Samuel H. Kress Foundation Teaching Fellowship

Participants are required to attend all sessions, complete readings, prepare materials, and provide detailed feedback for their peers. 

Applications

A completed application will consist of a narrative statement of no more than two [2] pages and a CV, submitted as a single PDF to AAA-TWPS@si.edu. In their statement, applicants should:

• Address their current employment, in particular, their role and responsibilities in teaching undergraduates, including relevant courses recently taught (in the past 5 years), including class size, level, and content; 
• Describe their interest in learning more about provenance research, including relevance to undergraduate teaching role and responsibilities, and what (if any) previous opportunities they have had to learn about provenance research;
• Describe their interest in learning more about the digital humanities, including any previous experience with digital art history and relevance to undergraduate teaching role and responsibilities;
• Describe previous engagement, if any, with primary sources and archival material in undergraduate teaching;
• confirm their commitment to participating in all program activities; and 
• address how the fellowship would benefit their professional growth as a teacher and the classroom experience of their students. 

The application should also incorporate a letter of support from the applicant’s department chair or supervisor. This letter should address the feasibility of the applicant’s participation in the program, including incorporating the described learning outcomes in their pedagogy; professional development opportunities currently available to the applicant; and the benefit of faculty program participation for students. 

The application deadline is August 30, 2024. Applicants will be notified of the committee’s decision by September 13, 2024. For further information, please contact Marisa Bourgoin at AAA-TWPS@si.edu.

Teaching with Primary Sources has been generously supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. 

About the Archives of American Art 

Founded in 1954, the Archives of American Art fosters advanced research through the accumulation and dissemination of primary sources, unequaled in historical depth and breadth, that document more than two hundred years of our nation’s artists and art communities. The Archives provides access to these materials through its exhibitions and publications, including the Archives of American Art Journal, the longest-running scholarly journal in the field of American art. An international leader in the digitizing of archival collections, the Archives makes more than 3 million digital images freely available online. The Archives’ oral history collection includes more than 2,600 audio interviews, the largest accumulation of in-depth, first-person accounts of the American art world.  For more information, visit the Archives website at www.aaa.si.edu.

About the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation was established in 1929 to sustain and carry out the original vision of its founder, Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955). They support the work of individuals and institutions engaged with the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study, and teaching of the history of European art and architecture from antiquity to the dawn of the modern era.

They serve the field of art history as practiced in American art museums and institutions of higher education, and in an array of research centers and libraries throughout the world. They further support training and research in art conservation as well as the professional practice of art conservation.

They make grants in defined program areas and offer professional development fellowships for historians of art and architecture, art conservators, art museum curators and educators, and art librarians.