Opportunities

Student Funding Opportunities

Each year, the Lewis Center for the Arts provides students the opportunity to spend the summer pursuing a project in the creative and performing arts. Current Freshmen, Sophomores or Juniors may submit applications for course, travel, and/or thesis research costs related to their studies. Award winners and amounts are determined by a committee of Lewis Center faculty members.

Summer Research Funding Awards are made possible by:

  • Alex Adam ‘07 Award (Three projects will be awarded at $7,500 each to Princeton University Freshman, Sophomores and Juniors)
  • The Sam Hutton Fund for the Arts (Awarded to Lewis Center for the Arts Freshman, Sophomore or Junior Students)
  • The Carpenter Family Fund for Comparative Literature and the Creative Arts (available to a student whose summer research work is at the intersection of comparative literature and the arts.)
  • Peter B. Lewis Summer Fund (Awarded to Lewis Center for the Arts Freshman, Sophomore or Junior Students)
  • Mallach Senior Thesis Fund (Awarded to a Lewis Center for the Arts Junior Student)
  • Mellor Fund for Undergraduate Research (Awarded to Lewis Center for the Arts Freshman, Sophomore or Junior Students)
  • The Mary Quaintance ‘84 Fund for the Creative Arts Award (Awarded to Lewis Center Creative Writing or Visual Arts Sophomores and Juniors)

The Summer 2018 Funding Program is supported in part by the Rita Allen Foundation. Learn more at ritaallen.org

 

For information about prizes awarded by the faculty in recognition of outstanding work — which are not open to application — see Student Prizes Awarded for Excellence.

Mandatory Travel Requirement

Students must check the University’s Travel website before applying to see what countries are on the U.S. State Department Travel Warning List. The University and the Lewis Center will not fund undergraduate travel to countries on the U.S. State Department Travel Warning List. If funds are granted for travel, students must register their trip in CONCUR* as a requirement to receive those summer research funds.

*Information on how to register the trip via CONCUR will be issued only to those students who are notified that they have been awarded funding.

Application Requirements

Written Proposal

Please describe why you are requesting funding from the Lewis Center. Your 1,000 word maximum proposal must include:

  • Description of the original work that will evolve from your use of the funding
  • Explanation of how your academic studies are related to this project
  • A financial budget and description of how you will use the funding
  • Indicate if you have requested or received funding for this proposal from any other department
Supporting Document Requirements
  • Creative Writing—Please submit a writing sample of no more than ten (10) pages of your best poetry, prose fiction (double-spaced), translation OR screenwriting.
  • Dance/Theater—Supporting materials to be furnished if needed, upon request from the committee.
  • Visual Arts—Please attach a PDF containing images of recent work with captions or provide links to 5 minutes of video or performance work uploaded to Vimeo or YouTube.

** Please Note: Any equipment purchased in relation to a project will remain property of the University.

Apply

Sorry, the application period is now closed.

 

Questions?

Please contact Crystal Napoli
Academic Administrator
N204 Arts Tower
Lewis Arts complex
122 Alexander Street
crystalh@princeton.edu