Getty Residential Grants

Come join the Getty community at one of our campuses

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2023 Conservation Guest Scholars Karen Mack and Jorgen Wadum—two of the several residential scholars Getty welcomes each year—talk on the balcony of the East Building at the Getty Center.

About

While in residence at the Getty Center or Villa, scholars are welcomed into our active intellectual community where they pursue research projects with wide access to Getty collections and staff expertise. These residential grants provide numerous benefits, including:

Space for Study

Residential scholars receive a dedicated office or workspace, with easy access to extensive collections, archives, and state-of-the-art conservation labs.

Free Housing and Transportation

Residential scholars are housed at an apartment building nearby with free shuttle transportation to the Getty Center.

Intellectual Collaboration

Residential scholars are part of an engaged, international, and multigenerational cohort of researchers who come to Getty each year.

Article There and Back Again

Getty Scholars map the human histories of art and migration

A light-skinned woman in an elegant dress sits on the bed next to a toy doll. Behind her is a maid with darker skin in uniform. Both figures appear to be the same woman
En el cuarto de la niña (In the girl’s room), 2010, Rachelle Mozman Solano. Print, 23 x 26 in. © Rachelle Mozman Solano. Courtesy the artist

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