Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art

Posted by Blade of Grass on July 17, 2017

A Blade of Grass Invites Letters of Interest for Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art

A Blade of Grass provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. To that end, ABOG is inviting Letters of Interest for its Fellowship for Engaged Art.

The $20,000 ABOG fellowship supports socially engaged projects that promote art as a catalyst for social change; projects that feature artists in leadership roles; dialogue-based projects that emphasize active and sustainable partnerships with communities; and projects in which artists engage community members as equal partners on locally relevant issues, or globally relevant issues as they apply to the local context. Projects in which co-creation with non-artists is part of the process are highly encouraged.

Fellowship projects become the focus of a short, engaging documentary film directed and produced by RAVA Films; field research that utilizes action research methodology; Web content and public programs; a biennial publication; curriculum and advocacy that advance the field of socially engaged art; and two dedicated opportunities to engage a cohort of peer artists.

Eligible applicants include individual artists or artists collectives with projects that engage directly with a specific community or communities. To be eligible, artists may not currently be enrolled as students, must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States, and be at least 25 years of age. In addition, applicants must not have received a full ABOG Socially Engaged Art Fellowship as an individual or as part of an artist collective in the last three years and must have a website with contextualized examples of past work that a selection panel can review.

Letters of Interest must be received no later than September 18, 2017. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application.

For complete program guidelines, information about previous fellows, and application procedures, see the ABOG website.

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 (LETTERS OF INTEREST)

http://www.abladeofgrass.org/lay-of-the-land/apply-2018-open-call/