Library Research Grants, Conserving Feminist Art, Alice Rahon Papers

Apply for a Library Research Grant

The Getty Library offers short-term grants for researchers—including undergraduates— providing partial support for travel to Los Angeles to use our collections. In addition to the open call for applications, the following focused grants are available:
 

Whitney and Lee Kaplan African American Visual Culture Library Research Grant supports research that uses an encyclopedic and interdisciplinary collection of published works related to African American art.

Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky Gastronomy Collection of Rare and Contemporary Books Library Research Grant supports projects that use the collection to research culinary history and the visual culture, preparation, and presentation of food.
 

Conservation Collection Library Research Grant supports research that utilizes the collection developed by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and which consists of specialized research materials related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

Deadline for applications is October 1, 2024 at 5pm PT.

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Apply for Scholars Program 2025-26: The Art of Repair

The Scholars Program invites interested scholars and professionals to learn more about our 2025–26 annual theme. We’re pleased to announce applications for this unique funding opportunity are now open.

Situated between creation and destruction, the act of repair can be deeply transformative, with the potential to heal, alter, and renew the material environment. Beyond such physical interventions, art and sites of commemoration are often mobilized to heal a fractured social fabric. The issue of repair has deep bearing for the arts, conceived in the broadest sense, and especially for institutions that aim to preserve and share global cultural heritage.

Deadline for GRI applications for the 2025–26 year is October 1, 2024.

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Finding Aid

Alice Rahon papers, 1859–2004, undated

Alice Rahon (1904–1987) was a French poet and painter who settled in Mexico where she was part of the Surrealist Dyn circle. Rahon developed close personal and working relationships with writers and artists such as Wolfgang Paalen, Valentine Penrose, Eva Sulzer, and Jean Varda. Rahon’s papers exemplify the intersection of literature and art that characterizes Latin American surrealism, offering an in-depth exploration of the thematic connections between her poetry and paintings.
 

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Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

September 10, 2024–February 23, 2025
Getty Center, Research Institute

Joining this year’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide which opens in September at locations across Southern California, this exhibition tells the unique story of a mid-twentieth century collaboration between artists and engineers. In 1966, American avant-garde artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman teamed up with Bell Labs engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer to form a non-profit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.’s performances and installations integrated art, theater, multi-sensory environments, and groundbreaking technology. The group’s pioneering efforts to facilitate communication and collaboration pushed its programs beyond the art world, confronting such topics as housing, education, and environmental sustainability.
 

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Breast Dressed

Melissa Huddleston is the only person at Getty to ever receive this job assignment: clean and repair a dress adorned with breasts made of rubber latex. The Breast Dress, as it’s become known by Getty staff, is part costume, part symbol of defiance, and part fascinating example of 1970s feminist art. Artist Anne Gauldin created it with some help from members of the Waitresses, a performance art group she cofounded with Jerri Allyn in 1977.

“This dress tells a story. With the dress now conserved and stabilized, I hope it can be a story about these incredible women, and not a story of how rubber degrades,” Huddleston said.

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The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher

By David Pullins

This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture. The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters’ workshops.

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ReCurrent Podcast

ReCurrent, Getty’s new podcast about cultural heritage hosted by Jaime Roque uncovers why cultural heritage—from music to murals, and petroglyphs to barber shops—is worth preserving, and what’s at stake when we don’t. Through personal stories, interviews with experts, and visits to sites where preservation efforts are in full swing, listeners will embark on a journey to understand, value, and connect with cultural heritage and Getty’s work in the field.

Listen to new ReCurrent episodes, out now wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe, and enjoy transcripts and bonus material on our website.
 

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USC Roski presents Resonance: Paintings and Prints by Gayle Garner Roski and Ruth Weisberg

August 2–30, 2024

USC Roski Graduate Gallery
1262 Palmetto Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
 

USC Roski School of Art and Design is excited to present Resonance: Paintings and Prints by Gayle Garner Roski and Ruth Weisberg, in honor of both artists’ legacy and integral roles at the University of Southern California and the Roski School of Art and Design. The exhibition celebrates both women’s friendship and shared efforts in supporting the arts in Southern California.

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