Now open! Call For Applications: Rodger and Joann McLennan Canadian War Art Research Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada

Press Release

May 13, 2025

The call for applications for the National Gallery of Canada’s (NGC) Rodger and Joann McLennan Canadian War Art Research Fellowship, which encourages and supports advanced research in Canadian and Indigenous Canadian war and military art, is now open. Amounting to CAD $5,000, including expenses and/or allowances, the Fellowship is valid for one year from September 1, 2025. Aspiring Fellows have until June 13, 2025, 11:59 PM EDT to send their application.

This Fellowship supports original research by scholars undertaking publishing, exhibition, and thesis and dissertation work or their equivalent. Research must relate to any aspect of Canadian war or military art, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking and other media, and emphasize the use and investigation of the collections of the NGC, the Canadian War Museum, and Library and Archives Canada.

Current Fellow Xenia Benivolski is a writer, curator and educator whose work explores how landscape, acoustics, and musical thought can contribute to the formation of social and political structures. Her Fellowship project explores the sonic legacies of wartime landscapes that connect Canada to Europe. Her focus on church bells is informed by the records of Canadian campanologist Percival Price, who wrote extensively on the wartime fate of bells and carillons.

Eligible applicants
The Fellowship is open to art historians, curators, critics, conservators, graduate students and independent researchers, and other professionals working in the visual arts or in museology and related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. International applicants are also encouraged to apply. The fellowship is tenable only at the NGC.

Qualified candidates, including Indigenous peoples, women, people of any sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, racialized people and people living with disabilities, are encouraged to apply.

How to apply
For additional details about the application submission process and assessment criteria, visit gallery.ca.

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