MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists Information Sessions Application Overview (with Program Director, Kerry Morgan) Pre-recorded, link available mcad.edu/jerome Work Samples, Statements, and Application Strategies (with 2019/20 Jerome fellow, Kaamil A. Haider) Pre-recorded, link available mcad.edu/jerome Tuesday, August 4, noon–1:00 p.m. Work Samples, Statements, and Application Strategies (with Fellowship Coordinator, Melanie Pankau) Thursday, August 20, 6:30–7:30 p.m. Work Samples, Statements, and Application Strategies (with Program Director, Kerry Morgan) This fellowship program is generously funded by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.
MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists The goal of this fellowship program is to support visual artists in Minnesota, early in their careers, creating bold, innovative, and risk-taking new work that challenges conventional artistic forms. Artists considered for this fellowship may work in a variety of visual art media, including both traditional and new media. This Fellowship supports visual artists, including but not limited to: painters, sculptors, drawers, printmakers, sequential/comic artists, public artists, social practice artists, conceptual, installation, graffiti, textile, ceramics, glass, bead, metal, paper, and photography and digital video or film (presented in an exhibition or installation context).
Fellowship Highlights The MCAD–administered fellowship program uses an independent jury of three arts professionals to competitively award four fellowships. The fellowship runs from November 30, 2020–November 30, 2021 and includes: • $10,000 – The funds may be used to purchase materials, cover production costs of artwork, and to supplement living or travel costs. Awards are subject to state and federal income tax guidelines. • Three studio visits from professional critics (2 local, I national). • An exhibition at the MCAD Gallery in Fall 2021. • A catalog with a critical essay on each artist’s work. • The opportunity to partake in a public panel discussion. • Access to MCAD’s facilities, library, and ½ off tuition for Continuing Education courses.
Application Process Deadline: Friday, September 18, noon (12 p.m.) CT Online Application only. Visit https://mcad.submittable.com/ submit to apply. Application materials: Completed Entry/Contact Information Form • Proof of MN residency • Ten images (jpgs only) • Two videos (optional) 3 min. each • Additional PDF (optional) For artists’ work that involves text, artist books, book • spreads, didactics, texts that are unreadable in the images submitted, or complex installation views that include multiple components. Five page max. Résumé (list form) • Artist statement (1 page, 500 words max) • Fellowship Goals Statement (1 page, 500 words max) •
Selection Process: Important Dates Application Deadline: Friday, Sept. 18, noon (12:00 p.m.) CT • – Round 1 = Three jurors review all applications, provide score between 1 and 5 – Round 2 = Top 25-30 applicants (receiving highest score) reviewed second time, conference call held to determine 10 finalists who will get studio visits Email Notification: Monday, October 30 • – All applicants to receive email letting them know whether or not they made it to round 2. If you were among the top 25-30 you can receive written and oral comments from juror. – 10 finalists will receive phone call to set up time for studio visits Jury Studio Visits: Sat., Nov. 14 and Sun., Nov. 15 • Fellowship Announcement: Monday, Nov. 30 •
General Tips: Images: • First image is extremely important, sets the tone for your whole application. Make sure it is visually compelling/strong. • Avoid submitting composite images unless the work is a diptych or triptych. They can be visually confusing. • Consider including one installation view and one detail of a work. Optional Additional Image Info (400 characters) • Only use when necessary, be concise. • Use this section to provide detailed info about process/project, installation location, info that will provide the juror with a greater understanding of what they are viewing. • Avoid personal commentary and interpreting the work for the jurors. Artist Statement: • Limit to one page (500 words max). • The statement must address the images that you are submitting. • Avoid being overly biographical/telling your life story unless it directly relates to the images/project. Fellowship Goals Statement: • Limit to one page (500 words max). • Describe what new work you plan to create during the fellowship year. Be clear and concise. • Why is this a pivot moment in your practice where this fellowship would make a difference. A budget is not required. Resume: • Follow College Art Association artist resume guidelines. • Avoid using graphic embellishments, keep it simple. • List format: EDUCATION: 2010 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MFA 2005 University of Minnesota, BFA SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2020 Untitled , Gallery 123, Minneapolis, MN
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow Statement: My sculptures derive from the transformation of mundane and peripheral objects. These sculptures present themselves as artifacts from a world that is close to our understanding, emulating the forms of everyday objects while obscuring their own purpose. Machine-like in their appearance, the surfaces of these works introduce an inherent sense of touch by the artist’s labor, as each sculpture combines elements that are industrially fabricated with those that are meticulously handcrafted using a variety of traditional techniques. Inherent to the work that I make is a conversation about surface, which is really a conversation about touching. I see touch operating as a means of intimacy and desire, distance and displacement. A product of an accumulation of my touch, the surfaces are embedded with history and memory. I like to think we eventually embed a part of ourselves or develop a type of attachment with these everyday things that were once so cold and distant from our touch. This accumulation also results in a transformation, shifting the nature of the way an object is seen and felt, assigning awkward adjectives onto familiar forms.
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow The coming year: As a Jerome Fellow I would be able to accomplish three goals in the coming year: 1) create a new body of work with an emphasis on the relationship between ergonomic forms and the body; 2) spend more time on my art by reducing employment commitments; and, 3) travel to Greece. I believe together they will foster strong momentum and new insights. 1. New Body of Work: One of the goals I have in creating a new body of work is to better understand the relationship between everyday objects and the individuals they come encounter with. By researching display strategies, prop design, and materials choices as well as testing the extent to which/ways in which we form relationships with objects that surround us, I believe I will be able to create strange and compelling narratives within my sculptures that will further their uncanny qualities. 2. Dedicated Studio Time: In the past I have needed to take large periods of time-off from my job for residencies, exhibition preparation and studio time. In order to remain financially stable I have to counter this requested time-off with condensed periods of excessive hours of employment. This back and forth rhythm within the studio creates pauses and delays in my creative practice. With the aid of a Jerome Fellowship I would have the opportunity to suspend the necessity of employment and fully concentrate on my artistic practice. 3. Travel: My final goal as a Jerome Fellow would be to travel to Greece to see and experience part of my heritage, as my Mother’s side of my family is from Greece. Visiting Museums there like the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, the Acropolis Museum and other Greek museums will give me the chance to gather new information and ideas that I expect will shape my art in unexpected ways.
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Zachary Betts, 2019/20 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow ( optional) pdf
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Mara Duvra, 2018/19 Fellow
Questions? Applicants are welcome to schedule one-on-one appointments (over the phone or Zoom) with fellowship staff. Please call or email Kerry Morgan, program director, and Melanie Pankau, fellowship coordinator, at 612.874.3667 or gallery@mcad.edu.
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