Vermont Here I Come!

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Vermont Studio Center requests a self addressed postcard with your application, so they can confirm that they received it. I was looking for the postcard with the giant potato on a logging truck, or even one with giant logs on a logging truck, but this was the closest thing I could find.

A few weeks back after not hearing anything at all I became fairly pessimistic. I went to their website and found a news link for the full fellowships that they offered from the June 15th round of applications. Scanning through the award winners, I didn’t see my name. I had once heard some basic rule of thumb meant to encourage struggling artists that for every 100 applications there are about 99 rejections.

For the past two days I was working on replacing a stubborn ball joint on my car. I managed to get it fixed this afternoon, and drove down to get the mail as soon as I got it off the jack stands. I was pleasantly surprised to find a thick envelope from Vermont Studio Center. Anyone familiar with rejection letters knows that they come on a single piece of stationary, not in a thick packet. Not sure what to expect, I opened up the letter.

Vermont Studio Center accepted my application, and reserved a place for me in March for 4 weeks. They offered me a $1300 grant and $600 in work exchange, which covers about half of the program costs. With the residency being in March, I’m left with plenty of time to come up with the other half of the costs; as a matter of fact I already have two grants in mind that I am going to apply for.

The only foreseeable conflict is the show I am curating and participating in next February. Fertilizing Utopias will be at the Soil gallery in Seattle during the month of February. I’m anticipating that the show closes on Saturday the 27th, and my residency in Vermont begins on Sunday the 28th.

2010 is lookin’ pretty damn good so far.

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