U.S.-Japan Foundation Funds Two Visual Artist Awards at Vermont Studio Center
[JOHNSON, VT] — The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) will offer two new 8-week residency fellowships during 2010 for Japanese visual artists interested in developing new creative work, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Japan Foundation.
The U.S.-Japan Foundation Fellowship Program is in its inaugural year and will provide two month-long residencies to outstanding visual artists from Japan. In addition to the benefits of cultural exchange as part of VSC’s international creative community, each U.S.-Japan Foundation Fellow receives roundtrip airfare, materials and shipping allowances, health insurance, a small stipend, and a cultural trip to New York.
The Vermont Studio Center is an international artists and writers residency program dedicated to supporting an international, multicultural and multidisciplinary community of contemporary painters, printmakers, sculptors and writers in their individual creative pursuits. Vermont Studio Center’s fellowship fund has brought artists and writers to VSC from 96 countries.
Over the past 25 years, 170 visual artists from Japan have applied to Vermont Studio Center and 62 have had the opportunity to work with their creative process through studio immersion, open studios, slide talks, and mentorship from VSC’s roster of distinguished artists. Moreover the program continues to promote cultural exchange and artistic excellence. Each artist will be provided with the invaluable and prestigious opportunity to focus for two months totally on creative work, and to exchange ideas and culture with American and international peers and mentors, in the supportive world that is the Vermont Studio Center.
International programs are the heart of the Vermont Studio Center’s reputation and reality as an international artist residency and immensely important to VSC’s past, present, and future. Recent recipients of fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center include;
Michinori Maru, Kanagawa, painter
Kenji Endo, Isikawa, sculptor
Kumi Ecchuya, Tokyo, sculptor
The fellowship application deadline is April 1, 2010. To learn more about the U.S.-Japan Foundation Fellowship Program and to request an application, contact David Grozinsky at 802 635-2727 ext. 214 or admissions@vermonstudiocenter.org well in advance of the deadline.
