Vera List Center Fellowships 2025-2027 (up to $25,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 6, 2025

Applications are open for the Vera List Center Fellowships 2025-2027. Vera List Center Fellowships help the event and presentation of formidable artwork and analysis tasks by nationwide and worldwide early or mid-profession artists, writers, students, and activists, particularly those that are members of underrepresented communities within the artwork world and those that wrestle to discover help due to the experimental, political, and/or analysis-intensive nature of their observe.

The VLC Fellowship appointment is considered one of reciprocity and mutual advantages: VLC Fellows draw from the curatorial, educational, {and professional} assets of the Vera List Center and The New School, together with college and college students, as they contribute to the mental basis of the Center. As commissions, the ensuing VLC Fellowship tasks are offered to the general public by means of the Vera List Center’s interdisciplinary public packages and institutional networks.

Benefits

• The Vera List Center Fellowship is part-time and non-residential, lasting two years. Along with the $25,000 in monetary help, the VLC gives in depth curatorial {and professional} growth providers to help the fellowship mission from conception by means of manufacturing and presentation.
• In addition to these monetary {and professional} assets, fellows obtain a finances for journey, mission manufacturing, and presentation, allotted in session with and on the discretion of the VLC. Each fellowship is extremely individualized, relying on the analysis, mission feasibility, and meant outcomes.

Eligibility

• Journalists, students, activists, visible and performing artists, critics, public intellectuals, curators, and cultural practitioners working in any subject the place they have interaction artwork and politics are inspired to apply. 
• They strongly encourage functions from numerous candidates worldwide, particularly those that haven’t but acquired vital institutional help and for whom the OPPORTUNITY to analysis, experiment, and make new work in a college setting can be impactful. 
• Fellowship candidates should reveal expertise in conceiving, researching, and executing work and tasks. Applicants is probably not enrolled in a level-granting program. Projects primarily targeted on promotion, funding ongoing enterprise operations, or curating and documenting present work are usually not eligible.

Assessment Criteria

In addition to the creative and/or scholarly excellence of the proposed fellowship mission, functions will likely be assessed for:

• The crucial and inventive methods the proposal expands on and interrogates the VLC Focus Theme because it explores numerous approaches to intelligence.
• The significance of the VLC Fellowship and proposed mission to the candidate’s lengthy-time period observe.
• The candidate’s potential to translate analysis pursuits to sensible and viable work or mission inside the fellowship timeframe.
• How nicely do VLC and New School assets align with the mission’s wants and feasibility?
• Whether the proposed mission advances numerous insights into the sphere of politically engaged artwork, the Vera List Center and The New School.

Application

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For extra info, go to Vera List Center Fellowships.