The Spillway Fellowship Program seeks applicants cultivating a range of work across visual art disciplines and socially-engaged practice.
Through support for early career artists and culture bearers from Minnesota and the Native Nations in this geography, fellowships will be offered to artists and culture bearers whose practice is committed to considering the multilayered intersections of culture, land, and history. To advance this work and deepen these connections, fellows will build relationships with individuals and organizations across multiple local visits that culminate - through time and trust - in a public presentation, event, or exhibition in Winona, Minnesota, a town located along the Mississippi River in Dakota homelands.
With support from The Jerome Foundation, the Spillway Fellowship Program will connect the creativity and vision of fellows to the complex social, historical, land-based questions, legacies, and intercultural dynamics of this region. Drawing upon Art of the Rural’s long-term local and regional partnerships, this fellowship offers artists and culture bearers the time and relational space in which to engage and offer their creative practice towards meaningful social impacts.
The program offers a deep, intercultural, and career-expanding experience to early career artists and culture bearers while providing the region with opportunities for public dialogue, community creativity, and intercultural exchange. Art of the Rural will create specific, valuable media to document the fellows’ work, and activate our national network of artists, curators, thought leaders, and partners to engage with the artists and expand visibility and network connectivity for their work.
Apply by June 25.