VSC’s residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions.

Residents enjoy well-lit, private studios within a short walk to residency housing, dining hall, and local amenities. Studio spaces range from 170 - 300 square feet. Accommodations include a private room and shared common areas. The campus features include a print shop, digital lab, and metal, wood, ceramic facility. Studios are open 24 hours a day.

A VSC residency provides artists and writers the time and space to focus on their creative practice in an inclusive, international community within a small Vermont village. Residents can explore swimming holes, hiking and biking trails, as well as the rural charm of neighboring towns, while expanding their creative potential and building a solid network of friends and mentors.

**PROGRAMMING**

During each session, Visiting Artists and Visiting Writers are invited to join us for presentations, craft talks, one-on-one manuscript consultations, and individual studio visits. Residents can also enjoy open studio nights, resident presentations, and exhibition openings. All scheduled activities are optional. Residents are encouraged to unplug, completely immerse themselves in their work, and work at their own pace.

**COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION**

VSC is committed to community building both locally and on campus. Every resident has the opportunity to participate in our Community Contribution Program for 3 hours per week, by assisting in one of these areas: Kitchen, School Arts Program, Visual Arts, and the Writing Program. No prior experience is necessary.

**FEES AND FELLOWSHIPS**

Through the generosity of individual donors and foundation partners, VSC is able to ensure a full or partial fellowship for every attendee. All fellowships are awarded through a competitive process. More than one third of all VSC residents receive full fellowships each year.

**Lodging**

Each resident is provided with a furnished private room, private or shared bathroom, access to a shared kitchen and communal spaces. All residency housing is located in a quiet, residential neighborhood and is a short walk to studio buildings, administrative offices, amenities, and recreation. 

  
**Dining**

We prepare two communal meals a day, Monday - Saturday, brunch and dinner on Sunday. Breakfast is always available along with coffee, tea, and snacks at our self-serve breakfast bar. Our mission is to create comforting and nourishing meals with care and intention to fuel the creative practices of our resident community.

  
**See below for a complete list of 2025 Fellowship offerings and eligibility requirements:**

  
**VISUAL ARTISTS** 

* Clowes Family Foundation: Supports exceptional BIPOC artists living in Massachusetts, Vermont New Hampshire, Maine, or Indianapolis.
* Dohrn Zachai: Supports female visual artists aged 65 and older.
* Emily Mason & Wolf Kahn Fellowship: Supports exceptional visual artists based on the merit of the work.
* Harpo Foundation Native American Fellowship: Supports exceptional US-based Native American visual artists. This award includes a $500 travel stipend.
* Jon Imber Painting Fellowship: This fellowship honors the memory and work of VSC friend and Visiting Artist Jon Imber and supports painters in residence.
* Les Palettes du Kamer Fellowship: This fellowship supports two Cameroonian artists. By invitation only.
* Marshall Frankel Fellowship: Supports a mixed media visual artist with an emphasis on video in their work for a two-week residency. Preference is giving to female artists of color.
* Marshall and Margherite McComb Foundation Displaced Artists Fellowship: Supports displaced artists. By invitation only.
* PM Lilac Foundation Fellowship: Environmental and Social Justice Fellowship sponsored by the PM Lilac Foundation. This fellowship will provide support to artists whose work explores issues related to our environment and issues that explore social justice.
* Pollock-Krasner Fellowship: Supports visual artists with exceptional talent from the United States.
* Queen’s College CUNY Fellowship: Supports visual artists that attend Queen’s College CUNY in a 3-week residency and includes a $1000 stipend. By invitation only.
* Trout Lily Fellowship: Supports a visual artist with financial need attending a three-week residency. This fellowship includes a $1000 stipend.
* VSC Full and Partial Fellowships: Designated for exceptional visual artists, based on the merit of their work.
* Windgate Charitable Foundation Fellowship: Supports visual artists working in traditional craft media with financial need.

  
**WRITERS**

* ALTA Literary Translator Fellowship: This partnership offers two 2-week residencies on an annual basis to members of The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). One fellowship is offered to a BIPOC translator who identifies as queer/woman/non-binary/LGBTQ+. One fellowship is offered to a mid-career translator, defined as: a translator who has published three (3) or more full-length translations. All fellowships are restricted to ALTA members, whose status must be current. A translator can become an ALTA member at any time prior to applying. Translators working in any genre and from any language into English are eligible.
* Civil Society Institute Fellowship: Supports a US writer of color with demonstrable financial need. The award includes a $500 travel stipend.
* Dartmouth Fellowship: This partnership with the Dartmouth College Department of English and Creative Writing offers two fully funded residencies for Dartmouth College students. The award includes a stipend for travel.
* Harpo Foundation Native American Fellowship: Supports exceptional US-based Native American writers. This award includes a $500 travel stipend.
* Helen Zell Writers’ Program Fellowship: Supports one poet in their first-year currently enrolled in the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program for a four-week residency, June 30 to July 25, 2025.
* International Writing Program Fellowship: In partnership with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, one IWP resident each year is awarded a residency.
* James Merrill Poetry Fellowship: Supports American poets with demonstrable need. Made possible with support from the Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation.
* PM Lilac Foundation Fellowship: Environmental and Social Justice Fellowship sponsored by the PM Lilac Foundation. This fellowship will provide support to writers whose work explores issues related to our environment and issues that explore social justice.
* Poets & Writers Fellowship: Recent participants in Poets & Writers’ publicity incubator, Get the Word Out (GTWO), are invited to apply for a fully funded 3-week residency, November 3 to 21, 2025\. The fellowship will be available to fiction writers and poets in alternate years. The 2025 Poets & Writers Fellowship will be offered to a poet.
* Susanna Colloredo Fellowship: Established in honor of Susanna Colloredo for a writer whose creative work directly engages environmental issues, awareness, and the planet's complex challenges. This is a fellowship for a writer whose creative work directly engages environmental issues.
* Trout Lily Fellowship: Supports a writer with financial need attending a three-week residency. This fellowship includes a $1000 stipend.
* TRP’s X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Fellowship: Supports a three-week residency, in the summer, to a recipient of TRP’s X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Established in 1998, The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize highlights one full-length collection of poetry per year with a $10,000 advance and publication.
* Voices Rising Fellowship: Supports Black American woman fiction writers with demonstrable financial need. Given in honor of women writers of color such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston, whose voices have inspired so many. Each award includes a $2,000 stipend.
* VSC Dramatic Writer Fellowship supported by The John M. Bissell Foundation: This fellowship provides support for the residency of a playwright.
* VSC Full and Partial Fellowships: Designated for exceptional writers, based on the merit of their work.

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