Brother Thomas Fellowship Program Grant

The Brother Thomas Fellowship Program, established by the Boston Foundation in 2007, honors the legacy of Brother Thomas Bezanson, a renowned ceramic artist. This biennial fellowship supports a diverse group of Greater Boston artists across various disciplines, providing each fellow with a $20,000 unrestricted award and opportunities to attend convenings. The program aims to enhance the artists' market access and raise awareness of their contributions to Boston's cultural vitality.

The Brother Thomas Fund was established at the Boston Foundation in 2007 to honor the legacy of Brother Thomas Bezanson, a Benedictine monk and world-renowned ceramic artist, who wanted the sale of his work to help other artists, as his friends had helped him.
Toward the end of his life, Brother Thomas joined forces with Sue and Bernie Pucker, owners of the Pucker Gallery on Boston’s Newbury Street, to continue his legacy.
The goal of the biennial Brother Thomas Fellowship program is to support and celebrate a diverse group of Greater Boston artists working at a high level of excellence in a range of disciplines—the visual, performing, literary, media and craft arts—and to enhance their ability to thrive and create new work. The Boston Foundation also hopes that fellowship winners will have greater access to a variety of markets, including galleries, residencies and commissions, and that the importance of artists to the vitality of Boston will be more broadly recognized.
To continue to support Greater Boston artists working at a high level of excellence, we are excited to announce that each Brother Thomas Fellow will now receive an unrestricted award of $20,000 as well as the opportunity to attend up to two Brother Thomas Fellow convenings between grant cycles.

Ineligibility

Previous recipients of the Brother Thomas Fellowship cannot apply as this is a one-time opportunity.