YBCA Fellows | Application
About YBCA Fellows

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is the Bay Area’s creative home for civic action. We believe that culture precedes change, and it is the responsibility of arts organizations to spur and support societal movement. The YBCA Fellows program brings together creative citizens from across the Bay Area to engage in facilitated inquiry, dialogue and project generation. The cohort will explore timely themes in our society. Together, they’ll deploy art and culture to inspire community transformation and new possibilities in the public imagination. YBCA Fellows will push the boundaries of how creative practice can affect change. YBCA will select 30 individuals to join our next Fellowship cohort. The cohort will last approximately one year, launching in September 2016.

Who We’re Looking For

YBCA is interested in working with changemakers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is not just an opportunity for artists; rather, for all creative, socially inclined individuals. This is a place for makers, thinkers, do-gooders and provocateurs to collaborate and work in partnership with YBCA. The only firm requirement is a passion for building a more hopeful and equitable future. Full-time YBCA staff are not eligible to apply.

Benefits of Fellowship

·       The opportunity to delve deeply into the intersection of cultural and social responsibility.
·       An illuminating program of tools and ideas; driven by YBCA culture makers and thinkers.
·       Up close and personal access to world-renowned artists.
·       The opportunity to connect and collaborate with an expanded network of Bay Area changemakers.
·       A public platform for the presentation of Fellowship projects, as well as production support.
·       $1,000 honorarium.

How it Works

This cohort of Fellows will ask and answer the question: "Why CITIZENSHIP?"

This question was sourced at our annual YBCA 100 convening and will drive our practice for the coming year. During monthly gatherings, YBCA Fellows will bring a variety of experiences and perspectives to the research process. This is an environment in which all participants should be open to, at times, being both influencer and influenced. The program will introduce ideas and tools from artists and thinkers presented by YBCA to help Fellows refine and evolve ideas. Over the course of the year, the group will engage in meaningful conversation and catalyze action by generating projects to be presented publicly at YBCA. The yearlong process culminates with the Fellows presenting projects at YBCA’s Public Square [YBCA’s bi-annual event designed to spur conversation, cultivate empathy and address the key questions of our time].

Honorarium

In exchange for meeting the full criteria for the program, each Fellow will be paid $1,000 for their participation.

How to Apply

Applications for this cohort are being accepted digitally. The application period begins June 28, 2016 and will close at 11:59 pm PST on August 14, 2016.*

*Deadline extended

Selection Process

YBCA Fellows will be notified of their selection for this cohort group on September 12, 2016. Fellows will be chosen by a panel of YBCA staff. We will select Fellows based on their responses to the application and their ability to commit to the entirety of the Fellowship program.

Citizenship Cohort Program Dates

Monday, September 12, 2016 – YBCA Fellows Announced
Saturday, October 15, 2016 – Retreat
Saturday, November 5, 2016 - YBCA 100
Thursday, December 1, 2016 - Working Group Meeting
Thursday, January 12, 2017 – Enrichment and Education Session / Working Group Meeting
Saturday, February 18, 2017 – Fellows visit the YBCA Public Square
Thursday, March 9, 2017 – Working Group Meeting
Thursday, April 6, 2017 – Enrichment and Education Session
Saturday, May 20, 2017– Fellows visit the YBCA Public Square
Thursday, June 8, 2017 – Presentation of Field of Inquiry Project Ideas
Thursday, July 6, 2017 – Working Group Meeting
Thursday, August 10, 2017 – Enrichment and Education Session
Thursday, September 7, 2017 - Working Group Meeting
Saturday, October/ November XX, 2017 - YBCA Fellows Projects at the YBCA Public Square (Date TBD)
Thursday, November 2, 2017 – Closing Debrief

(Dates subject to change)

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This fellows group will ask and answer the question: "Why CITIZENSHIP?" This question was sourced at our annual YBCA 100 convening and will drive our practice for the coming year. In 500 words or less tell us how YOUR work responds to or further complicates this topic. Use this space to answer the following questions, or a related question of your own. What does it mean for you personally to be an engaged citizen? OR What do you think are strategies for breaking through disengagement, distrust or distraction? OR What is the responsibility of the artist as citizen to participate and ask the hard questions? OR What civic actions or grand gestures in our daily lives can lead to systemic change? (In this context, we use the term citizenship openly and invite you to interpret based on your own relationship to the word.)
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