Definition of Guggenheim Fellowship Competition
You must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation to be considered in one of
its annual competitions for Fellowships. The Foundation receives from
3500 to 4000 applications each year and is able to make about 220
grants. No one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition.
There is no pre-screening. Applicants will be matched against others
working in their own field and then against all others in the
competition in a rigorous selection process. The work of artists will
be reviewed by artists, scientists by scientists, historians by
historians. The Foundation has a network of several hundred advisers who either meet at the
Foundation offices to look at applicants' work or receive application
materials to read locally. These advisers then submit reports on their
ranking of the applicants in their respective fields. After this
review, a final Committee of Selection
weighs the applications field by field and determines how many awards
to make in each area.
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