Fellowships and Internships
The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, invites applications for fellowships in support of research using the Center's archive, fine print, and rare book collections. Our goal is to promote new knowledge about photography, photographic history, and photographic theory. Fellowship applications are evaluated within this context.
Each academic year since 1987, the Center also has offered a paid internship to qualified University of Arizona graduate students. This opportunity allows students to experience a wide variety of museum and archive activities and to gain experience working under the supervision of Center staff.
2012 Fellowship Awards
Ansel Adams Research Fellowships have been awarded to the following:
Brett Abbott, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, for research in the Wynn Bullock Archive and photograph collection in preparation for a retrospective exhibition and book project. Widely admired as one of the great photographers working in the tradition of West Coast modernist photography, Bullock’s work has not been the focus of a major museum retrospective in recent years.
Stephanie Jill Schwartz, Lecturer at Arts of the Americas, University College in London, England, will research the intersection of film and photography in the 1930s in order to contextualize Paul Strand’s films in relation to his photography. Throughout his career Strand not only moved seamlessly between the two media, he often combined them. Her project, Film Stills: Paul Strand and American Media, will focus on this particularly under-researched area of Strand’s work.
Brian Winkenweder, Associate Professor of Art History at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, will research the Hans Namuth Archive in preparation for a book, Picturing Modernism: A Study of Hans Namuth’s Films and Photos. This project will present Namuth’s contribution to modern art and the historical reception of his photographs and films of painter Jackson Pollock, which influenced the trajectory of post-war art in the United States.
Edward Weston Family Research Fellowships have been awarded to the following:
Susan Ehrens, independent scholar, curator, lecturer, and archivist, in support of her project, Imogen Cunningham: Photography and Modernism. She will focus her research in the Archive and photography collection of Edward Weston in order to understand the relationship between Weston and Imogen Cunningham ‒ their friendship, their mutual respect for each other’s work as expressed in correspondence and in published critical reviews, and similarities in their stylistic development.
Karin Higa, PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Southern California, for research on her dissertation, At the Margins of American Modernism: Art, Orientalism, and Cosmopolitan Culture in Little Tokyo and Los Angeles, 1919-1942. Edward Weston and others in his circle such as Margrethe Mather built relationships with Japanese American artists during that period, shaped, in part, by their fascination with and knowledge of Oriental art and culture.
2012 Ansel Adams Internship Award
Rachel Sadvary - Rachel Sadvary completed a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh while serving as a graduate assistant in the Registrar’s office at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She is currently enrolled in the Master's in Art History program at the University of Arizona and her professional goal is to become a museum collections manager or archivist. While at the CCP, Rachel will be working primarily with the Registration department.
Fellowships Deadline: November 15, 2011
Fellowships are awarded for projects that require an extended period of research in the collections of the Center. Awards in amounts up to $5,000 will support two to four weeks of study at the Center.
- Milton Rogovin Research Fellowship, which awards up to $5,000 to support research into the art and career of Milton Rogovin (1909-2011) and socially concerned photography.
- Josef Breitenbach Research Fellowship, which awards up to $5,000 to support research into the art and career of Josef Breitenbach (1896-1984) and as his work and archive relates to other works and archives in the Center's collections.
- Edward Weston Family Research Fellowship, which awards up to $5,000 to support research on the art, career, and influence of Edward Weston (1886-1958), his family, models, and friends.
- Ansel Adams Research Fellowship, which awards up to $5,000 to promote new knowledge about photography and the history of photography.
Qualifications
Scholars from any discipline are encouraged to apply. Pre-doctoral applicants must have completed coursework and preliminary examinations for the doctoral degree, and must be engaged in dissertation research.
Application process
Send a cover letter, curriculum vitae of no more than four pages, and a brief statement detailing the candidate's research interests and how they will be advanced by study of the Center's archives and print collection. Attention will be given to the candidates' statement concerning the value of the Center's holdings in investigating those interests. Please visit the Center's website for more information about collections. Applicants may also address questions about the collections to the Head of the Laura Volkerding Study Center, Leslie Squyres, at squyresl@ccp.library.arizona.edu.
Applications should be emailed to: Cass Fey, Curator of Education, cass@ccp.library.arizona.edu.
Applications must be sent via email by November 15, 2011
Selection Process
Selection is based on the quality of the proposed research and its relationship to the Center's collections. Decisions will be announced by email on or before December 31, 2011. Residencies must be scheduled with the Volkerding Study Center Staff. Fellowships recipients and their research projects will be announced in the Center's publicity.
The Ansel Adams Internship at the Center for Creative Photography
Postmark Deadline: April 20, 2012
Each academic year since 1987 the Center has offered a paid internship to qualified University of Arizona graduate students. This opportunity allows students to experience a wide variety of museum and archive activities and to gain experience working under the supervision of Center staff. Depending on student interest and current Center needs an internship is designed each year for a specific project. Past interns have been assigned to work with Center staff in the curatorial, education, archives, and digital scanning areas.
Eligibility
Open to full-time new or continuing University of Arizona graduate students with at least a 3.5 GPA (Board of Regents requirement). Students may be pursuing graduate degrees in any discipline, but must have evidenced sufficient interest in the fields of photography, art history, art education, archives, library science, or museum studies to indicate that an internship at the Center would support their educational goals.
Application process
- Submit a letter of interest indicating educational background, relevant personal accomplishments, educational and professional goals, and an indication of how you would envision working with Center staff. If you are basing your proposal on an existing or new Center project, you are advised to discuss this possibility in advance with the appropriate Center staff. The most important component of this letter is a clear statement of the effect an internship would have on achievement of the candidate's goals.
- Submit a letter of recommendation from at least one faculty member in the applicant's college. Incoming students should submit a recommendation letter from their most recent college.
- Submit a copy of the most current University of Arizona grade transcript. Incoming students should submit a copy of their most recent transcript.
- Applications must be postmarked April 20, 2012, or be hand delivered to the Administrative Offices, Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road, Tucson, AZ 85721-0103.
- Notification of the internship for 2012/2013 will be made by May 11, 2012.
Selection process
Choice of the 2012/2013 intern will be made by a committee composed of the Center's Curator of Education and other staff. An interview may be required. Please be sure to include current local contact information including email address and telephone number.
Expectations
The intern must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student during the fall 2012 and spring 2013 semesters at the University of Arizona. In order to take full advantage of the internship, the intern will be expected to spend approximately 15 hours per week on site. Work schedules are flexible with the approval of the sponsoring Center staff member.
Value
The internship award is a stipend of up to $4,000 plus a tuition scholarship for the 2012/2013 academic year at the University of Arizona.
Further information
Contact Cass Fey, Curator of Education, 626-5211; cass@ccp.library.arizona.edu.