FELLOWSHIP AWARD

Each year Kala awards Fellowships to eight artists from a variety of disciplines such as traditional and digital printmaking, book arts, photography, film, video, and installation art. The Fellowship Award supports artists in completing specific projects or bodies of work that would benefit from Kala's specialized equipment. In addition to up to six months of unlimited access to Kala’s facilities, the Fellowship also includes a generous cash award and a culminating exhibition presented in the Kala Gallery. This year’s international competition was juried by Kala’s Executive Director, Archana Horsting; Artistic Director, Yuzo Nakano; and Programs Manager, Lauren Davies. Kala was also pleased to include outside juror Berin Golonu, Associate Visual Arts Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.  

We are proud to announce the 2007-2008 Kala Fellowship Awardees:

Adriane Colburn, San Francisco, CA
Taraneh Hemami, San Francisco, CA
Leslie Shows, San Francisco, CA
Bayete Ross Smith, San Francisco, CA
Malcolm T. Smith, Berkeley, CA
Petra Vargova, Prague, Czech Republic
Richard T. Walker, London, United Kingdom
Katsutoshi Yuasa, London, United Kingdom

 

The selection of only eight artists from a highly competitive pool of talented applicants is a very difficult decision. The jurors have selected an additional eight artists to receive Honorable Mention Awards. This acknowledgement provides each of these artists with a complimentary one-month studio residency at Kala. These Honorable Mention residencies are intended to recognize the high caliber of these artists’ works and provide support for their current projects through the use of Kala’s facilities.

We are proud to announce the recipients of Kala’s 2007-2008 Honorable Mention residencies:

Nelleke Beltjens, Roermond, The Netherlands
Bill Burns, Toronto, Canada
Andrea Carini, Milan, Italy
Castaneda/Reiman (collaborating team), Tiburon, CA
Tara Daly, Oakland, CA
Amy Hicks, San Francisco, CA
Alice Miceli, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Susannah Sayler, New York, NY
Hadi Tabatabai, San Francisco, CA