Fund for Art History
The Association for Art History recently held an event to celebrate its 50th anniversary during which we launched a new Fund for Art History that supports research and professional development in our field through our grants and bursaries programme.
We were delighted to be hosted by the Victoria Miro Gallery, and joined by inspiring speakers Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A East, Abigail Harrison Moore, Professor of Art History & Museum Studies, University of Leeds and grant-recipient, Mark Sheerin, who is a visual art researcher and writer, alongside a host of guests from the arts sector and beyond, who have participated in our Art History Now advocacy and careers campaign, or are long-term or brand new supporters.
Our field, along with other subjects in the arts and humanities, faces challenges posed by recent government policy that strongly guided secondary students to STEM subjects. Whilst this rhetoric around the study of art and the humanities has ceased, our universities, facing financial difficulties, have disproportionately reduced arts and humanities provision compared to other subjects. In addition, Open Access publishing has reduced the AAH’s income dramatically and with it our capacity to support the field. We hope, therefore, that this new Fund for Art History will be central to our efforts in fundraising for the subject and for future talent.
Learn more about the Fund for Art History.
Photographs: Frédérique Cifuentes-Morgan