CBMR Accepting Applications for 'Travel-to-the-Collections Grants' Until March 1, 2013

Center for Black Music Research
Columbia College Chicago

The application deadline for the current cycle of CBMR Travel-to-the-Collections grants has been extended from February 1 to March 1, 2013. Applications are encouraged from anyone who is working on a black music research, writing, or performance project.

CBMR travel grants of up to $1,000 are awarded on a competitive basis to applicants who demonstrate the ability to launch and complete a scholarly or performance-based research project that utilize the CBMR’s collections. The grants are supported with funds that have been given to the Center in honor of CBMR founder and Director Emeritus Samuel A. Floyd Jr. and in memory of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Scholars, composers, conductors, musicians, educators, graduate students, and independent researchers residing or attending school beyond commuting distance of the Center for Black Music Research (more than 100 miles) are eligible to apply for this grant. Researchers in all genres of black music are encouraged to apply as interests ranging from concert music to gospel to jazz criticism have been explored through this grant.

Applications are accepted twice yearly and must be postmarked or received by September 1 and February 1 (extended to March 1, 2013). Additional information and application forms are available at the CBMR’s website, or by calling 312.369.7559 to request information.