ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT

The ICMA Advocacy Seed Grant is an annual grant for local initiatives in public scholarly engagement and outreach, student mentoring (from grade school to graduate), and projects that advance the ICMA's commitment to inclusion in the field. These grants could be used to support initiatives including, but not limited to: group visits to special collections/museum exhibitions, curricular development, workshops and student training, community/artist conversations, website design, equipment, and outreach to local classrooms.

We especially encourage applications that will support the initiation or continuation of longer-term projects, but all projects will be considered. Proposals should describe the project’s aims and audience (including short and long-term goals), and the ways in which it will engage the intended audience in a meaningful understanding of medieval art, broadly conceived.

Grants are available for up to US $1,500. Depending on the number of proposals received, the committee may decide to divide the total available funds (US $1,500) into multiple smaller awards or to give the full grant to a single recipient.

All applicants must be ICMA members.

Applications are due by Thursday 18 May 2023. To submit, upload your CV, 1 page proposal (single-spaced), itemized budget, and list of potential collaborators and target engagement audience HERE.

For questions, please contact awards@medievalart.org.

PAST RECIPIENTS

2022
Diane Wolfthal in support of Introducing Medieval Art to the Phillis Wheatley High School Students in Houston, Texas
The ICMA Advocacy Seed Grant helped support the educational program focused on introducing global medieval art to traditionally underserved populations. The grant funded two visits by 30-40 students to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Menil Collection with visits to their medieval collections to be led by Diane Wolfthal and Linda Neagley, professors emeritae from Rice University, and two doctoral students. Dr. Paul Davis, curator of collections, spoke about the outstanding collection of medieval African art at the Menil Collection. Rachel Mohl, curator at the MFAH, spoke about the museum’s art of Spain and Latin America. The short-term aim of the grant is to introduce this group of students to medieval art in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Issues explored included the art’s intellectual complexity as well as its visual power and the cultural (often ideological) work that art performed in different societies

2021
Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan in support of their project Mapping Eastern Europe
https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu
Mapping Eastern Europe is a new open-access interactive website intended to promote study, research, and teaching about the history, art, and culture of Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries. On the site, users can access historical overviews, art historical case studies, short notices about ongoing research projects, as well as reviews of recent books and exhibitions.