The McClure Gallery is currently accepting submissions for its 2025-2026 exhibition programme. Contemporary artists of all media and curators with an exhibition proposal are invited to apply.

  
**General Information**

* The gallery has two adjoining exhibition spaces; selected proposals will be presented in one or both of these.
* McClure Gallery is an integral part of the Visual Arts Centre and seeks projects that are in line with its mandate. Proposals should include why you want to show your work here specifically, and may include a proposed plan for the space (optional).
* Exhibition proposals are reviewed by a committee of peers which is renewed every year.
* The gallery may not be able to support certain new media artworks due to limited equipment.

Exhibition at The McClure Gallery.

McClure Gallery pays artist fees based on the CARFAC fee schedule.

  

The McClure Gallery: General Programming Open Call

VSC’s residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions.

Residents enjoy well-lit, private studios within a short walk to residency housing, dining hall, and local amenities. Studio spaces range from 170 - 300 square feet. Accommodations include a private room and shared common areas. The campus features include a print shop, digital lab, and metal, wood, ceramic facility. Studios are open 24 hours a day.

A VSC residency provides artists and writers the time and space to focus on their creative practice in an inclusive, international community within a small Vermont village. Residents can explore swimming holes, hiking and biking trails, as well as the rural charm of neighboring towns, while expanding their creative potential and building a solid network of friends and mentors.

**PROGRAMMING**

During each session, Visiting Artists and Visiting Writers are invited to join us for presentations, craft talks, one-on-one manuscript consultations, and individual studio visits. Residents can also enjoy open studio nights, resident presentations, and exhibition openings. All scheduled activities are optional. Residents are encouraged to unplug, completely immerse themselves in their work, and work at their own pace.

**COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION**

VSC is committed to community building both locally and on campus. Every resident has the opportunity to participate in our Community Contribution Program for 3 hours per week, by assisting in one of these areas: Kitchen, School Arts Program, Visual Arts, and the Writing Program. No prior experience is necessary.

**FEES AND FELLOWSHIPS**

Through the generosity of individual donors and foundation partners, VSC is able to ensure a full or partial fellowship for every attendee. All fellowships are awarded through a competitive process. More than one third of all VSC residents receive full fellowships each year.

**Lodging**

Each resident is provided with a furnished private room, private or shared bathroom, access to a shared kitchen and communal spaces. All residency housing is located in a quiet, residential neighborhood and is a short walk to studio buildings, administrative offices, amenities, and recreation. 

  
**Dining**

We prepare two communal meals a day, Monday - Saturday, brunch and dinner on Sunday. Breakfast is always available along with coffee, tea, and snacks at our self-serve breakfast bar. Our mission is to create comforting and nourishing meals with care and intention to fuel the creative practices of our resident community.

  
**See below for a complete list of 2025 Fellowship offerings and eligibility requirements:**

  
**VISUAL ARTISTS** 

* Clowes Family Foundation: Supports exceptional BIPOC artists living in Massachusetts, Vermont New Hampshire, Maine, or Indianapolis.
* Dohrn Zachai: Supports female visual artists aged 65 and older.
* Emily Mason & Wolf Kahn Fellowship: Supports exceptional visual artists based on the merit of the work.
* Harpo Foundation Native American Fellowship: Supports exceptional US-based Native American visual artists. This award includes a $500 travel stipend.
* Jon Imber Painting Fellowship: This fellowship honors the memory and work of VSC friend and Visiting Artist Jon Imber and supports painters in residence.
* Les Palettes du Kamer Fellowship: This fellowship supports two Cameroonian artists. By invitation only.
* Marshall Frankel Fellowship: Supports a mixed media visual artist with an emphasis on video in their work for a two-week residency. Preference is giving to female artists of color.
* Marshall and Margherite McComb Foundation Displaced Artists Fellowship: Supports displaced artists. By invitation only.
* PM Lilac Foundation Fellowship: Environmental and Social Justice Fellowship sponsored by the PM Lilac Foundation. This fellowship will provide support to artists whose work explores issues related to our environment and issues that explore social justice.
* Pollock-Krasner Fellowship: Supports visual artists with exceptional talent from the United States.
* Queen’s College CUNY Fellowship: Supports visual artists that attend Queen’s College CUNY in a 3-week residency and includes a $1000 stipend. By invitation only.
* Trout Lily Fellowship: Supports a visual artist with financial need attending a three-week residency. This fellowship includes a $1000 stipend.
* VSC Full and Partial Fellowships: Designated for exceptional visual artists, based on the merit of their work.
* Windgate Charitable Foundation Fellowship: Supports visual artists working in traditional craft media with financial need.

  
**WRITERS**

* ALTA Literary Translator Fellowship: This partnership offers two 2-week residencies on an annual basis to members of The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). One fellowship is offered to a BIPOC translator who identifies as queer/woman/non-binary/LGBTQ+. One fellowship is offered to a mid-career translator, defined as: a translator who has published three (3) or more full-length translations. All fellowships are restricted to ALTA members, whose status must be current. A translator can become an ALTA member at any time prior to applying. Translators working in any genre and from any language into English are eligible.
* Civil Society Institute Fellowship: Supports a US writer of color with demonstrable financial need. The award includes a $500 travel stipend.
* Dartmouth Fellowship: This partnership with the Dartmouth College Department of English and Creative Writing offers two fully funded residencies for Dartmouth College students. The award includes a stipend for travel.
* Harpo Foundation Native American Fellowship: Supports exceptional US-based Native American writers. This award includes a $500 travel stipend.
* Helen Zell Writers’ Program Fellowship: Supports one poet in their first-year currently enrolled in the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program for a four-week residency, June 30 to July 25, 2025.
* International Writing Program Fellowship: In partnership with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, one IWP resident each year is awarded a residency.
* James Merrill Poetry Fellowship: Supports American poets with demonstrable need. Made possible with support from the Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation.
* PM Lilac Foundation Fellowship: Environmental and Social Justice Fellowship sponsored by the PM Lilac Foundation. This fellowship will provide support to writers whose work explores issues related to our environment and issues that explore social justice.
* Poets & Writers Fellowship: Recent participants in Poets & Writers’ publicity incubator, Get the Word Out (GTWO), are invited to apply for a fully funded 3-week residency, November 3 to 21, 2025\. The fellowship will be available to fiction writers and poets in alternate years. The 2025 Poets & Writers Fellowship will be offered to a poet.
* Susanna Colloredo Fellowship: Established in honor of Susanna Colloredo for a writer whose creative work directly engages environmental issues, awareness, and the planet's complex challenges. This is a fellowship for a writer whose creative work directly engages environmental issues.
* Trout Lily Fellowship: Supports a writer with financial need attending a three-week residency. This fellowship includes a $1000 stipend.
* TRP’s X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Fellowship: Supports a three-week residency, in the summer, to a recipient of TRP’s X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Established in 1998, The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize highlights one full-length collection of poetry per year with a $10,000 advance and publication.
* Voices Rising Fellowship: Supports Black American woman fiction writers with demonstrable financial need. Given in honor of women writers of color such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston, whose voices have inspired so many. Each award includes a $2,000 stipend.
* VSC Dramatic Writer Fellowship supported by The John M. Bissell Foundation: This fellowship provides support for the residency of a playwright.
* VSC Full and Partial Fellowships: Designated for exceptional writers, based on the merit of their work.

Vermont Studio Center Residencies & Fellowships

An entry fee of $20 is required and necessary to support our advertising campaigns, promotional materials, and various administrative costs. To promote inclusivity and diversity, we offer merit-based and hardship fee waivers to citizens of a nation in a state of war or unrest, and those living in a country with a low economic index.

_Letters, Numbers & Symbols_explores the intersection of language, mathematics, and semiotics through the captured image. The fundamental building blocks of communication—letters, numbers, and symbols, often taken for granted, are reimagined and deconstructed in ways that challenge our perceptions and deepen our understanding of the visual and conceptual power of these basic units of meaning.

  
_Letters, Numbers & Symbols_ is an international open call for photographers ages 18 and older. ​​​​​​​All forms of two-dimensional images, traditional and non-conventional media, and conventional or alternative processes with a subjective analog or digital photographic base are welcome for submission.

Call For Photography: Letters, Numbers & Symbols

We're excited to invite artists from all backgrounds and disciplines to submit their work for our 'Open Theme' exhibition. This is a space for you to showcase the pieces that best represent your artistic vision, without the constraints of a specific theme. Whether your work reflects personal experiences, explores abstract concepts, or captures the beauty of everyday life, we encourage you to share it with us. This exhibition is about celebrating diversity in art and providing a platform for a wide range of creative voices.

  
Open to artists 18+ working in all mediums, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, mixed media and video. Applicants are not restricted on the number of entries but each entry is limited to 3 artworks. If you are submitting a 3D object, you may provide up to 3 images of said artwork to show different angles. This is an international exhibition. 

  
Image Exporting Instructions

* Jpeg Files
* 1500 px long side
* 300 DPI
* LastName\_FirstName\_Title

Questions?

Please email azaleaartscommunity@gmail.com

1st, 2nd & 3rd Place 

  
1st Place will receive an ‘artist interview’ in addition to being promoted on our Instagram.

Open Theme - Call for Art

**Our residency program is focused on your creative practice and all the ways it can manifest. Residents work independently on proposed project or research. Residents are also encouraged to do nothing, to rest, to not work. To read one book slowly. Or go into town everyday and explore. You may design this residency however you wish.**

  

Spring Art in Guatemala 

This residency provides an opportunity for an artist to join the community of the Rhodes Trust for one year as a non residential intellectual exchange project culminating in an exhibition at Rhodes House.

  
The Rhodes Trust seeks artists committed to the values and vision of the Trust, with a practice rooted in social justice and/or addressing the most pressing issues in the world today. The artist will work collaboratively with the community for the duration of the residency. The residency will operate on an annual basis. Applications will be invited from the public biannually. In the intervening years the residency will be limited to applicants from the global Rhodes Scholar community.

  
Each year the applicants will be asked to submit proposals that respond to a theme. For the first year, the committee have decided the theme to be **Radical Joy**.

  
We intend this exciting new opportunity to be as open as possible to engage with a wide range of artists, architects, designers and makers at all stages of their careers, and to be understanding of their individual circumstances. Entrants may showcase paintings, sculpture, drawings, textile, prints or mixed media, digital prints and collaborative artworks, photography.

* £15,000 (paid in installments)
* Reimbursement for travel and project materials up to £3,000
* The artist will be provided with accommodation at Rhodes House in Oxford for two visits: one week at the beginning of the residency, January 2025, and one around the launch of the exhibition, September 2025, for which their travel and accommodation will be provided by the Trust.
* An exhibition at Rhodes House in Autumn 2025.
* Inclusion in and access to online events

  
_Please note: The programme does not include studio space, housing, or travel costs. The Rhodes Trust does not offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity._

Radical Joy: Art for Global Impact Residency

**Art Omi: Artists** invites artists from around the world, representing a wide diversity of artistic styles and practices, to gather for four weeks each summer to experiment, collaborate and share ideas. Concentrated time for creative work is balanced with the stimulation of cultural exchange and critical appraisal.

  

Art Omi provides accommodations, meals, and campus-wide high-speed wi-fi throughout the duration of all residencies. In addition, residents share a fully-equipped kitchen, on-site laundry facilities, a library, and a basic computer (internet + printing access only, no software use) in the library. Art Omi also provides all blankets, towels, and bedding. Housekeeping staff launders all linens using perfume-free detergent on a regular basis.

2025 Artist in Residence Application

Be part of the most exciting virtual art gallery, according to the **British GQ Magazine!**

  
Artists from all countries are welcome to submit their works for consideration. You are welcome to submit works in any medium. (painting, photography, printmaking, video art, installation, films, sculpting, mixed media, poems, illustration, etc). The theme of the exhibition is OPEN.”
  
  

CODE: A hybrid art show

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with S•CAB, an international leader in contemporary modern furniture for outdoor, garden, and indoor settings, both private and contract. Thanks to SCAB, we can now offer you an unparalleled experience with access to exclusive materials that you won't find anywhere else!

  
Nautical Club Ohrid – Architecture Competition Participants are invited to submit innovative adaptive-reuse projects focused on the “Youth Union Summer Retreat” building in Ohrid, working on the recover y of this modern heritage left unused for over twenty years. Taking inspiration from Boris Chipan's original program, the competition requires the design of a Nautical & Social Club open to both the local community and the seasonal tourists. The idea is to conceive a dynamic social space capable of attracting citizens and visitors to the western side of the lakefront, providing an engaging alternative to the fanciest Eastern Ohrid. The main challenge will be to envision how this 70+ years old structure could serve the needs of a contemporary vibrant lake-club.

1st Prize: 3.000 €

2nd Prize: 1.000 €

3rd Prize: 500 €

  
10 Golden Mentions: 250€ each

Nautical Club Ohrid: Adaptive-Reuse Architecture Competition

For the third time now, Fumetto, together with the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland, is awarding the PULSAR comic sponsorship prize: the award goes to a young talent, at the beginning of a promising comic career. Are you a comic artist, a yet undiscovered star in the comic cosmos? Then send us your idea!

  
The theme of the PULSAR 2025 is “**LIGHT / SHADOW**”. The Pulsar comic should have an explicit reference to the basic idea and obligations of the Weltethos project (for further information see also the “Declaration of the global ethos”).

  
Fumetto and the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland will select a winner from the dossiers received by the end of October 2024\. The project starts with a kick-off meeting as soon as possible at the end of October with the artist, Fumetto and the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland, including an inspection of the exhibition location in the Heiliggeistkapelle in Lucerne.

  
The production period for the comic is from the end of October 2024 to the end of February 2025\. In January 2025 there will be a joint update meeting with Fumetto and the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland. The comic should be completed by the beginning of March 2025, the exact date for the print deadline is yet to be announced.

  
The exhibition construction will take place between March 24th and April 4th, 2025, with support from the Fumetto construction team. The award ceremony will take place as part of Fumetto on Saturday, April 12, 2025, at 4 p.m.

PULSAR consists of a cash prize of CHF 2500, a solo exhibition at the Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern 2025 from 5th to 13th April 2025 and a publication (300 copies, of these, 30 specimen copies will go to the artist). As a festival artist, you will receive a festival pass, the official festival T-shirt, food during the festival days and invitations to all events.

Pulsar Comic Sponsorship Award

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