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Application forms for the 2009 U.S. and Canadian Fellowship competition and for the 2009 Latin American and Caribbean Fellowship competition will be available as of June 15 2008. BY MAIL--A request for an application form may be made by postal mail (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016) or by email (fellowships@jsgmf.org). In either case, the request must include the applicant's postal mailing address. Applications are sent only by postal mail. BY DOWNLOADING--An eligible applicant may download and fill out an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) application form (to be printed out for submission by postal mail); eligibility to download is determined through a questionnaire on this website Top of page Applications and accompanying documents from citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada should be postmarked not later than September 15; from citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean, not later than December 1. Do not fax or email application forms to the Foundation. Top of page Additional information that accompanies the Application Forms An application consists of the completed application form of two pages, together with three separate supplementary statements (typed in a clearly legible typeface with the statement of plans no more than three pages in length):
Include
a chronological list
of shows, citing dates and places, and a
list of collections in which your work is represented. Forthcoming
shows should also be mentioned.
Include
a chronological list of your compositions, citing titles and
dates; a list of your published compositions, citing the names of
publishers and the dates of publication; and a list of recordings.
First public performances should also be listed, giving names of
performers and dates.
Include
a chronological list of your works, citing
titles and dates of completion, and dates and places of major public
showings of each.
Submit your supplementary statements in the form of a set consisting of the three statements required, in the order listed above. Staple the set in the upper left hand corner. Fill out three labels with your own name and preferred address and enclose them with your application. Top of page Applicants in science need not submit examples of their work. Applicants in scholarship should submit examples of previous work, following the procedures described below. Applicants in the arts (i.e., fine arts, music composition, photography, film, video, and choreography) must submit examples of previous work in order for their applications to receive full consideration by our advisors. Recent work is generally the most pertinent. Except as indicated for books, include only one copy of each example submitted. Applicants who are not directly covered in the following categories should follow the procedure outlined for the category closest to their own. Printed material will not be returned (e.g., books and journal and magazine articles). Other examples of your work will be returned, subject to the following provisions: everything is submitted at your own risk and expense. The Foundation will not pay return mailing charges and will only return work if adequate payment is included by the applicant. Although we take every reasonable care of all work received, the Foundation receives publications, CDs, photographs, and any other items on the understanding that it is not responsible for their accidental loss or damage from fire or any other cause while in its charge or in the course of transmission. We advise you not to send unique works, and to retain copies of all items submitted. For more complete information go to returns.html. Top of page Fine Arts Painters, sculptors, and graphic artists should submit, with the application, not more than eighteen 35mm slides or digital images (last five years). You may include different views of individual pieces if you wish. Instructions about digital images can be found at digital.html. Applicants submitting 35mm slides should organize them in chronological order, with the most recent work placed first. Each slide should be labeled with your name, the title and date of the work, and an indication of the top of the slide. Include a list of the slides submitted, giving the title, dimensions, medium, and date of completion of each work. Installation artists may submit videotapes or DVDs (follow instructions below). If you think that further explanation of the work is required, attach a description to your list. Include on the list the address to which the material should be returned. Web, Interactive, Digital Multimedia, and Hypertext Art If you are a Web based artist, you need only send us your web site address(es). Please do not send us web sites that merely catalogue work produced in traditional (non-digital, non-interactive, non-mobile) media (photographs, paintings, sculptures, etc.). Please send a carefully labelled web site list (e.g, "I am a current applicant in the US or Latin American Fellowship competition, and I am submitting a list of web sites to complement my application form") to the Foundation at 90 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016, or to fellowships@jsgmf.org. If your work is digital or interactive in nature (rather than just digital rendering of work produced in other media) or if your work is hypertextual or involves digital multimedia, you may send us your work on CD-R or DVD. Please note that our juries prefer to view slides of work produced in traditional media (or original prints in the case of photographs). If you make traditional (non-interactive, non-mobile) images with digital tools and display the work so produced only with digital media (on screen or on the web), please let us know, and you may send us your work on CD-R or DVD. If, however, you make prints of this work, please send us prints or, preferably, slides of the prints (if they are not primarily photographic in nature). Top of page Writers and scholars Poets, playwrights, screenwriters, scholars and writers of fiction or creative and general non-fiction should submit, with the application, examples of published writing. Manuscripts will not be accepted except from playwrights. Send no more than three different books (it would be helpful to have two copies of your most recent book). Include a list of the books submitted, giving the title, publisher, and date of each. Theatre or performance artists may submit videotapes or DVDs (follow instructions below). Top of page Applicants in music composition, photography, film, video, and choreography should not submit examples of their work with the application but should submit them separately, to arrive between November 1 and December 15 in the competition for the United States and Canada, and between February 1 and March 15 in the competition for Latin America and the Caribbean. Please note that no further instructions concerning the submission of examples of work will be sent.
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