Applications for the CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship Program in the USA in 2023 are currently open.
The ArtsLink International Fellowship program prioritizes applicants whose social practices seek to actively engage communities on issues related to the current climate emergency and human rights. It will actively encourage artists and arts leaders whose work is making a vital contribution to furthering people’s awareness, understanding, and active participation in environmental and/or social justice issues. Additionally, it will prioritize artists recently displaced from or still working in Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Worth of Award
ArtsLink International Fellowships offer an initial honorarium to Fellows and US hosts to cover the research residency and support for the subsequent project in the US to cover visa and travel, food and lodging, health insurance, and up to 50% of production costs.
Eligibility
- CEC ArtsLink welcomes applications from contemporary artists, curators, and arts leaders whose work is shaped by community engagement and social practice strategies, and informed by its most urgent local and global issues.
- It welcomes applications from artists of any generation and invites those with both traditional and non-traditional artistic backgrounds.
- Applicants must be citizens of one of the network countries. If you are living outside the region, please indicate where you are currently based.
- Please note that an ability to communicate both verbally and in written English will be essential to your success in the program.
Very Important
- Undergraduate students and research scholars are not eligible.
- Arts leaders/curators must be affiliated with an arts organization in the non-commercial sector or work as individual independent arts professionals.
- Artists seeking placement in commercial firms are ineligible.
- ArtsLink International Fellows from prior years are not eligible to reapply.
How to Apply
- Your application must include a letter of inquiry which is a brief presentation (400 words) of your interest in the Fellowship program and must include the impact you see it having on your practice.
- Consider the question, “Why would you like to participate in the program now?”
Deadline: Submit a full application of the CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship by February 25, 2023.