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American Tapestry Alliance Student Award
The new “ATA Student Award” is designed to encourage fiber arts students to study the art of Tapestry. The prize is $250, a one year student membership to ATA and a feature article in the ATA quarterly newsletter. This award will be offered annually to students who are currently enrolled in a college fiber program. Students entering the competition will submit both visual and written material in a CD format.

Students will apply by the 15th of April each year with the winner announced in time for recognition at their graduation. The full details of the Student Award are posted on the ATA website: http://www.americantapestryalliance.com.

Gervers Research Fellowship
in Costume and Textile History
Up to CAN$9000 will be awarded to a scholar working on any aspect of textile or costume history. Research must incorporate, or support, ROM collections, which cover a broad range of time and geography. For information, contact:

Chair, Veronika Gervers Memorial Fellowship
Textile and Costume Section - NEAC
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6
Telephone (416) 586-5790
Fax (416) 586-5877
E-mail: textiles@rom.on.ca
Internet: http:// www.rom.on.ca

 

Getty Research Grants
Nov. 1 annual deadline: The Getty Grant program provides Non residential postdoctoral fellowships, curatorial research fellowships, and funding for collaborative research projects. In addition, other Getty programs offer various residential research fellowships at the Getty Center.

See http://www.getty.edu/grants/funding/research/index.html for detailed information and applications, or write:

Getty Grant Program
1200 getty Center Dr., Ste. 800
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1685.
310/440-7703
email researchgrants@getty.edu.