Call for Applications: 2015 Gerd Muehsam Award Sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)

Posted October 22, 2014

The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is accepting applications for the 2015 Gerd Muehsam Award. ARLIS/NA sponsors this award annually for a student paper or individual/group web project focused on a topic relevant to art librarianship or visual curatorship. Current students and recent graduates in are encouraged to apply.  Applicants must have created the project or written the paper during the preceding 18 months while enrolled in an accredited graduate library program or in a post-graduate library school program in art history or a related discipline, such as museum or archival studies, or studio art.

Award Details:

• $500 Award
• Up to $300 travel reimbursement to attend the ARLIS/NA 41st Annual Conference in Fort Worth, TX, March 19-23, 2015
• Complementary registration fee to the Fort Worth conference
• Opportunity to present the winning paper at the conference as part of the New Voices panel in Fort Worth (Panel participation requires confirmation from moderator before inclusion.)
• A free one-year membership to ARLIS/NA

The deadline for applications is December 5, 2014.

For detailed information about the Gerd Muehsam Award and application instructions please see the ARLIS/NA website:

http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards-honors/69-gerd-muehsam-award

Past recipients of the award are listed at http://arlisna.org/about/awards-honors/awards-history/442-gerd-muehsam-award-past-recipients.

Please direct questions about the award to Alan Michelson, Chair, Gerd Muehsam Award Sub-Committee, ARLIS/NA, at [email protected].