The Getty Scholars Grants program invites applications from scholars in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for the Getty Scholars Grants 2025 which is targeted at established scholars or individuals who have attained distinction in their chosen fields.
The Getty Foundation assists in the advancement of research and conservation by supporting scholars and professions through grants, projects, and publications.
Getty Scholars Program 2025 | DETAILS
Getty Scholar Grants are for established scholars, or individuals who have attained distinction in their fields.
The Getty Scholars Program supports innovative research about art, conceived in the broadest terms, and its histories, by providing a locus for international scholars to forge collaborations across disciplines and professional practices, while also developing new audiences for their work.
During their stay, the scholar cohort is immersed in a vibrant local community devoted to the advancement of knowledge and hosted at an institution committed to preserving, understanding, interpreting, and sharing its vast library and collections.
Recipients may be in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they pursue their projects free from work-related obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly lecture devoted to an annual research theme, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.
Benefits of the Getty Scholars Program
- Six-month residency: September to April, January to June: $43,000
- Three-month residency: September to December, January to April: $21,500
- Nine-month residency: September to June: $65,000
- Workstation at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa.
- Travel stipend
- Housing apartment.
- Available healthcare option
Eligibility Criteria for the Getty Scholars Program
To be eligible for the Getty Scholar Grants 2025/26, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Applicants from associated fields who do not hold a PhD but have commensurate professional experience will also be considered.
- Scholar Grant applicants should have received a PhD more than 5 years ago (before September 1, 2021).
- Applicants who received their degree within the past 5 years (after September 1, 2021) should apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Applicants for 2025–2026
- Applications for the 2025–2026 year grants will open July 1, 2024. The deadline to apply is October 1, 2024, by 5:00 p.m. (PDT).
- Getty invites scholars and arts professionals to apply for a residential fellowship on the topic of repair, a theme that bridges periods, world geographies, and professional practices.
- Scholars are asked to think critically about repair, questioning interpretive assessments about the ideal state of any object or site, in addition to querying what constitutes damage or whether to repair the ruined or the broken.
Guiding Questions for the Getty Scholars Program
- How might the notion of repair lend itself to transdisciplinary and/or collaborative methods that expand understudied or precarious practices in art history or open new forms of understanding between various arenas of knowledge and practice?
- Although often considered an ameliorative process, what are the limitations of repair? Which questions or considerations emerge when efforts to repair fail or fall short?
- How can the concept of repair be conceptualized in order to make way for new forms and the possibility of radical alteration?
- Efforts to repair or rehabilitate art and cultural heritage have catalyzed debate and contention among scholars, conservators, archaeologists, and the public. What can we learn from these discussions?
- Acts of repair—material, infrastructural, environmental, and social—require intensive efforts on the part of workers in many fields. How do we account for human labor and agency in the act of repair?
- How can the concept of repair help us think in new ways about the networked relations between living things and their environments?
Application Process for Getty Scholars Grants 2025
Applicants need to complete and submit the online Getty Scholar Grant application form by the deadline, which requires the following attachments:
- Project Proposal: Each application must include a description of the applicant’s proposed plan for study and research (not to exceed five pages, typed and double-spaced). The proposal should indicate:
- how the project addresses the annual theme
- if relevant, how it would benefit from the resources at the Getty, including its library and collections
- AAAHI applicants should describe how their projects will generate new knowledge in the expanding field of African American art history
- Curriculum Vitae
- Optional Writing Sample
Applicants will be notified of their application outcome approximately six months after the deadline.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- How does Getty decide which applications to support?
Each application is evaluated according to the stated application criteria for that funding category. This work is done by reviewers who work at Getty or outside of Getty in the visual arts and cultural heritage conservation fields.
- When will I receive a notification about the status of my application?
Applicants will be notified of their application outcome by March or April.
- Who will review my application?
Applications undergo a rigorous screening process with at least one selection committee. Committees include past Getty scholars, current Getty staff members, and other experts with backgrounds in art history, archaeology, and adjacent fields of study from outside the Getty.
- My application was not selected. Can I receive feedback?
Due to the large volume of applications, Getty is unable to provide comments on individual applications.
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