Connecting Art Histories

Connecting Art Histories aims to strengthen art history globally by increasing opportunities for sustained intellectual exchange across nations and regions. Through grants that forge connections among people and ideas, this initiative affirms that the power and vitality of any scholarly discipline rest on the ability to bring people together.

• Intergenerational research seminars and visiting professor programs that have served over 1,000 early and mid-career scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, East-Central Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin
• Increased capacity in the field of art history in places where it is an emerging discipline through more than 80 grants since 2009
• Edited volumes emerging from at least four research seminars that have given scholars career-building opportunities to publish their work
• Presentations on Connecting Art Histories projects at major international conferences, including CIHA and the College Art Association

The Getty Foundation is exploring an evolution of the Connecting Art Histories initiative, which was launched in 2009 to strengthen the field globally by increasing opportunities for sustained intellectual exchange across nations and regions, especially in places where art history is an emerging discipline. Across many regions, art historians have been engaged in dynamic, interdisciplinary work aimed at expanding the interpretive range of the field. Building on this momentum, the Foundation welcomes proposals from regional project teams that bring together art historians with scholars from adjacent disciplines; arts professionals such as curators, conservators, and artists; and individuals whose expertise is rooted in local traditions and cultural stewardship. By more intentionally supporting collaborations that bring art historians into dialogue with others invested in understanding art, we aim to open new possibilities for advancing a more adaptive, connected, and relevant discipline across diverse geographies and intellectual traditions.

Connecting Art Histories has consistently focused on regions where economic or political realities have prevented collaboration in the past. Our early efforts concentrated on funding programs that served the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America, but we subsequently expanded our focus to include the Asia and East-Central Europe.

The core activities that we have typically supported through Connecting Art Histories grants train younger scholars and build their professional networks with peers and advanced researchers through immersive seminars, virtual convenings, dissertation workshops, and graduate courses.

Please address inquiries to:

Phone: (310) 440-7320

Email: gettyfoundation@getty.edu
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