durational pedagogies fellowship, dia chelsea, 2025–26

Fellowships at Dia offer emerging artists, educators, and cultural producers in the suggested age range of 20–26 exposure to and practice in being both the author and protagonist of their own creative, intellectual, and professional trajectories. Based at Dia Chelsea and engaging Dia’s constellation of sites, the fellowship explores the potential for meaningful learning experiences at the intersection of contemporary art, experimental pedagogy, and community engagement.

Now in its third year, Dia’s Learning and Engagement Fellowship invites opportunities for deep, evolving inquiry into time-based and durational approaches across diverse forms of creative and pedagogical practice, proposing a rigorous engagement with temporality and its role in shaping memory, imagination, experience, and exchange. How do constructions of time—from the ephemeral and nonlinear to the cyclical and enduring—shape our ability to learn, make meaning, and find shared resonance within community.

Rooted in Dia’s commitment to long-form inquiry and artist-led experimentation, the cohort will participate in process-driven research, dialogue, and mentorship, fostering individual growth while nurturing a collective exploration of how pedagogical and artistic practices can be attuned to time and responsive to Dia, its communities, and broader spheres of cultural production.

Fellowship details

• Department: Learning and Engagement
• Cohort: Eight fellows, suggested age 20–26
• Duration: October 2025–June 2026

Schedule:

• Monthly cohort session: One Friday per month at Dia Chelsea; select sessions will take place offsite and with extended hours
• Monthly mentorship meetings
• Monthly program engagement