Eligibility

Ideal Community Action Fellow candidates are self-directed, community-centered artists with interest or experience working in rural places. You work across or between mediums, using creative practice to reflect, respond, imagine, critique—or something else entirely. You engage with history, grapple with the present, or address the future. You enter new communities with sensitivity and create work that builds upon values of equity, inclusion, and co-creation.

Number of Participants

Blue Sky Center will host three (3) Community Action Fellows between January–May 2023. Editable to the timelines of the community and selected artists, the proposed dates are: ➔ Fellowship 1: January 22nd–February 12th ➔ Fellowship 2: March 12th–April 2nd ➔ Fellowship 3: April 23rd–May 14th

Deadline

November 14, 2022 07:59 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

December 30, 2022 08:00 UTC

Duration

January 22, 2023 - May 14, 2023

Funding

• $400.00 travel budget
• $1,850.00 stipend (one-time)

Facilities

Conference Rooms, Co-Working, Desk Space, Individual Studio

Housing

Kitchen, Live/Work, Private Room, Shared Bathroom

Public Programs

Community Engagement , Exhibition, Performances, Schools, Visiting Professionals, Workshops

Disciplines

Acting, Activists, Animation, Architecture, Book Arts, Cartoonist, Choreography, Cinematography, Conceptual Art, Culinary, Dance, Design, Drawing, Fiber Arts, Fiction, Film, Illustration, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Intervention, Jewelry, Land Art, Moving Image, Multimedia, Music, Music Composition, Nonfiction, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Puppeteers, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Singing, Social Practice, Sound Art, Textile, Theatre, Video Art, Visual Arts

Program Description

The Community Action Fellowship is an opportunity for an artist of any discipline, with new or established social practice, to support creative community development in the Cuyama Valley. This work will be site-responsive, with an on-site proposal process guided by our staff and informed by the Fellow’s experiences listening and learning from Cuyama Valley communities. Over the course of three weeks, Blue Sky Center’s Community Action Fellow will develop an independent creative project that thoughtfully engages and mentors local residents. Additionally, the Fellow’s project will also address one or more community priorities identified in the Community Action Plan. These priorities include: townsites beautification and wayfinding, food action network, economic opportunity development and job creation, school system support, water/sewer infrastructure improvement, rural broadband, and housing stock improvement through repairs and renovations.