Hey, good news from the College Art Association!

Thought some of you might be interested in this...

At its meeting on May 2, 2010, the CAA Board of Directors voted to restore several important programs for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. After a year of conservative budgeting in response to the economic downturn, the board eased financial constraints on the following programs that benefit CAA members.

Below are the highlights; see http://bit.ly/9I8bFP for full details.

Fellowships to MFA students
In 2010, CAA will award five Professional Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts of $5,000 each to outstanding students who will receive MFA degrees in calendar year 2011. CAA hopes that Professional Development Fellowships in Art History can again be awarded to doctoral candidates in 2011.

Art writing grant(s) that support individual projects

2010 GRANT APPLICATION NOW OPEN
Application Deadline — Monday, June 7, 2010

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants in the following categories:

• Articles
• Blogs
• Books
• New and Alternative Media
• Short-Form Writing

Grants range from $3,000 to $50,000 depending on the needs and scope of the project.
Designed to encourage and reward writing about contemporary art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent and precise, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.

here are the guidelines