Education/Bursaries

The Department of Arts and Culture invites applications for bursaries from students who wish to pursue studies in heritage related programmes. The bursary will finance certificates, diplomas, and degree courses at accredited further and higher education institutions.

Registration is now open for the year long Advanced Programme in Photography (APP), offered at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg. The Advanced Programme is aimed at developing contemporary photographers. The course is designed to give you the structure necessary to explore, in your preferred genre, an independent and self-motivated body of photographic work as well as a comprehensive portfolio.

Call for application for the Balmoral fellowships and the project, foreign and exchange fellowships for 2014

The Gwangju Biennale will grant tuition and accommodations to all of the selected participants for the entire course. Participants will be responsible for their round-trip airfares to and from Gwangju and living expenses during their stay. Since the course is designed to provide young curators with opportunities to receive in-depth training, the age restriction for applicants has been set to 33 and under. The entire course will be conducted in English.

The South African Arts Writers and Critics Association is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2013 Critics Mentorship Programme. With the support of the Goethe-Institut this year the programme has been expanded and will offer two individuals an opportunity to be mentored by established critics/writers.

Since 1999, Camac Art Centre with Fondation Ténot has aimed to promote creativity and international exchange in the artist community. Camac and Fondation Ténot offer each year three residency bursaries to one visual artist, one writer and one musician or composer in order to create new career prospects for artists.

Applications open for the 2013 Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop

The Botín Foundation, Spain's leading private foundation in terms of the scale of its investment, launches a call for the Visual Arts Grants and the art workshop to be directed by Tacita Dean. The call is international in both cases.

Since 2001, the Bourse Hansjoerg Wyss is yearly granted to 5 to 6 students from Africa, Asia or Latin-America and allow them to undertake a Bachelor or a Master degree at the Ecole cantonale d'Art du Valais (ECAV) in the Valais county of Switzerland. 


Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Bag Factory Artists' Studios announce the Curatorial Intensive in Johannesburg. Deadline 6 February 2013 .

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 2013–2014.

The Department of Visual Art, University of Johannesburg, invites applications for admission in 2013, to the National Diploma Fine Art programme.

The DeVos Institute's Summer Fellowship for International Arts Managers at the John F. Kennedy Center offers international arts managers an immersive program of study in arts management strategy.

SMU offers up to six full fellowships each year supplemented by teaching assistantships. Funds are also available for supplies and travel. This generous bulwark of support is offered to aid students in the development of their art practice so that they can begin their careers unencumbered by debt.

Goethe Institut and Haus der Kunst have recently announced a new postdoctoral fellowship program, the Goethe-Institut Fellowship at Haus der Kunst. The program will award each fellowship for one academic year beginning this fall 2012.

Scholar-in-residence at the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence

Applicants for 2013 – 2015 must have received the PhD degree between October 1, 2007, and October 1, 2012. The fellowship is awarded without regard to age or nationality of applicants.

Akademie Schloss Solitude is granting approx. 70 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration. Persons up to 35 or if older who have completed a university or college degree within the past five years are welcome to apply. Each fellowship recipient is granted Euro 1,100 per month, in addition to free lodging. Germany.

The Programme offers residencies to young artists (between 25 and 35 years old) worldwide. UNESCO-Aschberg advocates and promotes creativity, highlights cultural exchanges and the need for artists to enrich their experience through contact with other cultures.

An exciting new Honours programme in Curatorship is being offered by Michaelis School of Fine Art’s Centre for Curating the Archive, in close collaboration with Iziko Museums. The programme will offer courses in the theory and practice of curatorship, developing in students a sophisticated awareness of the practicalities, politics and poetics of working with collections of many kinds.