Eligibility
The Fellowship is open to all emerging visual artists creating two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based media work. Applicants are judged on the quality of their work and not on previous exhibition experience, resumes, recommendations or the like. The jury disqualifies applicants it deems to be already emerged—e.g., those who have had high-profile solo exhibitions, or have been in significant group exhibitions such as biennials.
Collaborative teams may apply under one application. If selected they will only be awarded one Fellowship. Please note that visual arts Fellows are provided with furnished living accommodations with one full-sized bed.
Artists must be in residence during their Fellowships. Please consider any commitments of time you have made before applying. Absences may not exceed more than fourteen consecutive days or total more than thirty days during the seven-month Fellowship.
The Fine Arts Work Center actively seeks applicants from all backgrounds, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, disability, HIV status or veteran status.
Fellowship
The Fine Arts Work Center provides seven-month Fellowships to ten artists and ten writers each year from Oct.1 through April 31. Visual arts Fellows are provided with a private, furnished apartment with a kitchen and full sized bed, a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft and a monthly stipend of $750.
More information regarding the Fellowship program and our facilities can be found at:
http://fawc.org/fellowships
APPLICATION GUIDELINES:
Work Samples:
First Year applicants should upload the following: 10 JPG images, (5MB maximum for each image) OR 5 one-minute videos of kinetic work/installation (maximum of 61 MB for each file; accepted formats are: mov, wmv, flv and mp4) OR 5 minutes total of video of time based work such as film, video and animation (maximum of 61 MB for each file; accepted formats are mov, wmv, flv and mp4)
Please note that if you are selected for the second round, you will be notified and given the opportunity to upload ten additional images.
Second Year Fellows should upload the following: 20 JPG images, (5MB maximum for each image) OR 5 one-minute videos of kinetic work/installation (maximum of 61 MB for each file; accepted formats are: mov, wmv, flv and mp4) OR 5 minutes total of video of time based work such as film, video and animation
(maximum of 61 MB for each file; accepted formats are mov, wmv, flv and mp4)
Second year Fellows are asked to notify the Visual Arts Coordinator of their submission.
Experience:
You will be asked to paste a resume or brief list of artistic/professional experience of no more than three pages total.
Fee:
The first year fee for visual arts online submission process is $57 payable by credit card. This includes FAWC’s $45 application fee plus SlideRoom’s $12 usage fee.
Second year fellows are only required to pay the $12 usage fee, paid directly to FAWC.
Selection:
For information about our selection, including the composition of juries and details of our initial and final jury process, please visit:
http://fawc.org/fellowships/sel_vis_fel.php
Notification:
The finalists for the final jury will be invited via email to supplement their portfolio on SlideRoom by uploading up to ten additional images sometime in late March. They are asked to notify the Visual Coordinator if they wish to submit additional images. Final images must be uploaded before April 15th.
All applicants will receive notification in early May.
Please direct all questions to
Janelle Iglesias, Visual Arts Coordinator
(508) 487-9960 x 105
jiglesias@fawc.org
