The Hodder Fellowship Grant

The Hodder Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Lewis Center for the Arts
Amount: US $93,000
Last Updated: August 18, 2025

Summary

The Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts supports artists and writers of exceptional promise through independent projects. Recipients can be composers, choreographers, performance artists, or visual artists, among others. The fellowship provides a $93,000 stipend for a 10-month appointment, allowing fellows to engage in significant new work without the obligation of formal teaching. This opportunity fosters creativity and exploration in the arts, encouraging innovative approaches to various disciplines.

Overview

Lewis Center for the Arts Mission Statement At the Lewis Center for the Arts, we believe that art arises out of questions. Art, on a campus like Princeton’s, is so much more than an “outlet” for expressing what one already knows and feels, or an “escape hatch” for blowing off steam built up by more rigorous kinds of work. Our classes and minor programs in Dance, Creative Writing, Theater & Music Theater, Visual Arts and in the interdisciplinary Princeton Atelier operate on the principle that rigorous artistic practice is a form of research, innovation, discovery and intervention. Like scholarship of any kind, rigorous artistic practice is a way of interrogating that which is accepted or understood in an attempt to break into the territory of the unknown or under-explored. Through their individual creative work, Lewis Center students investigate questions about themselves, others, and the events and systems that affect us all—systems like geography, politics, gender, race, the economy, the environment, and of course the wide realm of human choice and activity. This is fundamental to the formation of artists. It is also fundamental to the formation of alert, compassionate, creative, resourceful, and active rather than passive people. The Hodder Fellowship The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work. Hodder Fellows spend an academic year with Princeton, but no formal teaching is involved. A $93,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. Potential Hodder Fellows are: composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts;” The Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with a year of “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work.

Ineligibility

Previous recipients of the Princeton Arts Fellowship are not eligible to apply.This fellowship cannot be used to fund work leading to an MFA, Ph.D. or any other advanced degree.Hodder Fellows may not hold concurrent teaching positions at other institutions for the duration of the fellowship.