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CALL FOR ENTRIES
VCCA Fully Funded Residencies for Community Based Artists

Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, VCCA is offering
fully funded residencies to two artists working in community-based, socially
engaged, or relational artwork. The VCCA residencies will be at VCCA’s Mt.
San Angelo facility at the foot of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Spanning
three to four weeks, depending on the needs of the artists, the residencies
will allow the artists to spend time developing ideas, building networks, or
interacting with a community. Each artist will receive a $500 honorarium to
cover travel expenses, supplies or equipment. In addition, one of the two
will be selected to create a piece for the community of Amherst County,
Virginia, the rural location of VCCA, and for that, the artist will receive
an additional two weeks at VCCA and $2,500.

While at VCCA, all two artists will be furnished with a private bedroom,
separate individual studio and three prepared meals a day so that they can
concentrate exclusively on their creative work. Up to 24 other writers,
artists and composers from all over the world will be in residence at the
same time.

Now in its fifth decade, VCCA is one of the nation’s largest and best-known
artists communities hosting more than 400 national and international
writers, visual artists and composers annually. VCCA Fellows have received
international attention through publications, exhibitions, compositions and
performances, and have received numerous awards including the Pulitzer
Prize, the National Book Award and the MacArthur “Genius Grant.”
The residencies will be offered in a peer-review process. The residencies
must be taken between September 1 and December 19 2015.
On your application, please note that you are applying for the NEA Community
Based grant.
DEADLINE MAY 15, 2015
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
154 San Angelo Drive
Amherst, VA 24521
P.434.946.7236
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