Residencies
Harpo Foundation Native American Residency at Vermont Studio CenterPhoto credit: Matt Neckers
Since 2011, the foundation has awarded two residency fellowships to Native American visual artists at the Vermont Studio Center to support the development of visual artists and the potential for inter-cultural dialog.
In 2020, in accordance with Ed Levine’s bequest, this program is now endowed as the Harpo Foundation Native American Residency at Vermont Studio Center and will provide two full residency fellowships, one to a visual artist and one to a writer, each year in perpetuity.
Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists’ and writers’ Residency Program in the United States, hosting 50 visual artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world. The Studio Center provides 4-12 week residencies on an historic 30 building campus along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, a village in the heart of the northern Green Mountains.
TWO FELLOWSHIPS ARE AWARDED ANNUALLY TO NATIVE AMERICAN VISUAL ARTISTS AND WRITERS WHO DEMONSTRATE:
- Strong artistic ability
- An evolving practice this is at a pivotal moment in its development
- A practice that engages a dialogue between the artist’s indigenous world and the surrounding culture
APPLICATION PROCESS AND DEADLINES
To find out more about this opportunity, please contact Mara Siegel at 802 635-2727 at the Vermont Studio Center.
Previous Recipients
2024
Alec Tiger (writer)
James Rivera (visual artist)
Tyson Housemann (visual artist)
2023
Eliana Ramage (writer)
Savannah Lecornu (visual artist)
Delia Touché (visual artist)
2022
Gretchen Potter (writer)
Sarah Rowe (visual artist)
2020
Lena Tseabbe Wright
Joe Harjo
2019
Wanesia Spry Misquadace
Sydney Pursel
2018
Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert
Ricardo Ruiz
2017
Gerald Clarke
Ryan Flores
2016
Tomahawk GreyEyes
Jeremy Dennis
2015
Rachel Mulvihill
James Angello
2014
Rochelle Kulei Nielsen
Margaret Jacobs
2013
Gina Herrera
Elisa Harkins
2012
Tiffney Yazzie
Ross Chaney
2011
Corey Stein
Mercedes Dorame
Previous Recipients
Joe Harjo
Joe Harjo is a multidisciplinary artist from the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma and is currently working and teaching in San Antonio, TX. His work uncovers the lack of visibility of Native...
Lena Tseabbe Wright
Lena Tseabbe Wright is an indigenous multimedia artist. She aims to educate audiences about Indigenous American issues and stories. She focuses less on narratives of destruction and trauma, and more...