Funded by the NEA, Collateral Reparations: Military Veterans and the Redemptive Power of Artists Residencies supports fully-funded VCCA residencies for military veteran artists. In addition to the residency, each artist selected will receive a $1,000 honorarium.  This program has now been extended! FINAL deadline for applications is September 15, 2017  for residencies to take place Between February 1, 2018 - May 31, 2018.   The residencies, which are open to military veteran writers, visual artists and composers, will be at VCCA’s beautiful Mt. San Angelo facility nestled in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Spanning two to four weeks, the residencies will allow the artists to spend time focusing on their creative work. A residency at VCCA can be transformative, indeed, life-changing for individual artists, inspiring ideas, instilling confidence, stimulating production. Artists flock to VCCA from all corners of the earth finding the haven where they c

VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts) in Amherst, Virginia, announced that an independent panel in Paris has selected photographer Sabine van den Bergh as the 2017 winner of the Prix Moulin à Nef. Van den Bergh holds an art degree from Arnhem in the Netherlands and has shown her work in exhibitions in Beaumont de Lomange and in Auvillar, France. The Prix Résidence Moulin à Nef provides Van den Bergh with a month-long residency at VCCA in Virginia, where she will provided a private studio, private bedroom, and three prepared meals each day in a community of 25 writers, composers, and visual artists from across the US and around the world.   Van den Bergh plans to be in residence in 2018. As runner-up, visual artist Patrick Polidano of Saint Sulpice et Cameyrac will be awarded a month-long residency at VCCA’s Moulin à Nef Studio Center in Auvillar, France.   His work has been exhibited in Bordeaux, Saint-Maixant, and Dijon, among other locations.   He plans to be in r