The Archives of American Art is pleased to invite applications from undergraduate faculty whose teaching responsibilities focus primarily on art history to participate in a six-month virtual teaching fellowship that will run from October 2024 through April 2025. Deadline for submission: August 30, 2024
Call for Participation:
The program will focus on provenance and we are seeking to support United States and international faculty who have had little opportunity to develop skills in provenance or art market studies. Extensive use will be made of the digitized records of dealer Jacques Seligmann & Co.
Provenance and art market studies have proven to be particularly salient for digital and computational approaches. We are also seeking to support faculty who have little opportunity to develop skills in digital art history so that they may incorporate such approaches in their teaching.
We value diversity and strive for broad representation among participants, including faculty from city or community colleges or who lack professional development opportunities.
Learning Outcomes:
As a result of this program, faculty will be better prepared to incorporate provenance research and digital art history approaches into their curriculum and impart these skills to their students. They will also be supported in introducing students to career pathways in museums, archives, and the art market. They will advance their primary source literacy and how they can enhance student engagement and learning through developing skills in creative and critical reading of primary sources.
Program Description:
This six-month fellowship will involve meeting via Zoom or TEAMS twice a month for seminars with prominent guest speakers, peer-to-peer feedback sessions, and focused workshops. The curriculum is designed to help each participant create teaching modules and assignments that center provenance research and digital art history and make use of Archives’ online resources. Fellows will work closely with Archives staff and consult with the program’s experienced mentors, who will provide expert guidance and feedback.
Upon conclusion of Fellowship recipients will be required to submit a sample teaching module and assignment to the Archives by June 1, 2025 to be made available online via the Archives’ website and/or the Smithsonian Learning Lab platform. In addition to responding to a final program evaluation, they will also be asked to provide feedback about the experience implementing their teaching module and assignment by the end of the 2025-2026 academic year.
Each of the ten fellows, selected by a review panel, will be awarded an honorarium of $5,000 for participation in the program. Participants will also receive a $1,000 Digitization on Demand stipend for digitizing materials not available on the Archives website but deemed necessary for their teaching.
For additional information, visit: www.aaa.si.edu/about/teaching-with-primary-sources-2024-2025
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