VERMONT STUDIO CENTER'S February 15th, 2019 FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE
Fellowships open to Artists & Writers
VSC Fellowships
Twenty-seven (27) VSC Fellowships open to ALL artists and writers living and working anywhere in the world.
All applicants will be automatically considered for one of these twenty-seven unrestricted awards.
These fellowships are for residencies scheduled between May 2019 – December 2019.
The June Brundage Cater Fellowship
One (1) four-week fellowship for an artist or writer with demonstrable need, offered in memory of sculptor June Brundage Cater.
ELIGIBILITY: To be considered for this award, please include financial documentation (a copy of the first page of your most recent income tax return, a recent W-2, a statement of need, etc.).
VSC Creative Access Fellowships
One (1) fellowship for an artist or writer who is blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing, or who has a related disability that affects their hearing and/or vision.This award is sponsored by the Two West Foundation.
ELIGIBILITY: To be considered for this award, please confirm that you have a documented sensory disability affecting your vision and/or hearing.
The Swan Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for an interdisciplinary artist who paints and writes.
ELIGIBILITY: This fellowship is open to interdisciplinary artists with proficiency in both painting and creative writing. To be considered for this award as a writing applicant, please attach a CV that reflects a history of painting exhibitions along with your creative writing work sample; for visual arts applicants, please attach a CV that demonstrates creative writing publications along with your slides/images.
The Vermont Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for an artist or writer currently residing in Vermont.
Special fellowships for visual artists
School Arts Fellowship
Four (4) eight-week fellowships for socially-engaged teaching artists for residencies. Each fellow will work with local K-6, high school, or tech center students (approximately 10 hours/week) in coordination with VSC’s School Arts Program. Each fellowship includes a $1,000 stipend to assist with project planning and materials, and $1,000 stipend to support the artist’s own work.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must include a brief (250 words or less) project plan/concept and demonstrate experience in community arts and/or arts education. Residencies must be scheduled during the regular school year (September-April arrival).
Artist Opportunity Fund Fellowships
Three (3) four-week fellowships for visual artists with demonstrable financial need.
Eligibility: Must be willing to provide financial documentation demonstrating need.
VSC/Harpo Foundation Fellowships for Native American Artists
Two (2) fellowships open to Native American visual artists living in the U.S., based on the strength and quality of their work. This award includes a $500 travel stipend.
ELIGIBILITY: These awards are for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian visual artists. Please identify your tribal affiliation and include a brief artist statement (300 words or less) about your work and your plans for a VSC residency.
VSC/ Helen Frankenthaler Fellowships
Two (2) awards for 2D visual artists working in painting, drawing, or printmaking: two (2) 4-week fellowships, each of which include a $425 stipend.
Civil Society Institute Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for a U.S. artist of color with demonstrable financial need. Award includes a $500 travel stipend. Application fee waived for applicants to this award.
ELIGIBILITY: To be considered for this award, please complete the cultural background portion of VSC’s application and be willing to provide financial documentation demonstrating need.
VSC/Windgate Artist Fellowship
Four (4) fellowships for visual artists working in traditional craft media (clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood). Each fellowship, sponsored by the Windgate Charitable Foundation, includes a $1,050 stipend.
Oregon Artist Fellowships
Three (3) four-week fellowships open to mid-career artists, age 30 or older, currently residing in Oregon.
ELIGIBILITY: To be considered for these awards “mid-career” artists are defined as artists with a seven-year work and exhibition history, and who are 30 or older.
Marin Community Foundation Fellowships
Two (2) fellowships for visual artists. One for a domestic artist and one for an international artist (international fellow will receive a $1,550 stipend for travel and related expenses).
Barbara White Fellowships
Two (2) fellowships for visual artists. Each award includes a $300 stipend. Barbara White was a painter, VSC alumna, and VSC board chair (1996-1999). These awards are in honor of her generous support and leadership in the 1990s, which was critical to building Vermont Studio Center.
Zeta Orionis Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for a woman visual artist working in painting, who lives and works in the U.S. This award is based on merit.
Roger Smith Fellowship
One (1) Roger Smith Fellowship open to visual artists in the New York Metro area. This award includes a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center plus an exhibition in the Lobby at the Roger Smith Hotel in Fall 2019.
ELIGIBILITY: Along with the regular application, applicants must attach a single PDF document containing: 1) a 200 word artist’s statement, 2) a project proposal describing their interest in the combination residency/exhibition fellowship opportunity and the exhibition project they wish to display at the Roger Smith Hotel (not to exceed 500 words), and 3) a project description explaining the project’s design with respect to the Lobby at the Roger Smith Hotel’s exhibition space/floor plan (no more than 300 words; applicants may embed images if useful). We strongly advise visiting the Roger Smith Hotel’s website for further details and floor plan.
Special FELLOWSHIPS FOR WRITERS
James Merrill Poetry Fellowships
Three (3) Fellowships for American poets with demonstrable need. Each award includes a $500 stipend.
Eligibility: Must be willing to provide financial documentation demonstrating need.
The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for a writer who is a current member of ALSCW.
VSC / Callaloo Writing Fellowship
One (1) month-long residency fellowship for a writer in the African Diaspora who is a Callaloo conference or creative writing workshop participant. This award includes a $1,000 stipend. The $25 application fee is waived for eligible applicants.
ELIGIBILITY: Please indicate when you were a Callaloo conference or workshop participant.
Helen Zell Residency Fellowships
Two (2) fellowships for Helen Zell Writers’ Program candidates in poetry between their first and second year in the MFA program at the University of Michigan.
Voices Rising Fellowship
Two (2) fellowships for Black American woman fiction writers with demonstrable financial need. Given in honor of women writers of color such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston, whose voices have inspired so many, this award also comes with a $2,000 stipend to help offset costs associated with the residency, such as travel, childcare, lost wages, rent, etc. The $25 application fee is waived for eligible applicants.
ELIGIBILITY: To be considered for this award, applicants must complete the cultural background portion of VSC’s application and be willing to provide financial documentation demonstrating need.
In addition to the above awards, we will be awarding additional medium-specific fellowships to support:
4 writers
4 painters
3 poets
3 visual artists
These fellowships are offered in honor of VSC's 35th anniversary, supported by our 35 in 35 Campaign.
Learn more about the 35 in 35 Campaign.
Every VSC residency opportunity includes private room, private studio space, all meals, and full access to our schedule of evening programs and events.
