ASC: Emerging Creators Fellowship

Overview

What We Do

ASC believes investing directly in creative individuals makes the charlotte-mecklenburg cultural community more sustainable. The emerging creator fellowship provides resources to emerging mecklenburg county artists to make their creative practice a sustainable vocation.

We serve as the designated “Office of Cultural Resources” for the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and six suburban towns by providing advocacy, cultural education programs, cultural planning, fundraising, grant making, public art and workshops and trainings for the cultural community. We work to ensure Culture For All by combining resources from local and state government with those of the private sector to maximize community impact throughout the cultural sector.

We work every day to ensure access to an excellent, relevant, and sustainable cultural community for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Region.

Emerging Creators Fellowship

The Emerging Creator Fellowship provides an investment in early career, vocational creatives looking to establish their creative practice in Mecklenburg County. The fellowship supports creatives that are at a pivotal moment in launching sustainable careers in the creative sector. Fellowship activities must occur between April 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, as determined by the applicant. Examples of fellowship activities include but are not limited to the following:

* Apprenticeships
* Exploration of innovative ideas
* Execution of new or recently begun projects
* Research and/or instruction
* Conferences or retreats

Fellowship activities should outline a timely investment which will advance the applicant’s career. Fellows will be responsible for making all arrangements and/or purchases for fellowship activities. Fellowship funds may not be used for tuition toward degree-seeking coursework.

Compelling applications connect the proposed use of funds to the applicant’s artistic voice and practice. Applicants should consider how the proposed fellowship activities would enhance their creative practice.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

ASC welcomes applications from vocational creatives\ across all disciplines who are creating new, original work.
* ASC Defines vocational creatives as artists whose primary occupation is their creative practice.
* Applicants should have 2-10 years’ experience pursuing their creative practice as their primary occupation outside of a degree-seeking program.
* An applicants’ age or training is not a consideration of the panel.
* Eligible applicants are
* Residents of Mecklenburg County, and have been residents for at least three consecutive years at the time of the application.
* Creatives with 3-10 years of experience pursuing their creative practice as their primary occupation.
* Creating original work, rather than interpreting or curating the work of other artists.

Ineligibility

* Applicants will be disqualified if:
* They are not residents of Mecklenburg County.
* They are a previous recipient of the Emerging Creator Fellowship or the Creative Renewal Fellowship.
* They also apply to the Creative Renewal Fellowship.
* They are full-time employees of a cultural organization.
* They are enrolled in a degree seeking program at the time of or during the fellowship.
* It is not a priority of this program to fund creatives working in an academic or educational setting.
* Creatives working in an academic setting are considered eligible if the proposed use of funds is related to their creative practice rather than their academic research or work in the classroom.