Career Development and Exhibition Program for Emerging Artists

Deadline: October 1, 2007

Career Development and Exhibition Program for Emerging Artists
The Center For Emerging Visual Artists
(Philadelphia PA)


The Center for Emerging Visual Artists™ strives to provide the essential support services and programs emerging artists need to build sustainable careers.

Our FREE two-year Career Development Program offers a select group of highly talented artists:

- Two-year fellowship period and lifelong alumni affiliation
- Exhibitions in regional, national, and international venues
- Professional development seminars
- Opportunities to meet patrons, gallerists, and curators
- Assistance with the marketing and sale of artwork
- Individual career counseling sessions
- One-on-one sessions with mentors, chosen from the Board of Artistic Advisors
- Opportunities to gain career experience while giving back to the community
- Alumni Travel Grant Program
- Alumni exhibition series
- Alumni goal-setting group
- Monthly newsletter updating fellows and alumni on regional, national and international opportunities for artists.

Eligibility requirements include:

- Applicants cannot be in school.
- Applicants must live within 100 miles of The Center (Artists in Baltimore, Harrisburg, and the five boroughs of New York City are eligible; Washington, DC artists are not).
- Applicants cannot have a contractual agreement with a commercial gallery.
- Applicants cannot have had a solo show in a commercial gallery.

For more information and an application, visit http://www.cfeva.org or call 215-546-7775 x 12.

Contact:
AMIE POTSIC
Director of the Career Development Program
amie@cfeva.org