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Fellowships

The Fellow of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, via their participation on advisory committees, will award Fellowship to promising black artists and scholars for the purpose of research or continued study in their discipline. The need for financial assistance of this kind is considerable. The Black Academy has already received requests for aid for various projects which are of major importance to black people, i. e. for historical research and documentation of black music, dance, theatre and art, biographical studies, current film biography, innovations in educational techniques, and many other historical and sociological research projects, Although Black Academy members are familiar with aspiring and talented newcomers to their disciplined, their knowledge would be supplemented by press notices to the appropriate media and related institutions.
The Fellowships would be given for independent study, as well as study connected with an institution. Foe example, the Graduate Division of the City University of New York has just established a graduate program in fine arts which will concentrate on American and Modern Art.
It would be of inestimable value if the Black Academy of Arts and Letters could provide a fellowship to a black art historian who would focus his research on the black artist in American art history.