speak with artists about their work and possibilities for its presentation in various HC venues;
• Visits by faculty to exhibitions, performances, studios, archives, etc. in order to see how an artist and his/her work actually functions in various public and institutional spaces.

How to Apply

Funding for summer, 2009 will be awarded on a rolling basis, though we advise faculty where possible to apply by June 1, 2009. The fall deadline for applications will be September 4, 2009, with acceptance of later applications on a rolling basis as resources permit. We welcome faculty to consult with HHC staff in advance of submitting their applications. Applications should be submitted electronically to Emily Cronin: ecronin@haverford.edu.

Mellon Arts Residency Planning Grants Application Form

Past Mellon Arts Residency Planning Grants

2009-10

2008-09

Proposing an Arts Event:

For Faculty: Arts Events - Performances & Residencies
For Faculty: College Gallery Exhibitions

Application Forms:

Access Grant Application
Course Enhancement Application
Course Innovation or Renovation Application
Humanities Center Grant Application Form for Symposia, Talks or Readings (single or series), Performing Arts, Exhibitions, Film Screenings (single or series), Faculty Working Group, Summer Curricular Institutes, or Residency.

Past Arts Events

2008-09

Dialogues on Art

The Humanities Center strives to connect in an integrated way with the academic program and encourages interdisciplinary and faculty collaboration. Faculty are recruited to participate in the Center's "Dialogues on Art" series - through which participants – a small group of faculty and students from a wide variety of departments or majors - visit exhibitions, performances, or screenings of contemporary art in and around Philadelphia and then discuss the experience over dinner. The Center covers the travel, admission fees, and dinner.

The Center seeks to work in partnership with faculty and is open to faculty suggestions for programs, events, resources, and initiatives that deepen humanistic inquiry at Haverford.

For more information, or if you have an idea for a possible Dialogues trip, contact Associate Director James Weissinger at jweissin@haverford.edu.

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