VERMONT STUDIO CENTER'S October 1st, 2018 FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE
Fellowships open to Artists & Writers
VSC Fellowships
Twenty-five (25) 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-five unrestricted awards. These fellowships are for residencies scheduled between December 2018 – May 2019.
Every VSC residency opportunity includes private room, private studio space, all meals, and full access to our schedule of evening programs and events.
Special fellowships for visual artists
VSC/NEA Creative Equity Fellowships
Three (3) fellowships for visual artists of outstanding merit from underserved populations, including artists of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
VSC/Helen Frankenthaler Fellowships
Three (3) fellowships for 2D visual artists working in painting, drawing, or printmaking. Two (2) 4-week fellowships each includes a $425 stipend and one (1) 2-week fellowship which includes a $250 stipend.
Eligibility: To be considered for this award, you must be a 2D visual artist.
VSC/Ohio Arts Council Fellowships
One (1) fellowship for a visual artist who is a recent recipient of an OAC Individual Excellence Award. Award includes an $800 stipend.
Eligibility: To be considered for this award, you must have received an OAC Individual Excellence Award within the past five years.
VSC/Windgate Artist Fellowships
Four (4) fellowships for visual artists working in traditional craft media (clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood). Each fellowship includes a $1,050 stipend.
Eligibility: To be considered for this award, you must work in clay, fiber, glass, metal, or wood.
Artist Opportunity Fellowships
Three (3) four-week fellowships for visual artists with demonstrable financial need.
Eligibility: To be considered for this award, you must be willing to provide financial documentation demonstrating need.
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, you must complete the cultural background portion of VSC's application and indicate that you are willing to provide financial documentation demonstrating need.
Clowes Fund Fellowships
Four (4) fellowships, one each for visual artists living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana and Washington. Each award includes a $400 travel stipend.
Eligibility: To be considered for this award, you must be a visual artist living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, or Washington.
Jerry Shore Fellowship for Women Sculptors
One (1) fellowship for a woman sculptor age 50+.
Dohrn Zachai Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for a woman visual artist age 65+.
Special FELLOWSHIPS FOR WRITERS
James Merrill Poetry Fellowships
Three (3) Fellowships for American poets with demonstrable need. Each award includes a $500 stipend.
Eligibility: To be considered for this award, you must be willing to provide financial documentation demonstrating need.
Lukas Riveros Amani Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for a poet in the CantoMundo community. The $25 application fee is waived for eligible CantoMundo applicants; this award includes a $1,000 stipend.
ELIGIBILITY: To be considered for this award, you must indicate when you were a CantoMundo Fellow.
Susanna Colloredo Environmental Writing Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for a writer whose creative work directly engages environmental issues, awareness, and the complex challenges facing the planet.
ELIGIBILITY: To be considered for this award, you must include a brief statement (250 words or less) that describes how your creative writing engages environmental issues.
VSC/Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for an emerging woman writer who will be a first-time resident at VSC. This award includes a stipend of $1,500 to help cover expenses associated with taking the residency, including but not limited to travel, rent, child-care, or to replace lost income.
ELIGIBILITY: For the purposes of this fellowship, emerging writers are defined as those who are as yet unpublished or who are just completing their first book. (Women writers who have published a standard trade edition of their work do not qualify for this fellowship. Writers may be considered if they have a first book under contract.) Eligible candidates must reside in the United States.
VSC/Ohio Arts Council Fellowships
One (1) fellowship for a writer who is a recent recipient of an OAC Individual Excellence Award. Award includes an $800 stipend.
Eligibility: To be considered for this award, you must have received an OAC Individual Excellence Award within the past five years.
