The Association of Print Scholars (APS) is pleased to offer a travel grant in the amount of $500 to a scholar presenting a paper at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. The APS Travel Grant is intended to defray expenses related to conference participation. Expenses covered by the grant can include, but are not limited to, conference registration fees, travel, lodging, subsistence fees, and costs associated with accessibility needs.

In an effort to increase access and promote innovative approaches to printmaking, APS is especially committed to subsidizing a graduate student, adjunct lecturer, and emerging or independent scholars, who has limited institutional resources to cover costs related to presenting at RSA.

The APS Travel Grant in the amount of $500 will be awarded to one member, whose paper has been accepted for participation in the 2023 RSA Annual Meeting to be held in person in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from March 9 to 11, 2023. The deadline to submit application materials for support to attend the RSA Meeting is February 17, 2023, for notification on February 21.

Applications will be evaluated on the intellectual merit of the paper and applicant’s need.

Eligibility Requirements:
– Applicant must be an APS member in good standing. (To join APS, please visit the website: https://printscholars.org/membership/)
– Applicant’s paper must focus on an aspect of printmaking or printmaking history.
– Applicant must be presenting a paper (other roles, such as chair, discussant, or roundtable participant are not eligible to apply). Please note that papers accepted to the APS-affiliated panel are eligible for consideration.
– Applicant must live outside the conference city.
– Applicant’s paper cannot have been presented previously at another conference.

To apply, please submit the following materials as a single PDF via email to infoprintscholars.org by February 17:
– Paper title and abstract of the accepted paper (no more than 250 words). Please also include the title of the panel, names of the chair(s), and proof of acceptance to the conference.
– A brief description of how the paper relates to the applicant’s overall research goals or project (no more than 250 words)
– CV (no more than 2 pages)
– A brief statement demonstrating need, with a tentative travel budget where appropriate (no more than 150 words)