Jacques and Natasha Gelman Fellowship Grant

The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Fellowship, hosted by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, offers fully-funded two-week or one-month residencies for African American and Latin American visual artists. This opportunity provides artists with personal studios, private accommodations, and meals in a collaborative environment. The fellowship aims to support diverse perspectives in the arts, encouraging applications from both emerging and established artists across various disciplines, including painting, sculpture, and photography.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential.

Eligibility

African American and Latinx visual artistsVCCA encourages applications to Mt. San Angelo from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives. Emerging and established artists may apply in the following disciplines: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting and screenwriting, performance, film and video, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, music composition, and cross-disciplinary art. Applicants who are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral programs are eligible to apply.Please apply in only one discipline that most closely relates to the project you are proposing to work on at VCCA supplemented by the work samples you will submit. Artists may be in residence at Mt. San Angelo only once every two years; returning Fellows must wait to reapply accordingly.

Ineligibility

Projects that involve pure academic scholarship are not accepted.Residencies may not be deferred beyond the scheduling period for which you were accepted.