Fellowships
Promoting new knowledge about photography, photographic history, and photographic theory.
The 2027-28 Fellowship application portal is now open. Applications for the 2027-2028 cycle are due January 19, 2027 by 11:59pm MST.
The CCP Fellowship program particularly encourages applicants who can bring new and critical approaches to the Center’s collections. We are happy to review applications for a wide range of interdisciplinary projects and welcome proposals for academic, artistic, or public interest projects. The Center’s fellowship assessment rubric can be used to better understand the criteria that will inform our selection process in the course of preparing an application.
You can learn more about fellowship research at CCP by visiting our list of Current and Past CCP Fellows.
Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship
New for 2027-28! Awards up to $5,000 to support research that results in new knowledge about photographers collaborating with individuals from other disciplines, art forms, scientific methods, or cultural practices. Researchers may choose to pursue historical research on interdisciplinary/collaborative photographic practices or opt to develop a new creative project based on the Center for Creative Photography’s collections in which photography is integrated into broader creative, academic, or practical contexts.
Ilse Sternberg Research Fellowship
New for 2027-28! Awards up to $4,000 to support research at the Center for Creative Photography into the history of photographic education and the development of new pedagogical tools and methods for advancing photographic education today. The award honors Ilse’s parents, Jay and Grace Sternberg, trailblazing photography educators in Tucson in the early twentieth century.
Ansel Adams Research Fellowship
Awards up to $5,000 to promote new knowledge about photography and the history of photography.
Photographic Arts Council - Los Angeles (PAC-LA) Research Fellowship
Awards up to $2,500 to support research at the Center for Creative Photography in the history of photography.
Harold Jones and Frances Murray Research Fellowship
Awards up to $2,500 to encourage research by curators, historians, social scientists, writers, artists, and critics, on photographers whose archives are at the Center.
Kenneth J. Botto Research Fellowship
Awards up to $2,500 to support research at the Center for Creative Photography by curators, writers, and researchers investigating the life and work of Kenneth J. Botto; researchers investigating photographers working to incorporate set-up, collage, or constructed imagery; or researchers investigating photographers whose work is a critical comment on political, social, and/or art historical issues in society.
Gary Metz Research Fellowship
Awards up to $2,500 to an individual engaged in researching and writing about photographic theory relating to the imagery and its impact on individuals and societies; and/or our relationship to images and the reasons that drive their creation.
Michael Hawley Artist Research Fellowship
Funds will support a fellowship award, up to $2,500 annually, to help one working artist conduct research at the Center for Creative Photography.
Mickey Pallas Research Fellowship
Awards up to $5,000 to support research related to the Mickey Pallas Archive.
Todd Walker Research Fellowship
Awards up to $3,500 to support research into the art and career of Todd Walker.
Adolf Fassbender Travel Fellowship Award
The Fassbender Fellowship will not be offered in the 2027-2028 cycle.
Awards up to $2,500 for travel to support research at the Center for Creative Photography in the history of photography.