Artist Fellowships: Socially-Engaged Creative Practice

Interchange fellowships of $25,000 will be awarded to 16 artists from Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas in support of themselves and their socially-engaged creative practices. Fellows will participate in two professional development retreat weekends over the 18-month program. Working in small peer groups with the support of artist peer facilitators, fellows will explore their practices, goals, legal and financial strategies, and emotional-support structures. On-going support is provided throughout the program through quarterly 90-minute workshops and one-on-one mentoring sessions. The program culminates with the fellows sharing their practices and ideas with the field through a Social Practice in Conversation open to the public. Recognizing that there are a broad array of definitions and distinctions in the field commonly referred to as social and civic practice, Interchange uses the following broad definitions: a current and ongoing artistic practice that

includes working with communities (defined by geography or characteristics) to make change; a creative practice that responds to social issues, challenges, and opportunities; and/or a creative practice characterized by processes and products directly linked to their intended social impact. The M-AAA Interchange Application period opens on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 9:00 am CST and closes Monday, April 15, 2024 at 5:00 pm CST. We encourage artists to prepare their narrative answers on a separate document and paste their answers into the online application form. In addition, we ask artists to submit an artist’s bio, artist’s statement, resume/CV (3 pages maximum in a pdf format); up to five work samples (literary, audio, video and/or images); and a work sample summary (1000 word maximum). For program details and application form: https://interchangeartistgrant.art/ A program of M-AAA, the Interchange program is made possible through the support of the Mellon Foundation.