FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

The Kala Fellowship award is an international competition open to artists from the U.S. and around the world. Artists producing innovative work in book arts, electronic/digital media (video, sound, animation, etc.), installation art, social practice, photography, and printmaking are encouraged to apply. Fellowship Awards will be given based on conceptual creativity, originality and artistic excellence as well as project specific technical knowledge.

The Kala Fellowship Program annually grants nine artists a cash award, unlimited access to Kala’s facilities for up to six months, one Kala class, and a culminating show in the Kala Gallery. The award is geared towards supporting artists in completing specific projects or bodies of work that would benefit from Kala's specialized equipment in printmaking and digital media.

This year Kala has reserved at least one of the nine awards for a one month Artist Project Space residency, where the artists' projects are developed in an open to the public studio space for one month as part of their full fellowship residency. This program is geared toward artists making work that is appropriate to develop onsite and engages the public in some form. Another of the nine awards is designated for a California artist living outside of a main metropolitan area with funding provided by The James Irvine Foundation.

Hosting nine new artists at Kala each year helps to ensure that the artistic energy and vision of Kala’s entire community of artists in residence is continually re-energized and rejuvenated.

The 2013 Fellowship competition will be juried by Kala's Directors and an anonymous panel that includes one fellowship alumni artist, and one invited Bay Area arts professional.

Applicants are invited to apply online through our slideroom portal here: kala.slideroom.com

Please look here for more information about the Kala Fellowship Award and Application Guidelines.

The application deadline for the 2013 Fellowship award is Friday, May 24, 2013.

Kala is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Fellowship Awards:

Stella Ebner, New York, NY
Chris Fraser, Oakland, CA
Kyung Sook Koo, Sacramento, CA
Margaret Leininger, Chandler, AZ
Colin James Lyons, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Sanaz Mazinani, San Francisco, CA
Osvaldo Ramirez, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clint Wilson, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Noah Wilson, Oakland, CA

Honorable Mention Awards:

Jeff Eisenberg, San Francisco, CA
Theodora Varnay Jones, San Francisco, CA
Michael Koehle, Oakland, CA
Daniel Nevers, Berkeley, CA