notice
Bill McLennan Northwest Coast Travel Award – Summer 2025: Call for Applications
Film still from “As long as the days shall dawn on the world”, by Pierre Luc Junet. Recipient of the 2022 Bill McLennan Northwest Coast Travel Award.
The Bill McLennan Northwest Coast Travel Award is an award funded by the Doggone Foundation. It is available to full-time graduate students in the Faculty of Fine Arts whose research or artistic practice intersects with Northwest Coast Indigenous art or cultures.
This $10,000 award supports an internship or research opportunity at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), advancing academic or artistic goals.
Award Details:
- Amount: $10,000
- Internship Duration: 4 to 8 weeks (June–August 2025)
- Non-renewable
- Covers travel, accommodation, and subsistence costs.
Eligibility criteria include:
- Full-time graduate students in the Faculty of Fine Arts, including those in the MA/PhD Individualized Program (INDI) or Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD Program (HUMA), with a primary supervisor in the Faculty of Fine Arts.
- A letter of nomination from a Faculty of Fine Arts faculty member is required.
Application Deadline:
- 5 p.m. EST - February 10, 2025
Recipients will be chosen based on academic and/or artistic merit and the relevance of the letter of intent to the applicant’s program of study.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee including one of Concordia’s Indigenous faculty members, curators of Pacific Northwest Indigenous art, and the Director of MOA at UBC. Recipients will be notified by March 10, 2025.
For full details and to apply, visit the award page.