2025 NCECA Fellowships
Formation, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Chanakarn Semachai (Punch), Controlling Their Dreams, 2021
2025 NCECA Emerging Artist Fellowships
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, September 5, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone).
Six Emerging Artists will be selected for the 2025 cohort through a review of statements, images, and support documents submitted for consideration. Emerging Artists will receive a $3,300 fellowship award and be featured prominently in NCECA programming, social media, and publications.
Summer Brooks, Locks, 2021
11th Annual NCECA Multicultural Fellowships
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, September 19, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone).
Up to 20 fellowships will be awarded to first-time conference participants whose cultural identities have been historically underrepresented in NCECA and the field at large. This opportunity supports travel and other expenses related to participation in the upcoming annual NCECA conference.
Audrey An, Table Scapes, 2021
21st Annual NCECA Graduate Student Fellowships
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, September 19, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone).
Up to three $2,000 fellowships will be awarded to current NCECA Student Members who are full-time graduate students matriculated in a degree program at an accredited college, university, or art institute in the US at the time of the application deadline.
Katie Stone, Pasture Puff, 2021
26th Annual Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, September 19, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone).
Up to three $2,000 fellowships will be awarded to current NCECA Student Members who are full-time, part-time undergraduate, or post-baccalaureate students enrolled at an accredited college, university, or art institute in the U.S. at the time of the application deadline.
Carly Slade, Alberta Truck, (Detail Rat Race), 2021
6th Annual Helene Zucker Seeman Fellowships for Women
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, September 19, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone).
Up to two $2,500 fellowships will be awarded to female-identifying candidates: one to a 2025 Emerging Artist and one to an applicant engaged with curatorial, research, and/or critical writing. (“Women” and “female” are terms inclusive of trans and cis women as well as genderqueer and non-binary individuals.)
Ronald Rael, Casa Covida, 2021
3rd Annual NCECA Environmental Sustainability Fellowship
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, September 19, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone)
One proposal will be selected to receive a $2,000 fellowship. The purpose of the NCECA Environmental Sustainability Fellowship is to advance environmental sustainability and green practices in ceramics through research, writing, and/or action.
Modern Eden Gallery, 2022 NCECA Gallery Expo
2nd Annual Anne W. & Bill Bracker Youth Educator Seed Fellowship
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, September 19, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone).
One proposal will be selected to receive a $2,000 fellowship. The purpose of the NCECA Youth Educators Seed Fellowship is to advance innovation and expand access to opportunities for projects and programs that engage youth ages 2–18 in creative work with clay.
Ray Chen, Mother and Child, 2019
1st Annual NCECA International Creative Research Fellowship
Applications AND Recommender responses must be submitted by Thursday, October 3, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern time zone).
One proposal will be selected to receive a $4,000 fellowship. The purpose of the NCECA International Creative Research Fellowship is to provide support for artists who pursue opportunities to create, experience, and/or research artwork while immersed in cultures outside of their native or residential home base.