Announcing the VRA 2024 Travel Awards! ✈
We are delighted to announce that VRA Travel Awards are available for attendance at the 2024 VRA conference in Minneapolis, October 8-10, 2024! The application submission deadline is July 8 at 11:59 pm EDT. The list of recipients will be announced on the VRA listserv the week of July 31. Contact our committee at travelawards@vraweb.org with any questions.
A preliminary conference schedule can be found here: https://vra2024.sched.com/. To assist with budgeting, the conference registration fees and hotel rate are available on the conference webpage.
Before you apply, PLEASE READ "Travel Award Rules and Guidelines” for VRA Travel Awards Applicants, and "Types of Travel Awards," both linked here as PDFs.
You do not need to be a member of the VRA to apply for a Travel Award.
Please also note that award checks are scheduled to be mailed to recipients after the Awards ceremony at the conference and as such, recipients will not have access to those funds ahead of the conference to set against travel expenses.
Travel Awards are intended to provide partial support for an individual's conference attendance, and typically supplement support from one's employer and/or personal resources.
For 2024, we are fortunate to have generous financial support from sponsors and funds provided by the membership including:
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Award. Up to $1,000
Earmarked for applicants from underrepresented and underserved communities, which may include but is not limited to: neurodiversity, persons with (in)visible disabilities, gender identity, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, socioeconomic status, religion, sex, age.
Two New Horizons awards. $850 to $700 each
Earmarked for applicants in one or more of the following categories: first-time conferee, solo, part-time, or geographically isolated practitioner.
Tansey awards. $1000-$400 each
These awards are intended for applicants with insufficient (or no) institutional support from their employer or academic program.
Tansey Top-Up awards. $300-$250 each
These awards are intended for applicants who have demonstrated need for only partial support on top of other funding (typically from employers or graduate programs).
New Horizons Student award. $300
Earmarked for a currently enrolled student.
Garneta E. Taormina Memorial Student Travel award. $300
For full-time graduate students enrolled in an accredited degree program and considering a career in visual resources and/or digital humanities.
More awards may become available and will be announced on this listserv. Also, stay tuned and watch VRA-L and the VRA website for further details about the conference. Please email (travelawards@vraweb.org) if you have any questions not answered by the documents noted above.