The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is excited to announce a new grant aimed at promoting and supporting conservation projects and research initiatives focused on **South American viceregal art**. The Thoma Foundation Art of the Spanish Americas Conservation Grant will annually award and distribute up to $50,000 among selected proposals chosen by an international jury of experts in the field. This funding is intended for conservators, curators, or other stakeholders working in museums or academic institutions and will be awarded to projects with the potential to make significant contributions to the preservation and conservation of South American viceregal art. We strongly encourage international applicants, particularly those from Latin America, to apply. Applicants are required to propose projects that focus on preventive conservation, the restoration of artworks in need of care, the acquisition of laboratory equipment, or the organization of preservation/conservation workshops or symposia.

  
The Thoma Foundation Art of the Spanish Americas Conservation Grant offers support for projects at various stages of development, from early planning and individual studies to advanced implementation, all with the goal of preserving historical artworks and safeguarding viceregal South American heritage.

Up to $50,000 is available for selected projects. Grants range in duration from one to two years, with the expectation that, upon completion, the grantee will choose appropriate channels to disseminate their research outcomes throughout the conservation and art history fields.

Conservation Grant

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation offers predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships annually in support of projects and research initiatives that will advance the study of the art of the Spanish Americas. The Marilynn Thoma Fellowship is the only unrestricted research funding in the United States devoted exclusively to the field of art of the Spanish Americas. Scholars may come from any discipline, but all projects must relate to the study of art and art history. **Exceptionally accomplished scholars holding an MA may also apply. International scholars, particularly from Latin America, are strongly encouraged to apply.**

Applicants should propose projects that exhibit original scholarship and/or will significantly contribute to the understanding of the art of the Spanish Americas and its history. Fellowships range in duration from one to two years and eventuate in major measurable outcomes, including museum exhibitions, dissertations, book publications, scholarly essays, and lecture series. **Projects from all of Spanish colonial Latin America and the Caribbean will be considered; however, the Foundation will give strong preference to projects that make specific contributions to the history of painting and sculpture in viceregal South America.**

Congruent with the Marilynn Thoma Fellowship, the Foundation offers annual grants to scholars, curators, art historians, and advanced graduate students working on MA theses or PhD dissertations in support of projects and research initiatives that will advance the field of the art of the Spanish Americas. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses. Funding is provided each year to several scholars selected by an international jury of undisclosed experts in the field.

Predoctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship: $50,000 (one-year award) 

  
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: $65,000 (one- to two-year award; indicate project length in application)

  
Grants of up to $25,000 are available for projects lasting up to six months. 

Marilynn Thoma Fellowships & Research and Travel Award

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is pleased to offer travel awards of up to $5,000 to PhD students who want to travel to Latin America to visit archives, museums, and art collections and connect with local scholars. Exploratory Travel Awards will enable students to develop viable and innovative research projects for future application to pre-doctoral fellowships, including the Marilynn Thoma Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Art of the Spanish Americas. The Exploratory Travel Award is intended to fund travel of 1-2 months in Latin America as preparation for more extensive archival and collections-based research in the future.

Travel awards up to $5,000 are available!

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