Sara Pennypacker Fellowship Grant

Sara Pennypacker Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Amount: Unspecified amount in in-kind support
Last Updated: March 31, 2026

Summary

The Sara Pennypacker Fellowship, offered by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, supports artists focused on creating quality work for children. This fellowship includes a fully-funded two-week residency at Mt. San Angelo, providing private accommodations and meals. Eligible applicants are composers, writers, and visual artists, with a preference for those exploring diverse perspectives. The fellowship aims to foster creativity and collaboration within a vibrant community of artists.

Overview

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) 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. Sara Pennypacker Fellowship

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Composers creating substantive work for childrenVCCA 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.