TN Association of Museums Scholarships

Congratulations to these 2025 scholarship recipients and their organizations:

Dolly Corbett, Cheatham Co. Historical & Genealogical Society, Ashland City
Jo Ann McClellan, African American Historical Society of Maury Co., Columbia
Lee Ann Williams, Granville Museum, Granville
Sheila Renee Moore-Williams, National Alliance of Pan African Seminarians, Whites Creek
Bradley & Miranda Robertson, Promise Land Heritage Assc., Charlotte
Becky Nabors, Morgan Co. History Museum, Wartburg
Audrey Armstead & Jacqueline Vaulx-Woody, Dunbar-Carver Museum, Brownsville
James Gwyn, Black History Museum of Warren Co., McMinnville
Alexa Moscardelli & Judith Sullivan, History Associates of Wilson Co., Lebanon

The 2025 application window is now closed.

Humanities Tennessee (HT) and the Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM) are pleased to announce our joint scholarship program for the 2025 TAM conference, “Hope,” March 12-14, 2025, in Knoxville, TN.

This initiative stems from our organizations’ commitment to support the work of our museums, to welcome a wide range of narratives/perspectives to our collective understanding of Tennessee’s past, and to deepen our present stewardship on behalf of our future counterparts.

Past conference sessions covered relevant topics such as collections care, exhibition design, and fundraising. The complete program will soon be available at the TAM website.

Scholarships are available for two people from each organization. Each HT scholarship provides:

a travel stipend up to $250 for recipients outside Knox Co.,
all meals provided by the conference,
conference registration fees,
and a one-year organizational membership in TAM.

Scholarship recipients will be responsible for their own travel, lodging, incidentals, and pre/post-conference events, if applicable.

The scholarships are available to volunteers without museum related backgrounds who work with a nonprofit museum or organization that is starting a museum. Organizations with paid, professionally trained staff are not eligible. Preference will be given, but not limited, to applicants whose organizations are new to TAM.

Interested organizations must submit a simple, online application form to receive a scholarship. The deadline for submitting the online application is January 15, 2025.

For questions about HT scholarships or to receive a link to the application form, please contact Melissa Davis at Humanities Tennessee: melissa@humtn.org.

For questions about the conference and/or the TAM Young Professional scholarship, please contact Debbie Shaw at TAM directly: tnmuseums@gmail.com.

Humanities Tennessee offers a scholarship program for the Tennessee Association of Museums’ (TAM) annual conference held every March. This initiative stems from our commitment to provide opportunities for professional and organizational development of Tennessee’s museums and their humanities programming. You can read more about the impact of TAM scholarships here.

Since 2003, 337 individuals from 123 organizations across the state have attended the TAM conference with this scholarship. Once introduced to the museum community by this program, many organizations remain TAM members and continue to attend each year without a scholarship.