"VCCA is amazing. My studio was perfect; everything was provided that I could possibly want. I completed an insane amount of work. Nice people, beautiful grounds, good food. I found this experience too good to be true and I am infinitely grateful for the opportunity to work at such a fantastic place." —Laurel Hausler, visual artist, Beaufort, SC

Admission to VCCA is highly selective, based on a review of applications by panels of professional artists. There are separate panels for each category (poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights, performance, film and video artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, composers and cross-disciplinary artists) with over 50 panelists serving at any one time. These panelists undergo periodic review to ensure that selection to VCCA is being made by the highest caliber artists in each discipline. Panelists are also rotated regularly so that particular styles or tastes are not continuously represented. The basis for admission by an application is professional achievement or promise of achievement.

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VCCA provides room, board and individual studios where Fellows work without distraction for residencies ranging from two weeks to two months. During these periods, Fellows are able to create on a deeper level, producing not only far more, but often much better work than is possible under the normal day-to-day conditions of their lives.

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