Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation Fellowship in Photography Grant

The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation Fellowship in Photography, offered by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, supports U.S. photographers with a fully-funded two-week residency. This opportunity includes a private studio, meals, and access to shared facilities, fostering creativity among diverse artists. Since its inception in 2009, the fellowship has aimed to enhance appreciation for photography and its practitioners, encouraging applicants from various artistic disciplines.

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.
Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation Fellowship in Photography
Founded in 2009, the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation helps fund important endeavors promoting photographic education and documentary photography across the United States. Its goal is to raise awareness of and appreciation for the field of photography, and for the photographers themselves.

Eligibility

Photographers who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.VCCA 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.