NEW: $25K Fellowships Available to Writers—RI Foundation
Thursday, July 05, 2012
You a writer who needs money? You know a writer who need money? Read on. The Rhode Island Foundation is now accepting applications for the Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowships. The Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund, established at the Foundation in 2003, provides up to three $25,000 artist fellowships each year, rotating among composers, writers, and visual artists on a three-year cycle. The 2012 fellowships will be awarded to writers.
Three $25K fellowships available
In all three disciplines, the fellowships are awarded to emerging to midcareer Rhode Island artists whose work demonstrates exceptional creativity, rigorous dedication and consistent artistic practice, and significant artistic merit. The financial support enables artists to concentrate time on the creative process, focus on personal or professional development, expand their body of work, and explore new directions.
Robert Johnson worked with The Rhode Island Foundation for nine years between his wife’s death in 1990 and his own in 1999 to fashion a lasting legacy for Rhode Island artists. Johnson was design director for Reed and Barton silversmiths. When he retired, he devoted the remainder of his artistic life to painting and metal design at the Mill House Studio in Tiverton. His wife, Margaret MacColl Johnson, was a public relations expert with a second career in academia. She sponsored the 19-Mile Festival, a two-week show of contemporary music at Brown University, and received a degree in creative writing at age 70.
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Applications are due by September 4, 2012, and the Fellows will be announced in January 2013. For more information and application details go here.
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