Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art

Posted by A Blade of Grass on July 11, 2016

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.

Fellows become active participants in a program that features a range of services, including a two-day orientation that explores ABOG’s documentation and assessment models and includes workshops on strategies for community engagement; quarterly co-assessment meetings with other fellows to share progress and offer feedback to one another; support and feedback for ongoing self-assessment in the form of collaborative action research; and assessment by an outside evaluator.

Eligible applicants include individual artists or artist collectives with projects that engage directly with a specific community or communities. 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. Applicants may 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. In addition, applicants 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 19, 2016. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a complete application.

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

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 (LETTERS OF INTEREST)

http://www.abladeofgrass.org/application/guidelines/