The Virginia Commission for the Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the FY2022 Artist Fellowship Award. Fellowships are awarded annually to artists residing in Virginia in recognition of creative excellence and to support their pursuit of artistic excellence. This year, six Virginia artists have been honored in the field of poetry. Each artist will receive Fellowships of $5,000.

Fellowships in Poetry were awarded to:

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is currently accepting applications from writers, visual artists, and composers for Fall 2022 residencies to take place between September 1 and December 31, 2022, at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

All residencies include a private bedroom with en-suite bath, a separate private studio, and three meals a day in a community of cross-disciplinary artists.

Residencies can be transformative to an artist’s process and the effect on an artist’s career profound. A residency at VCCA gives artists the time and space to explore and go deeper into their work. Away from the constraints of “the real world” and in an accepting environment of talented peers, one can dream and create with the feeling that anything is possible.

In addition to significant need-based financial assistance, VCCA is proud to offer six fully-funded fellowship opportunities for the Fall 2022 residency period, including the new Marian Treger Fellowship for Enduring Creativity.

Update on Transition from DUNS to UEI (SAM.GOV)

Effective April 4, 2022, the federal government will phase out the use of DUNS numbers and move to a 12-character unique entity identifier (UEI) created in SAM.gov. This transition streamlines SAM.gov registration for new entities and eliminates the need to work through Dun & Bradstreet for ongoing entity management.