Opportunities

All prize, residency, and fellowship opportunities for SoA students can be found the forthcoming 2023-24 Student Opportunities Spreadsheet.

Plan ahead and view the 2023-24 Student Opportunities Timeline here >> (downloads as PDF)

For all School of Art MFAs

School of Art hourly work-study opportunities for the Fall 2023 semester have been posted to the Student Hub >>

You will find the job library and application under the “WORK STUDY OPPORTUNITIES” section. This library will be updated as jobs fill or as new jobs are posted.

This library only lists jobs available at the School of Art. Other work-study jobs across Yale can be found at the Yale Student Employment website >>

Join the All-School Design Call List

The School of Art’s Communications Office is assembling our annual list of students interested in being placed on a call list to receive opportunities for small one-time design jobs and to produce email publication graphics. These one-time jobs are open to MFA students in all areas of study, and graphics can take any form as long as the requirements laid out in each job description are met.

When a new job becomes available, an email will go out to this call list with the job description, due date, and pay rate. Pay ranges from $75–$300 per job and images/materials must be submitted at the provided Dropbox link before payment is released. In the interest of fairness, the first student to respond to each job with their availability to produce the materials by the listed deadline will be hired—except in special cases for exceptionally big jobs, in which case we might ask for links to past work or an intended design concept before commissioning.

(A little more about how this list works: When you receive a commission, you’re removed from the call list for the remainder of the semester, and possibly the academic year depending on how many students sign up for this list / express interest in creating something for the School. Our goal is to make sure everyone who signs up is eventually commissioned!)

Reply to the email that went out on August 23, or email Assistant Director of Communications Lindsey Mancini to join the All-School Graphics Call List at any point throughout the academic year if you’d like to be placed on this call list in the future.

Writing Workshop at Poorvu: Academic Research and Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Poorvu Center is hosting a writing workshop series for graduate and professional school students!

Graduate school is full of academic research projects, from seminar papers, to research proposals, to dissertation chapters. Wondering how to conceptualize, design, organize, and refine your project? Register for this fall series that will give you guidance on how to streamline your process and expand your toolkit, from initial research strategies, to drafting techniques, to tips for refining your prose.

The sessions are:

1. Reading and Note-Taking Strategies (10/3) - Poorvu Center, Room 121
2. Writing Your Literature Review (10/10) - Room 121
3. Entering into the Academic Conversation (10/24) - Room 121
4. Argument, Evidence, and Structure (10/31) - Room 121
5. Ethical Attribution and Citation (11/7) - Room 121
6. Revising and Editing Strategies (11/14) - Room 121

Register here to attend > 

Applications now open! Belonging at Yale Student Grants

Under Belonging at Yale, the Office of the Secretary and Vice President for University Life invites applications for Belonging at Yale Grants. All Yale students and registered student organizations may apply for funding for a program, event, or speaker that promotes a sense of belonging and community at Yale:

• increasing the diversity of the Yale community;
• educating the community about challenges to inclusion on campus and in society;
• contributing to anti-racism efforts;
• facilitating conversations around diversity, equity and access or between differing perspectives and opinions;
• deepening a culture of respect and connection;
• encouraging and enhancing cultural competence;
• developing accessibility measures on campus;
• creating and fostering a welcoming campus climate

Grants will generally be no greater than $2000. The first round of applications will be reviewed after October 6, 2023. Apply here >

For additional information please contact Yasmeen Abed, Woodbridge Fellow, at yasmeen.abed@yale.edu. 

The Peabody Museum seeks an Imaging and Recording Studios Technician

Under the supervision of the Imaging and Recording Studio Manager in the Student Programs Oce, the Imaging and Recording Studios Technician assists with the daily running of the Imaging and Recording Studios at the Yale Peabody Museum. Tasks vary from day to day and include, but are not limited to, cleaning and maintaining equipment, inventory of equipment and consumables, monitoring studios during open hours including evening/weekend hours, training studio users on proper use of equipment, and creating images for a variety of purposes. On the job training will be provided, but the successful candidate will need to meet the requirements listed below.

Hours: 6.0 to 12.0 hours per week
Hourly rate: $16.25/hour

Full information available here > 

Search for Job ID 31835 on the Student Employment website to apply >

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies: Undergraduate and Graduate Research Awards

BRUCE L. COHEN FUND RESEARCH AWARDS (UNDERGRADUATE)
The Bruce L. Cohen Fund, established through the generosity of Bruce L. Cohen ‘83, supports undergraduate scholarship and undergraduate scholarly programming. Grants are made in support of research and on-campus scholarly events. Successful applications to the Bruce L. Cohen Fund Research Award will include a specific description of the relationship between your project and LGBT and gender studies and citation of specific texts from the relevant fields of scholarship.

Funding for research may support such items as travel* to archives or other research sites; acquisition of inaccessible books, microfilms, or other materials (with the understanding that such materials will ultimately be offered to Sterling or another library within the university); or other legitimate research expenses. Individual awards range from $200 to $1,000. All Yale undergraduates are eligible to apply.

Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 by 11:59 PM EST. Full information here >

FLAGS - FUND FOR LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES (GRADUATE)
FLAGS (Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies) awards are available to Yale faculty, graduate students, and professional school students. Grants are made in support of research, publication, and course development. Funding may support such items as travel* to archives; transcription of interviews; acquisition of inaccessible books, microfilms, or other materials (with the understanding that such materials will ultimately be offered to Sterling or another library within the university); assistance in research and manuscript preparation; publication subvention; and approved experiments in basic science, medicine, nursing, psychology, and public health. FLAGS does not fund conference participation or presentation. Individual awards range from $500 to $5,000.

Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 by 11:59 PM EST. Full information here >

Elias E. Manuelidis Memorial Fund Research Grant

The Section of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine invites applications for the Elias E. Manuelidis Memorial Fund Research Grant. This is a program, open to all Yale students, to support research in the history of medicine with an emphasis on issues of discrimination and social justice. Please find attached details for the 2023-2024 opportunity.

Application submission deadline is October 14, 2023. Full information available here >

Fall 2023 Public Humanities Micro-Credential: The Art Museum Exhibition

This new public humanities micro-credential course, an opportunity available to eight graduate students, will meet in-person and over Zoom (to accommodate guest speakers) during the fall 2023 term. Classes will meet on the following Thursdays, 1–3 pm ET:

• September 28 in person

• October 5 Zoom

• October 26 Zoom

• November 2 in person

• November 16 in person

This course, facilitated by Rachel Chatalbash (Deputy Director for Research, Yale Center for British Art) and Stéphanie Machabée (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Center for British Art), explores the art museum exhibition. It asks: What is an art museum exhibition and what does it aim to achieve? What decisions inform the curation of an art museum exhibition?

More information is available on the very brief application, which is due by Tuesday, September 5th. Students will be notified by September 12th.

​Applications due Tuesday, September 5. Apply here >

CCAM Open Call

Calling artists, thinkers, and other creatives of all kinds!

Do you have an idea for something to share at CCAM? We are always open to interesting ideas from Yale, New Haven, and the world, especially when they intersect with our mission and projects, programs, and/or research. 

Please tell us about your idea, performance, experiment, talk, workshop (or something else entirely) below. We review responses regularly and respond when there is room to collaborate — to imagine, develop, and share something together. In some cases, we may suggest other opportunities we know of.

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Full information and apply >>

University of Denver seeks Assistant Professor in Art and Art History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

The School of Art and Art History and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Denver invite applications for a jointly appointed tenure-line Assistant Professor to start in Fall 2024 whose expertise lies at the intersection of critical theories of race and theories of contemporary art. The School of Art and Art History (SAAH) offers a BA in Art History, MA in Art History with a Museum Studies concentration option, a BA and BFA in Studio Art, and a BA, BFA, MA and MFA in Emergent Digital Practices. The Art History program has about 20 art history majors and 30 MA degree students in art history, most with an added concentration in Museum Studies. The Studio Program has 60 majors. The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program (CRES) was founded in 2018 with an undergraduate minor. CRES now offers an undergraduate major and minor, has nearly 60 minors, and is composed of a tenured faculty director, two visiting faculty members, and numerous affiliated faculty members.  CRES also has approval for additional faculty lines being added over the next few years.

Full information & application available here >

Anderson Ranch Arts Center seeks Winter Studio Assistants 

The Winter Studio Assistants at Anderson Ranch Arts Center work directly under the Studio Coordinator and Artistic Director of their area. There will be 1 Winter Studio Assistant, 5 total, hired in each of the following areas:
- Ceramics
- Photography & New Media
- Painting/Drawing + Children’s / Community Outreach
- Wood/Digital Fabrication
- Sculpture (3D Floater)

The duties of the Studio Assistant are, but not limited to, assisting program participants such as Artists in Residence and Visiting Artists in the studios, maintaining cleanliness and organization of all equipment and supplies, assisting with inventory, keeping track of supplies used by program participants for invoicing, helping with other organizational events including Children’s after school Art Break programs, help set up for Residency events, assist in gallery installations among other duties.

Dates: January 5th, 2024 – April 26, 2024
Pay Rate: $20/hour

Full information & application available here >

• The Hopper Prize: Offers a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis.