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I am very excited to be a 2025 VCCA Fellow! Dreams do come true. 🤸🏼🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏻‍♂️🤸🏼🤸🏿‍♀️ #VCCAFellows
July 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
🧡 Introducing the 2025 Cows in Residence! #MtSanAngelo #VCCAFellows
May 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
VCCA is pleased to announce that fiction writer ✨ Christopher Gonzalez ✨ has been named the 2025 recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship! vcca.com/christopher-gonzalez 🧡 @livesinpages.bsky.social #VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #writingresidency
Christopher Gonzalez Named 2025 Recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship
This annual fellowship supports the residency of an LGBTQ+ writer working in any genre at VCCA’s artist retreat in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Pool season is coming to Mt. San Angelo! VCCA Executive Dog Asta tests the waters.

#VCCAFellows #artistresidency #artistcommunity #MtSanAngelo
April 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Happy snow day from Mt. San Angelo! Though you can tell by the footprints that a little snow can't keep #VCCAFellows from their studios. ❄️ ✍️ 🎨 🎼 🧡 #MtSanAngelo #VCCA #artistresidency #snowday

📷: Paige Critcher
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
The VCCA Fellows Council is hosting a free online event to answer your questions about applying to an artist residency! #VCCAFellows #artistresidency

RSVP and join this Friday, December 6, at noon Eastern: www.eventbrite.com/e/december-2...
Artist Residency Application Primer on Zoom December 6 at 12 PM EST - Brought to you by the VCCA Fellows Council
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
elizabethniarchosneukirch.com
New book loading... 📖✨️ Beyond excited to be awarded a residency fellowship from @the-vcca.bsky.social to work on my second novel! I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity and support--especially given the deeply personal origin of my new project. #VCCAFellows #writinglife #artistresidency
Overhead image of the barn studios and silos at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Text says "Writer Going to VCCA!"
July 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
"VCCA was a dream I didn’t know I was supposed to have." — Carol Barber 📷: Studio VA7 at VCCA, 2026 #VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #artistcommunity #artistresidency
April 21, 2026 at 8:20 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Early drafts of new birds and new books are taking form around the writing studios at VCCA's Studio Barn. 🧡 #MtSanAngelo #writingresidency #VCCAFellows
June 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
"Naming distractions is easy, but the more useful activity is naming and claiming practices that feed our creative selves regardless of where and when we are." Sheree L. Greer 🧡 #vccafellows www.shereelgreer.com/blog/toclaim
To Name, To Claim — Sheree L. Greer
It’s easy, when away at a residency, to focus on all the ways that the residency is not your real life, the sentiment being that you are distraction-free, away from all the things that stop or stifl...
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December 10, 2024 at 8:48 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Meet the #VCCAFellows who will be sharing their work as part of our VCCA Connects event at the Daura Museum of Art at the University of Lynchburg! We hope to see you Wednesday, November 19, from 7 to 8 p.m.! This event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served. vcca.com/connects
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Spring has arrived early in Auvillar, France, where VCCA staff at le Moulin à Nef have been hard at work preparing to open the 2025 residency season next week! They're looking forward to welcoming the first four #VCCAFellows and the first Resident Fellow of the year on Monday.
March 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
2024 brought 400+ #VCCAFellows to Virginia and 40+ to France! 🎨 🎼 ✍️ 💫 Help us keep creating space for artists in 2025. Consider a year-end gift to VCCA's Annual Fund: vcca.com/annual-fund

Wishing you a joyous New Year from all of us at Mt. San Angelo and le Moulin à Nef! 🌟
December 31, 2024 at 2:34 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Today marks the start of our Winter 2025 residency period at Mt. San Angelo! We're thrilled to welcome the first #VCCAFellows of the year, and we wish safe travels to each writer, visual artist, and composer headed our way this season. ❄️ ✨
January 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Thanks so much to the Daura Museum of Art for partnering with us to host a wonderful VCCA Connects event last night! We appreciate everyone who came out to experience the artistic work of our featured #VCCAFellows — Wo Chan, Roxanne Everett, Ana Gamboa, and Yeji Kim. 📷: Paige Critcher
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
phatthedd.bsky.social
I am overwhelmed & honored to announce that I have been selected to participate in a @the-vcca.bsky.social writing residency.

Slowly but surely, my dreams are coming true. Thank you VCCA family for this opportunity. I hope I can be a credit to this incredible institution for artists.

#VCCAFellows
May 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Thank you to Virginia Public Radio’s Sandy Hausman for visiting VCCA! Listen to the birdsong, music, and conversations she captured in this piece for WVTF and Radio IQ: www.wvtf.org/news/2025-03... #VCCAFellows
Artists find inspiration at Virginia retreat
Virginia is home to one of the nation’s oldest and largest residency programs for artists, hosting more than 400 painters and sculptors, writers and composers each year. Ten years ago, its future was ...
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March 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
To our local friends and #VCCAFellows: If you're looking for a fun outdoor activity next Saturday, April 12, we'd love to welcome you for Spring Volunteer Day at VCCA in Amherst, Virginia!

Please sign up by Tuesday, April 8: vcca.typeform.com/volunteer-day
Volunteer Day at VCCA
Sign up to join VCCA for light yard work and free lunch at Mt. San Angelo.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
A hearty congrats to the #VCCAFellows appointed to the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows 🥳 #guggfellows2025

🧡 Dan Albergotti
🧡 Mara Mathilda Helmuth
🧡 Kathleen McShane
🧡 Mihaela Diana Moscaliuc
🧡 Tania Rachel James
🧡 Kristen Radtke
🧡 Rachel Shteir
🧡 Brandon D. Som

www.gf.org/stories/anno...
Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
www.gf.org
April 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
"My first residency at VCCA gave me the confidence to keep writing. My second residency at VCCA gave me the confidence to call myself an artist." — William Torrey

#VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #artistcommunity #writingresidency
May 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Attention #VCCAFellows! Writers, visual artists, and composers who have been in residence at VCCA may apply for our International Exchange Programs. Applications for 2027 opportunities in Germany and Austria are due September 15, 2026. 🇩🇪 🇦🇹
https://www.vcca.com/apply/international-exchange/
July 31, 2026 at 8:18 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
We're thrilled to have composer 🎺 Michael R. Dudley Jr. 🎺 in residence as the latest recipient of VCCA’s Anne Spencer Fellowship!! Join us at the historic Anne Spencer House at 2 p.m. this Friday, May 15, to learn about their work: https://mailchi.mp/vcca/anne-spencer-event #VCCAFellows
May 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
We’re delighted to announce that Douglas Knehans has won VCCA’s 2025 Wachtmeister Award for Music Composition! www.vcca.com/douglas-kneh... #VCCAFellows
Composer Douglas Knehans Receives 2025 Wachtmeister Award
This 2025 Wachtmeister Award was open to established composers who have made substantial achievements over at least 15 years.
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March 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Our inaugural VCCA Connects event is tonight at Second Stage Amherst! We hope to see you there. 🧡
www.vcca.com/connects

#VCCAFellows #VCCAConnects #AmherstVA
VCCA Connects | VCCA
VCCA Connects: Bringing Art to the Community The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is excited to launch a […]
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April 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
the-vcca.bsky.social
Happy deadline day! Writers, visual artists, and composers hoping for an artist residency at VCCA in Spring 2026 (❄️ January thru April 🌸) should apply before ✨ midnight ✨ tonight.

www.vcca.com/apply/reside...

#MtSanAngelo #VCCAFellows #artistresidency #artistcommunity
Residencies at Mt. San Angelo | VCCA
VCCA’s Mt. San Angelo location in Amherst, Virginia, typically hosts 360 writers, visual artists, and composers each year for residencies of up to two months.
www.vcca.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM