A great opportunity is here again! The Clark Art Institute, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is offering residential fellowships, including the Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellowship. Fellowship applications for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027, are now open. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2025.
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. In addition to the general Clark Fellowships, which are open to any topic, time period, and geographic focus, RAP offers a number of special fellowships for specific research interests that are intended to nurture a variety of disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history. This includes our Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellowship:
Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellowship
The Caribbean is home to some of the most influential critical theorists, poets, writers, and artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This fellowship supports art historians, artists, critics, and writers who are engaging with the complexity of critical Caribbean scholarship, art, and visual practices today.
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.
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, 2025, for the fellowship period covering summer 2026–spring 2027.
Contact Information: rap@clarkart.edu
Contact Email: nderksen@clarkart.edu
For guidelines, see https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/fellowship-program/guidelines-for-clark-fellowship-application
Source: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20121064/clark-art-institute-fellowships
[Shown above, (unrelated) press photo by Kate Abbott, courtesy of the Clark Art Institute: Detail. Kathia St. Hilaire’s “La Sirene” honors a Loa, a divine woman of the sea, in Vodou lore and ritual. For more on the artist, see https://btwberkshires.com/arts/visual-arts/kathia-st-hilaire/]