The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in art and visual culture of the United States.
Fellowships support independent and dissertation research.
The collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum spans the nation's artistic heritage, representing outstanding visual accomplishments to the present day. Modern and contemporary American craft is featured in the Renwick Gallery, a curatorial department of the museum that is located across from the White House at 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue in a restored building designed in 1858 by James Renwick. The gallery features a permanent collection of American crafts in glass, ceramic, wood, fiber, and metal. Scholars are located in new facilities across the street from the museum in downtown Washington, D.C., and a short walk from other Smithsonian museums and libraries, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives. In addition, The Sara Roby Fellowship in Twentieth-Century American Realism is awarded to a scholar whose research topic matches the Sara Roby Foundation's interest in American realism.