The Italian Art Society is pleased to announce that the 2026 cycle of Travel Grants is now open! All applications must be submitted by December 15, 2025.
Please visit the Travel Grants section of the Italian Art Society’s website for more information on required materials for applications. All applicants must be members of the Italian Art Society and must be logged into the site to view the submission form and submit their application.
Please email Silvia Bottinelli, Chair of the IAS Awards Committee, at awards@italianartsociety.org if you have any questions.
NEW→ IAS Renaissance and Baroque Topics Travel Grant
Thanks to the generous support of an anonymous donor, the Italian Art Society is NOW offering TWO Travel Grants of $1500 each to support transoceanic travel (including travel from the US to Puerto Rico) by IAS members of any nationality traveling to present papers in IAS-sponsored sessions at RSA or SCSC.
The deadline for applicants who travel to RSA is December 15, 2025, which is the general deadline for IAS Travel Grants.
Please note that SCSC has a timeline for paper acceptance beyond our general travel grant deadline. For this reason, applications for eligible scholars presenting at that conference will have a deadline of June 15, 2026.
Applicants must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and receipt of the award, must have received their Ph.D. by the time of application, must be presenting papers on a topic related to Italian Art in the Renaissance or Baroque periods, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.
Italian Art Society Emerging Scholars Travel Grant
The Italian Art Society is currently offering two grants of $500 each year that support travel for IAS emerging scholars to any conference at which the IAS is sponsoring a session. This competition is open to M.A. or Ph.D. students, or Ph.D. holders within ten years of the degree (pre-tenure, non-tenure-track, or independent scholars). Applicants must be presenting a paper on the art or architecture of Italy from the prehistoric period to the present, but not necessarily in an IAS-sponsored session.
Applications should be submitted here.
Recipients must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and upon receipt of the award, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Modern Topics
The Italian Art Society offers a grant of up to $1000 each year to support international conference, symposium, or other speaking engagement-related travel to the United States by scholars working on Italian art from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Scholars of any nationality are eligible to apply, but must have received their Ph.D. by the time of application, must be presenting papers on a topic that focuses on Italian art dating to the early nineteenth century or later, and must be traveling transoceanically.
Eligible conferences include, but are not limited to, those in which IAS regularly participates (whether or not the applicant is speaking in an IAS-sponsored session), including:
- College Art Association (CAA)
- American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
- Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Applications should be submitted here.
Recipients must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and upon receipt of the award, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.
Dorothy F. Glass Travel Award
The Dorothy F. Glass Award offers $1000 to support an emerging or unaffiliated scholar traveling abroad to study, or to present on, the arts of the Italian Middle Ages. Preference will be given to scholars of sculpture, the major subject of Glass’s work.
Applications should be submitted here.
Recipients must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and upon receipt of the award, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.