The purpose of the Arts
Research Institute is to enhance
the national and
international prominence of
the arts at UCSC through publication, performance,
exhibition,
or curation, and to increase the quality and vitality of
research and
creative work in theory, scholarship, and practice
in the arts. The Institute seeks to
foster a vigorous and
visible environment of intellectual activity and achievement.
The Executive Committee of the ARI oversees the distribution
of funds to support
research and creative activity by ladder
faculty in the Arts Division.
Houghton Colloquia. NEW! The
ARI is initiating discussions intended to generate new and innovative collaborative
research in the Arts. In order to begin these conversations, we are launching
the Houghton Colloquia, named in honor of Dean Edward Houghton who founded
the Arts Research Institute in 2005. These will be conversations devoted to
single themes or topics in which various arts researchers engage, and will
include short presentations of research by UCSC faculty participants. The Houghton
Colloquia are designed to generate new research clusters that cross disciplinary,
even divisional boundaries. There will be one colloquium per quarter starting
in the winter — please contact Christina Waters with your ideas for themes
or topics by November 1. The ARI will organize the colloquia and announce the
themes for winter and spring once we hear from faculty.
Ladder faculty may apply for grants
in the following categories:
* Faculty Mini-Grants - Maximum
award $2000
Application deadline April 16,
2010 for
projects beginning the following July 1
Guidelines
* Individual Major Project Grants - $2000
- $10,000
Application deadline February 12,
2010 for projects beginning the following July 1
* Collaborative Major Project Grants - $2000
- $20,000
Application deadline February 12, 2010 for
projects beginning the following July 1
Guidelines
* Off-Cycle Completion Funds -
up to $5000
Grants in this category are designed
to bring projects to completion and are intended for
publication subventions, CD packaging and other expenses
incurred at the very end of a research project. These
funds represent a two-year special augmentation of ARI
monies by Vice Chancellor of Research Bruce Margon. Requests
are limited to $5000 per application. Applications will
be received on an ongoing basis until funds run out.
Application
form
* Off-Cycle Travel/Contingency Requests
- up to $3000
When available, off-cycle travel funds are
intended to supplement Academic Senate COR travel funds
to
venues at which faculty have been invited to present research
or other creative activity.
Off-cycle contingency funds, when available,
are intended to support unforeseen research opportunities
which arise outside the regular ARI funding cycles.
Off-cycle proposals should include an explanation of the
unforeseen contingency or travel circumstance, and a budget.
In general, contingency funds will NOT be granted for projects
previously funded.
If applying for funds to supplement an existing ARI-funded
project, the narrative must explain why additional
support
is required, and why such a need could not have been foreseen
at the time of the original application to ARI.
Please
supply ARI with documentation concerning your contingency
fund request.
To be eligible for ARI off-cycle travel funds, you must
have already applied to the Academic Senate COR for travel
funds (please include a copy of your Academic Senate COR
Travel Grant request). You may apply for funds to supplement
COR travel funding to a single venue, or for travel to a
second venue.
In any case you must apply for “off-cycle” funds prior
to making expenditures or undertaking the travel for
which you will be reimbursed. These funds may not be applied
retroactively.
No more than $2000 in contingency funds will be awarded
to a person in one year.
No one person can receive more than $1K in travel and $2K in contingency funding
in any academic year.
Application for off-cycle funding is on-going. Decisions
will be made by the Executive Committee on a case-by-case,
first come, first served basis until the off-cycle monies
are expended.
Send your Off-cycle request applications
to ARI Administrator Christina Waters via email: xtina@ucsc.edu.
For
application form
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