The Blakemore Foundation was founded in 1990 by Tom and Frances Blakemore for the purpose of providing fellowships for the advanced study of Asian languages and grants to facilitate the introduction of Asian art to communities in the United States. Together with The Freeman Foundation, it has awarded over $20 million in fellowships to support an academic year of intensive study of an Asian language at an advanced level through the Blakemore Freeman Fellowship. The Foundation also offers Blakemore Kingfisher Fellowships for nine to twelve months of full-time, intensive language study of Chinese or Korean in East Asia. These latter grants are open to citizens or permanent residents of the United States and Canada who have demonstrated intent to pursue an academic career in Chinese or Korean art history prior to the 20th century.
Eligibility: To be eligible for a Blakemore Freeman Fellowship, an applicant must:
- Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (green card holder) of the United States.
- Be pursuing a professional, business, or academic career that involves the regular use of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, or Khmer.
- By the start of the grant, have at least a bachelor's degree.
- Be at or near an advanced level in the language. By the start of the grant, applicants must have completed (at minimum) the third year of language classes at the college level, through formal classroom study at a college or university and/or in rigorous college-level language programs.
- Be able to devote oneself exclusively to full-time intensive language study during the term of the grant. Grants are not made for part-time study or research.
Application: Apply online.
Deadline: Applications for grants for study starting in the 2025/2026 academic year open on July 1, 2024 with an application deadline of December 30, 2024. Grants will be awarded in February and March 2025.
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