Small Gifts

25 reasons to love (and give to) VSC

The residency experience is meaningful, fun and inspired in different ways for everyone, but most people agree that the small things make a difference…

As part of the fall effort to raise fellowship dollars for next year’s residents, we started a list of the reasons we love VSC, and hope you’ll add to it.

1.    A community of like-minded peers
2.    Meditation at 7:30 a.m.
3.    Bacon on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
4.    Wading in the Gihon
5.    Camp fires in zero degree weather
6.    Star showers at stargazer’s field
7.    Dance parties in life drawing
8.    Readings and presentations open to the public
9.    Open studios
10.  New collaborations
11.  Mark’s key lime pie
12.  Snow football in brilliant sunshine and 6 degree weather
13.  Because the arts are who we are- the best of who we are
14.  For the international goodwill that VSC creates
15.  Louise's garden
16.  Filling the walls of my studio
17.  Making new friends from all over the world
18.  Losing track of time every day in the studio
19.  The artists and writers who work on staff at VSC
20.  Delicious bread
21.  Being inspired in Lowe Lecture Hall
22.  Thanksgiving!
23.  VSC's mission
24.  Because art makes the world go "round"
25.  Add your reason

The small gifts you received at VSC were likely made possible by the small gifts of others… Thanks for your contributions this year.  If you’d like to make a gift but haven’t done so already, you may do so online.