grant for 8 week residency at Artist Retreat

© 2012  The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation 
Supporting artists, writers + composers from the greater Washington, DC Area

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation has awarded VCCA a $10,000 grant to support residencies for artists, writers and composers from the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. The grant will be used to offer five fully-funded residencies for artists who have not previously had a residency at this world-class artists’ retreat.

These two- to eight-week residencies in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains include all meals, private rooms and private studios so that recipients have time and space to focus entirely on their creative work. Dinner is in the stimulating company of approximately 24 other artists, writers and composers from across the nation and around the world. Deadline to apply is May 15, 2012.

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To Apply for a VCCA Residency

Next Deadline: May 15

Admission to VCCA is highly selective, based on a review of applications by panels of professional artists. There are separate panels for each category (poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights, performance, film and video artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, composers and cross-disciplinary artists) with over fifty panelists serving at any one time. These panelists undergo periodic review to ensure that selection to VCCA is being made by the highest caliber artists in each discipline. Panelists are also rotated regularly to ensure that particular styles or tastes are not continuously represented. The basis for admission by an application is professional achievement or promise of achievement.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, artists submit an application form, resume and samples of their work. You can download an application here:  
 
If you are applying for the Goldfarb Fellowship or the Fellowship for Social Media Artists - please note it on your application. If you would like more information about the current special programs, click here.PLEASE NOTE:
Currently, the Online Application is ONLY FOR VISUAL ARTISTS!
WHEN TO APPLY
Applications are accepted and reviewed throughout the year, but scheduling is conducted at only three designated times during the year. Deadlines are as follows:

© 2012  The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

June to September Residencies 

Deadline: January 15
Notification: mailed by March 31

October to January Residencies

Deadline: May 15
Notification: mailed by July 31

February to May Residencies

Deadline: September 15
Notification: mailed by November 30

Residency Cost

Artists are accepted at VCCA without consideration for their financial situation.
We ask Fellows to contribute according to their ability.
The actual cost to us of a residency is $180 per day.


Collaborators and Couples
Collaborators and couples should apply individually, paying individual application fees, with the understanding that one person may be accepted and the other may not. Please note on your application if you are willing to attend a residency if the person you are applying with is not accepted. Each artist or writer accepted for a residency will be offered a separate workspace, unless otherwise requested.