Welcome to the September 2022 edition of VCCA's monthly newsletter focused on keeping Fellows, staff, and supporters connected. With summer winding down, this is the last "Wednesday Lemonade" newsletter before we transition to "Wednesday Cider" in honor of fall. In addition to a shift in seasons and seasonal beverages, for VCCA this time of year brings a big deadline and a variety of exciting events. Read on for more info and more news from the VCCA community.

Photo by Paige Critcher 🌙

As the latest recipient of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Fellowship, Baltimore artist and educator Ernest Shaw attended a two-week residency at Mt. San Angelo this summer.

“My time at VCCA was both peaceful and inspiring,” says Shaw. “Being in company with so many talented creatives, in such a calm environment, is a recipe for creative success.”

Last month, VCCA's triannual virtual Fireplace Series welcomed visual artists Donna R. Charging and Millian Giang Pham for an evening of art and conversation. A recording is available!

Currently accepting applications for Summer 2023, the SSG & AC Edwards Fellowship provides a free two-week residency open to Native American visual artists and female-identifying visual artists.

JoAnn Balingit and Reece Camp Carter

Residency application deadlines for:

VCCA, Mt. San Angelo, VA, Summer 2023

VCCA, Le Moulin à Nef, France, 2023

International Exchange, Austria, 2023

International Exchange, Germany, 2023

VCCA Salon at Sweet Briar College

Fall Open Studios at Mt. San Angelo

Fellows and friends of VCCA are invited to join us in the heart of Chelsea’s Art District for our annual reunion in NYC. We hope to see you this weekend on Saturday, September 10, from 5 to 7 p.m.!

The fall semester is underway at neighboring Sweet Briar College, which means we're gearing up for the return of the VCCA/SBC Salon series featuring VCCA Fellows. First up, poet and essayist JoAnn Balingit and mixed media artist Reece Camp Carter will share their work in this free event open to the community.

We're looking forward to welcoming visitors to two public events at Mt. San Angelo in late October!

Participate in Fall Volunteer Day on Saturday, October 22, and/or visit us for our last public Open Studios event of the year on Sunday, October 23.

September 15 is our annual deadline for international residency programs open only to VCCA Fellows. This includes two International Exchange programs as well as VCCA's residency program at Le Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. The Spiral Shell Fellowship is available for VCCA Fellows who are writers applying to Le Moulin à Nef.

It's also the deadline for Summer 2023 residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia. Included in that application is a fantastic collection of fellowships made possible by generous supporters. Be sure to check your eligibility and share the word with others:

Current Fellows Council members are hosting four open info session via Zoom, this first of which is this Saturday, September 10! We encourage you to sign up for a session if you're interested.

Fellows, share your news. This is a way to tell the VCCA community about your work. We're always especially interested in stories about work created in connection to your VCCA residency.

"Material Investment," curated by Leslie Roberts, The Bank, Newark, Ohio, Sept. 9- Oct. 16. This exhibition in a former Art Deco bank presents 11 artists dedicated to using materials in unconventional ways. Included are fellows Amanda Love, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Jeff Wallace, and Mandy Cano Villalobos, as well as artists Alex Paik, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Lisha Bai, Sean Desiree, Tracey Goodman, and Vadis Turner. This project was conceived at VCCA in January 2022.

In Morality Play, Lauren Hilger forges a restless path between the impressionable folly of youth and the boundlessness of individual becoming. A motley bildungsroman of fierce imagination, Morality Play reveals, and revels in, the paradox inherent in its title, angling for a tender virtue in the sensuousness of words.

"I attended VCCA in August, 2021. My residency was a great success and instrumental in my acquiring an agent and subsequently, a publisher for my debut novel which will be released in Fall 2023. Stay tuned!"

"Thrilled to announce the publication of my memoir, DAUGHTER OF SPIES: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies, Regal House, October 25, 2022"

"Andrea Carter Brown's poetry collection September 12, written largely at VCCA and published for the 20th anniversary of 9/11, was recently awarded the 2022 IPPY Silver Medal in Poetry from the Independent Publishers Group. Last spring she did a reading tour of the Midwest, where she read in Des Moines with Debra Marquart, a VCCA Wachtmeister Award recipient. This September, she will be reading in NYC on 9/10 at 3 pm at the Jefferson Market Library with KC Trommer and Scott Hightower and on 9/11 in the series "A Persistence of Cormorants" on the Brooklyn waterfront with Dennis Nurkse, Sarah Arvio, and Carol Rosenstock. She would be thrilled to see friends from her many happy and productive residencies at VCCA - in Virginia and France."

Browse VCCA's page on Bookshop.org to find new books written by VCCA Fellows.

VCCA Fellows: To tell VCCA about your forthcoming books, send us your news.

🧡 Stay safe, and be well.

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