Since its creation 50 years ago, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship has become one of the leading residency programs in the world.
Each year, the Work Center offers 20 seven-month residencies to a juried group of emerging visual artists, fiction writers, and poets. Each Fellow receives an apartment, a studio (for visual artists), and a monthly stipend of $1,250 plus an exit stipend of $1,000. Residencies run from October 1 through April 30. During this time, Fellows have the opportunity to pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community of peers.
The Fine Arts Work Center has hosted more than 1,000 Fellows since 1968, nurturing an accomplished and far-reaching alumni network. The impact of the experience is best illustrated by the extensive list of awards Fellows have gone on to win, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Prix de Rome, Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Residency
During the course of the Fellowship, each Writing Fellow is invited to give a public reading and each Visual Art Fellow is given a solo exhibition opportunity. Readings and openings are attended by current and past Fellows, local residents, visitors to Provincetown, leadership of the town’s numerous cultural institutions, and the many illustrious artists and writers who make their homes in Provincetown. Events take place in the beautifully renovated public spaces of the Work Center: the Stanley Kunitz Common Room and Hudson D. Walker Gallery.
Visiting Artists and Writers
While in residence, Fellows also help select a series of visiting artists and writers. These visiting artists and writers meet with the Fellows for studio visits and manuscript reviews and give public readings and artist talks that draw thousands from Provincetown and beyond. Visiting guests have included presidential inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel; winner of the National Book Award for Poetry Mark Doty; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Robert Pinsky; artist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Judy Pfaff; and Katherine Porter, whose work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The Work Center’s founders believed that seven months was the minimum amount of time needed for artists and writers in the crucial early stages of their careers to learn to structure their lives around their creative practice. Each generation of Fellows ideally moves on from the Work Center with a firm belief in their ability to pursue a life as a practicing artist or writer.
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Fellowship applications for 2025-2026 are now open.
The 2025-2026 Writing Fellowship deadline is December 16, 2024. The 2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship deadline is February 3, 2025.
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The Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship
Generous support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation has established the Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. This fellowship will be awarded each year, beginning in 2022-23, to an emerging woman writer of exceptional promise. The fellowship fully funds the 7-month residency and includes a $2,500 prize to help defray the cost of travel and living expenses.
Rona Jaffe Foundation fellows must be permanent residents of the U.S. and may not have published their first book in the standard edition. All eligible candidates will be automatically considered for this fellowship by the Fine Arts Work Center.
There is no separate application process for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship.
Fellowship Access Fund
The Fine Arts Work Center has established a Fellowship Access Fund, to increase access to the 7-month Fellowship opportunity for select candidates with particular financial needs.
This Fund supports extraordinary expenses that may prevent a selected candidate from accepting the Fellowship or from fully participating during the 7-month period. One-time awards will be limited, and range from $500 to $2,500.
Allocations are made following review by a committee made up of FAWC leadership, which includes staff, Trustees, and Fellowship Committee members, and will be paid upon selection.
There is no separate application process for the Fellowship Access Fund.
There are three tiers of pricing for the application process to increase accessibility. The application fee is tiered as follows:
$40 from now until November 15 at 11:59 AM,
$55 from November 15 at 12:00 PM until December 1 at 11:59 AM,
and $65 from December 1 at 12:00 PM until the application period closes
Application fees directly support Fellowship expenses, including Fellows stipends, the maintenance of artist live-work space, and overall administrative support.
The deadline for the Writing Fellowship application is December 16, 2024, while the Visual Arts Fellowship application is February 3, 2025.
Website link: https://fawc.org/apply/
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