Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship Awards

The Vermont Studio Center, located in Johnson, Vermont, is an international residency program open to all artists and writers.

Activity: Year-round (2-12 week residencies) 50 artists and writers/month.

Benefits: individual studio, private room, and all meals.

VSC Full Fellowships and a variety of special fellowships will be awarded at the February 17th, 2009 deadline, including:

• VSC Fellowships (16): Open to all artists and writers

• In 2009 the Pollock-Krasner Foundation/VSC Fellowship Program for visual artists of outstanding talent will support three 4-week residencies for domestic artists and one 8-week residency for an international artist.

• Zoland Poetry Fellowships (2): Open to writers of original English-language poetry and poetry translators.

• Golden Award (1): Open to all painters, merit-based

• Brown Foundation (3) Fellowships will be awarded to artists and writers living in Texas.

• Dedalus Foundation (6) fellowships will be awarded to painters whose work is an extension of the modernist tradition as embodied in the work of Robert Motherwell.

• John Pavlis Fellowship Fund (3) fellowships for African-American artists. Renowned painter Katherine Porter will provide two visual artists and one writer a one-month residency in 2009.

• Wheels for Wheels Award (1): Open to an artist or writer who uses a wheelchair and/or has a spinal cord injury.

• Kay Evans Award (1): open to all poets, merit-based; award created in honor of Maine poet Kay Evans by her friends and family.

For application and guidelines: www.vermontstudiocenter.org