Fellowships/Grants
An ARC Fellowship supports faculty and students to work on a creative project, often over the space of a semester, year, or on a project basis. For participating in the program, each ARC Fellow will receive an unrestricted research grant. Amounts vary yearly by funding. In 2024/25 ARC will be piloting two programs offering research grants for faculty and students:
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Loft Creative Research Support for Faculty: three $2,000 awards for arts faculty for creative manuscript workshops or to support creative research - including creative writing, art practice, music, theater, dance, or performance studies
- LIFT Support for Students: Up to eight $500 awards to fund specific student projects, including arts research related travel, performance costs, materials, exhibition needs, and more
The fellowship program has evolved over the past 15 years to include:
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From 2009 – 2011, ARC fellows were all faculty members
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From 2012 – 2019, ARC fellows were self-nominated pairs of graduate students and faculty members pursuing semester-long collaborative projects of their own design
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From spring 2020-fall 2023, the ARC Fellows Program served as a platform for our Poetry and the Senses Initiative. Fellows formed horizontal working groups that brought together faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and community poets
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In fall 2023, ARC added Indigenous Poetics Lab fellows
ARC looks forward to sharing a renewed vision for the Fellows program in the 24/25 academic year. Please check back for updates.
2023 ARC Fellows & Facilators
The goals of this program are:
- to encourage collaboration across disciplines, departments, and colleges
- to cultivate a community of artists and arts scholars with interdisciplinary interests
- to develop a climate of shared mentorship for both faculty and graduate student research
- and to pilot projects related to research interests being explored at the Arts Research Center
- to provide the gift of time and space critical to conducting arts research
Participants benefit from interaction with a cohort of colleagues with interdisciplinary research interests.Both student and faculty ARC Fellows participate in twice-monthly working group seminars. At each session, fellows will interact with the cohort in the manner that best serves their project:
- Sharing preliminary research results or goals
- Leading group readings of pre-circulated writing
- Presenting one another’s work
- Conducting a work-in-progress critique
- “Workshopping” material
- Rehearsing a formal research presentation
For participating in the program for the entire semester, each ARC Fellow will receive an unrestricted research grant. Amounts vary yearly by funding.
In the past, faculty-student collaborations involved pairs from the same department or from very different departments and took a number of forms, including:
- A graduate student and a faculty member working together as partners on a project
- A graduate student providing assistance on a faculty member’s project
- A faculty member providing assistance on a graduate student’s project
Eligibility:
The ARC Fellows program is open to all advanced graduate students (usually those who have advanced to candidacy in a PhD program and/or are in a later stage of research in a Masters program) and ladder-rank faculty at UC Berkeley who are conducting arts-related research. On occasion, there are specific fellowships open to undergraduate students, including Indigenous Poetics Lab Fellowships. For joint porjects, students and faculty from different departments and programs are encouraged to apply together, though graduate students and their primary advisors may apply together as well.
Schedule:
To be announced.