Scholarships & Fellowships
This is a repository for scholarships and fellowships designed to support people seeking or in historic trades careers.This page aggregates scholarship and fellowship information from across the internet–serving different demographics and sponsored by different organizations.
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Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center: Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths Scholarship
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Description
This scholarship is made possible by the Society for Inclusive Blacksmiths to increase accountability within the craft and to support diversity in the field of blacksmithing. The SIBs scholarship covers 100% of the tuition portion of your class fee at the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, and you will contribute the materials fee.
Eligibility
This scholarship is available to individuals from a historically marginalized group, which includes anyone who identifies as BIPOC, LGBTQA+, female, or disabled. Students must be 18 or older and enrolling in a blacksmithing class.
Eligible Uses
Tuition
Christopher P. Robinson International Preservation Trades Exchange Scholarship
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Description
International exchange fund designed to increase the awareness of international traditional trade skills, preservation knowledge, conservation techniques, and understanding of traditional building materials and their relations to the built environment.
Eligibility
- Working tradespeople
- PTN member
Amount
$2,500
Eligible Uses
Tuition, Travel Funds
Duration
Annual
Colonial Williamsburg’s Annual Working Wood in the 18th Century Conference Scholarship
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Application
Conference Scholarship Application
Description
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships for students to attend the Annual Working Wood in the 18th Century Conference. This year’s program, To Furnish a Town: High, Low and In Between, will be held in person & virtually January 23-26, 2025.
Eligibility
- Currently enrolled in a woodworking curriculum of an accredited school, or having graduated with a woodworking degree within the past 5 years.
- Emerging museum professionals in the woodworking, crafts & trades field.
Amount
- In-Person scholarships cover registration costs to attend the main Working Wood program, receptions and dinner, access to the streaming platform to view presentations until March 31, 2025, and a historic area ticket voucher for a 7-day visit to Colonial Williamsburg to be redeemed by December 31, 2025. In-person scholarships may include accommodations but do not include travel.
* Note: In-Person scholarship recipients will have the option to register for Pre-Conference activities, and an option to register a guest for Companion Programs. Any of these additional items are an additional fee, not covered by the scholarship.
- Virtual scholarships cover registration costs to all Working Wood virtual presentations, available until March 31, 2025, as well as a historic area ticket voucher for a 7-day visit to Colonial Williamsburg to be redeemed by December 31, 2025.
Eligible Uses
In person and virtual registration
Application Due Date
November 1, 2024
Application Award Date
November 15, 2024
Duration
Annual
Event Page
Colonial Williamsburg’s Annual Working Wood Conference
Construction Trades Scholarship
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Description
Support for people enrolled in construction trades training programs
Eligibility
Applicant must be currently enrolled in a construction-related training program which is approved by the Bureau of Apprenticeship Training, community college, technical school or equivalent.
Applicant must be obtaining training in a construction-related craft or trade.
Amount
$500 – $2,500
Eligible Uses
Tuition, Related Instruction
Application Due Date
February 28
Application Award Date
June 15
Duration
Annual
Desert Metal Craft Scholarship
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Description
This scholarship is made possible by the Society for Inclusive Blacksmiths to increase accountability within the craft and to support diversity in the field of blacksmithing. Recipients of this scholarship will use the funds for blacksmithing classes at Desert Metal Craft.
Eligibility
The SIBs scholarship is available to individuals from a historically marginalized group, which includes anyone who identifies as BIPOC, LGBTQA+, female, or disabled. The SIBs scholarship is only available for blacksmithing classes and for students 18 or older.
Eligible Uses
Tuition
Hardy and Fuller Scholarship
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Description
Hardy and Fuller have partnered with The Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths to offer monthly blacksmithing scholarships to adults, which cover either one Blacksmith 101 class or one month’s membership for Open Studio!
Eligibility
Anyone interested in learning blacksmithing.
Eligible Uses
Tuition, Membership
Duration
Lottery pick a person every month and your application will be included for every pick.
Harrison Goodall Preservation Fellowship
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Description
Promote enterprising professionals’ ability to undertake a focused pursuit that makes a meaningful and innovative contribution to the field of historic preservation and support the stewardship of historic resources. for people enrolled in construction trades training programs
Eligibility
- Must work in a preservation related field (trades, historic preservation, museum studies, history, archaeology, urban planning, architecture, etc.)
- Emerging and seasoned preservation and trades professionals encourage to apply.
- Federal and non-federal workers
Amount
$10,000
Eligible Uses
Project related activities
Application Due Date
March 17
Application Award Date
August 15
Duration
Annual
J. Joseph Edgette Education Fund
Biography
In 2021 AGS established the J. Joseph Edgette Education Fund to honor the legacy of one of AGS’s tireless, longstanding supporters. Dr. J. Joseph Edgette was co-winner of the 2015 Forbes Award (with Richard Sauers). The “Joe Fund” recognizes Edgette’s decades-long career training educators and his many years of dedication to cemetery scholarship. Its purpose of supporting scholars and educators in their research projects is aligned with AGS’ founding purpose in 1977 — to further the study and preservation of gravestones.
Fund objective:
To support projects that further the study and preservation of gravestones by providing financial assistance to scholars and educators. Further details are here.
1) Eligibility guidelines:
- •Scholars who need financial support to complete their gravestone- or cemetery-related projects are eligible to receive money from the fund.
- Awards are not intended to be scholarships that would simply replace a portion of a student’s financial aid, but instead are tied directly to his or her qualifying project expenses.
- Excluded are any projects already funded by AGS through scholarship awards (such as the student scholarships granted to attend the annual conference).
2) Examples of awards that support scholarly and educational projects:
- Hiring a student intern to research cemetery records at a “second-tier” cemetery (that is, one without an endowment to support such activities).
- Assisting with travel and other expenses for a research project related to a specific cemetery, tombstone design, or carver.
- Paying for a GPR survey at a cemetery known to hold the remains of enslaved or other marginalized people buried there without markers.
- Paying for ancillaries such as bagged lunches, copy expenses or other costs related to a local volunteer cemetery- or gravestone-themed project.
- Funding workshops to train public school teachers in how to use cemeteries as instructional tools.
- Providing financial assistance to other projects that meet the spirit of the fund.
3) Management and oversight of the fund:
- AGS’ Executive Committee, or a committee of AGS determined by the Executive Committee, makes all decisions regarding award amounts and distribution of cash from the fund.
- The AGS Treasurer maintains records regarding donations into, balance of, and cash distributed from the fund, and reports fund activity to AGS membership at least once per year.
- Scholars and educators apply for the funds by submitting a proposal for how an award would be used. Parameters for the application to the fund are determined by AGS.
- Recipients of cash from the fund agree to make their research public — by presenting at a conference, publishing in Markers or the AGS Quarterly, or in other ways approved by AGS.
- Eligibility guidelines, use of awards, and management and oversight of the fund may be changed at any time with the approval of the AGS Executive Committee.
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Misia Leonard Scholarship
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Description
Conference fund to support the attendance of current students, apprentices, and new hires to the International Preservation Trades Workshop.
Eligibility
- Current Students
- Apprentices
- Beginning professional tradespeople
Amount
$1,000
Eligible Uses
Costs associated with attendance to IPTW
Application Due Date
Prior to annual IPTW
Application Award Date
Prior to annual IPTW
Duration
Annual
Slater Scholarship
Biography
The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) promotes the academic study of gravemarkers, cemeteries and related topics internationally through its annual conference and peer-reviewed journal Markers. For many years, scholarships have been awarded to students whose educational pursuits are aligned with AGS’ founding purpose in 1977 — to further the study and preservation of gravestones. In 2022, AGS’ student scholarship award was renamed The Slater Student Scholarship Award in honor of Dr. James A. Slater, an early pioneer of the organization and one of the most influential voices in the field of gravestone studies.
1) Eligibility guidelines:
• Awards are open to graduate or undergraduate students at any accredited college or university.
• Students submit an application form (available on the AGS website) with supporting documentation to the AGS Scholarship Committee.
• Research topics may include the study of gravestones (such as marker materials, forms, and motifs, as well as carver studies) and cemeteries (such as surveys, burial practices, and landscape histories).
• Excluded are any research projects already funded by AGS through other awards.
2) Awards:
The Slater Student Scholarship aspires to fund a free or subsidised student place at each AGS conference. It is, however, entirely dependent on donations, and thus the amount which can be awarded varies from year to year.
3) Management and oversight of the program:
• AGS’s Student Scholarship Committee determines award recipients each year after completing its review of scholarship applications.
• AGS reserves the right to award one or more scholarships each year, or to make no award, as circumstances permit.
• Allowable out-of-pocket travel expenses are determined by the AGS Executive Committee and may include air, train or bus fare, and other expenses directly related to the recipient’s transportation to and from the conference.
• The AGS Treasurer maintains records regarding donations into, balance of, and cash distributed from the fund, and reports fund activity to AGS membership at least once per year.
• Eligibility guidelines, use of awards, and management and oversight of the fund may be changed at any time with the approval of the AGS Executive Committee.
Stockton Scholarship
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1) Eligibility guidelines:
• Awards are open to graduate or undergraduate students at any accredited college or university.
• Students submit an application form (available on the AGS website) with supporting documentation to the AGS Scholarship Committee.
• Research topics may include the study of gravestones (such as marker materials, forms, and motifs, as well as carver studies) and cemeteries (such as surveys, burial practices, and landscape histories).
• Excluded are any research projects already funded by AGS through other awards.
2) Awards:
• The Stockton Student Scholarship provides the award recipient with complimentary conference registration, on-campus lodging, and on-campus meals during the AGS annual conference. The recipient receives a complimentary student membership in AGS for one year beginning June of the year of the award.
• Scholarship recipients agree to present their research at the annual conference if asked to do so; their work may also be published in Markers, the AGS Quarterly, or in other ways approved by AGS.
3) Management and oversight of the program:
• AGS’s Student Scholarship Committee determines award recipients each year after completing its review of scholarship applications.
• AGS reserves the right to award one or more scholarships each year, or to make no award, as circumstances permit.
• Allowable out-of-pocket travel expenses are determined by the AGS Executive Committee and may include air, train or bus fare, and other expenses directly related to the recipient’s transportation to and from the conference.
• The AGS Treasurer maintains records regarding donations into, balance of, and cash distributed from the fund, and reports fund activity to AGS membership at least once per year.
• Eligibility guidelines, use of awards, and management and oversight of the fund may be changed at any time with the approval of the AGS Executive Committee.
Veteran’s & Family Members: Agnes & James Kinard Family Scholarship
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Description
Provides 100% tuition support for any adult-level workshop at Touchstone Center for Crafts Workshops/Classes. Additional funds may be awarded to offset the cost of housing, meals, and/or materials fees on a case-by-case basis.
Eligibility
Applicants must be veterans and immediate family members and/or caretakers of veterans.
Eligible Uses
Workshops and classes at the Touchstone Center for Crafts.
Application Due Date
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.