FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN

	, 2010

SELECTION OF VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

Eligibility
The Fellowship is open to all emerging visual artists creating two-dimensional work, three-dimensional work, 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.

Digital applications are accepted at http://fawc.slideroom.com. FAWC encourages all applicants to apply online, however, if you must send slides, please download the application found on the application and guidelines page, fill it out, and include it with your packet of materials. After the 2010 jury cycle, FAWC will accept only online submissions.

Composition of Juries
The Visual Arts Committee Chair, with the assistance of the Visual Coordinator, enlists and instructs the Visual Committee members in the first jury round. Visual Committee members are practicing accomplished artists, including but not limited to former Fellows of the Fine Arts Work Center. The Visual Chair, the Visual Coordinator, and the second-year Visual Fellows serve in the first jury round.

For the second and final round of the jury, the Visual Chair with the help of the Visual Coordinator charges a three-person outside jury, which changes each year, to review original work submitted by thirty finalists as well as current or former Fellows trying for a second-year term. Only the Visual Chair, the Visual Coordinator, and the three jurors will be present when reviewing original work for the final jury. The three jurors are responsible for the final selection of the Visual Fellows. The Visual Chair and the Visual Coordinator do not enter into or interfere with the final selection of the Fellows.

First Round
In the first round, the Visual Arts Program Committee members will jury all digital and slide applications in two phases:

1. In late February, the Visual Committee members will view all online submissions over a one-week time span on their individual computers. At the end of the week, the data from the Committee members will be collected and collated by the Visual Chair and the Visual Coordinator, and the applicant pool will be cut by sixty percent.

2. The Visual Committee will meet as a group (alternating annually between New York City and Provincetown) in early March to review the remaining online submissions and any slide submissions. The Committee will spend one full day or one and a half days to review the work and make the final cut to thirty finalists.

Second Round
The thirty finalists and any current Fellows or former Fellows trying for a second-year residency at the Work Center will ship or deliver original work to Provincetown in late April for the second round of the jury. The Visual Coordinator will work individually with each finalist to determine how much work they should send, how much space will be needed for the work, and how it should be installed for the final jury. Finalists who cannot send original work will be encouraged to send further documentation in the form of drawings, photographs, video, maquettes or any other format that meets the space requirements. The jurors are made aware of the problems of shipping some work due to medium and/or geography.

Members of the Visual Committee will invite three professional artists to travel to Provincetown in late April to review the original work of the finalists, current Fellows, and former Fellows. The three jurors will select eight first-year Fellows with five alternates, and two second-year Fellows with four alternates.

Second-year Fellows
Two second-year Visual Fellowships are awarded each year. Second-year Fellows are not privileged over first-year Fellows, except that the second-year Fellows are invited to sit on the first-round jury the year they are in residence.

All former visual Fellows who have not already won a second-year Fellowship are eligible to apply. Current Fellows and former Fellows trying for a second-year residency do not need to enter the first-round jury. They are asked to notify the Visual Coordinator of their interest and then submit original work at the appropriate time for the second round of the jury.