Deadline: 15 October 2015
The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation is accepting applications for the James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship, the Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Fellowship, and the biennial Richard L. Blinder Award.
Focus Areas
Historic preservation or related fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, architectural conservation, urban design, environmental planning, archaeology, architectural history, and the decorative arts
Grant Categories
The James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship: Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to one or two mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience, and an established identity in one or more of the following: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history, and/or the decorative arts. The foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or execution of preservation-related projects in any of these fields.
The Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Fellow: Research grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to one mid-career professional whose research project, in the context of historic preservation in the United States, relates to the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study, and teaching of European art, architecture, and related disciplines, from antiquity to the early 19th century. Potential Kress Fellow projects could include the exploration of shared European and American influences in style, design, materials, construction techniques, building types, conservation, and interpretation methodologies; philosophical and theoretical attitudes; and other factors applicable to architectural preservation in both Europe and America.
The Richard L. Blinder Award: An award of up to $15,000 will be presented to an architect holding a professional degree or a valid license to practice architecture for a proposal exploring the preservation of an existing structure, complex of buildings, or genre of building type through addition, renovation, or other means. The proposal may focus on a real project, or it may be a polemical exercise; in either case, originality is highly valued. The proposal must advance architectural preservation in the United States.
Selection Criteria
Projects will be evaluated based on a range of criteria, including the potential for the project to make a meaningful contribution to the academic and/or professional field of historic preservation in the United States and the innovativeness and creativity of the planned project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are awarded only to individuals. The foundation does not fund university-sponsored research projects or dissertation research.
- Applicants must be mid-career professionals with at least ten years’ experience in historic preservation or related fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, architectural conservation, urban design, environmental planning, archaeology, architectural history, and the decorative arts.
- In addition, applicants must be legal residents or citizens of the United States.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted electronically, in PDF format. Applicants are required to submit the following materials:
- Cover page, including Project Title; Name of Applicant(s), including primary contact person; Applicant Address; Phone; Email. Also, please specify whether you are applying for the Fitch Mid-Career Grant or the Richard L. Blinder Award; and specify the amount of grant money requested.
- Brief description of project, including how the final work product will be disseminated. Applicants are encouraged to be succinct and the description is not to exceed three (3) pages.
- Detailed work schedule and project budget, showing the grant amount requested from the Fitch Foundation and how this money will be spent.
- Curriculum Vita, including professional and academic background, and past and present grants received.
- Two (2) letters of support for the project to be included with the application.
For more information, please visit Charitable Foundation Applications.
