2025 CCI Research Fellowship

The Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) Fellowship program fosters art projects and research that advance cultural development and scholarship in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Through research and production-based art fellowships, the program cultivates new ideas that challenge traditional conceptions of Caribbean art, generates innovative study of the region, and reflects upon the contemporary state of Caribbean art and thought. The CCI Fellowship program is intended to support artists, cultural practitioners, and scholars from the Caribbean and its diaspora whose projects would benefit from access to Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and its institutional resources.

In 2025, the CCI invites interested researchers, artists, and photographers to apply for the CCI Artist Fellowship, CCI Research Fellowship, and CCI + Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Fellowship. All three programs are self-directed and will take place between September and December 2025. The exact dates of each one will depend upon the specific requirements of the project and be mutually decided upon by the awardee, the CCI team, and the partner organizations.

2025 CCI Research Fellowship

The CCI Research Fellowship is intended for established and promising Caribbean researchers, scholars, or curators who are based in the Caribbean or its diaspora and whose research advances the study of contemporary art of the region. The CCI encourages proposals that expand the scholarship on artworks in the PAMM Caribbean Collection but also welcomes research projects that shed light on other aspects of Caribbean art and cultural production from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The CCI Research Fellowship will follow a hybrid format combining in-person and remote participation and must be completed within four months. As part of the program, the CCI will cover travel expenses and accommodations in Miami for a two-week residency period devoted to collection viewing, networking, and active engagement with the local art community. The CCI will also provide a research stipend and cover research-related expenses up to $2,000. The Research Fellow is expected to produce an essay that will be published on the CCI website.

Please find the full open call here.