(Amherst, VA) – Barbara Weissberger of Pittsburgh, PA, has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). Barbara Weissberger will be among more than 20 other Fellows focusing on their own creative projects at this working retreat for writers, visual artists, and composers.
VCCA is a unique Virginia-based organization of national stature and international impact. One of the largest year-round artist residency programs, VCCA typically hosts over 400 artist-Fellows annually at Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia, and 50 annually at the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. Since its founding in 1971, VCCA has been a wellspring of music, literature, and visual art, providing residencies for artists during the most important yet least supported phase of their work — the creative process.
VCCA’s mission is to provide time and space to national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest work, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential. All VCCA residencies at Mt. San Angelo include a private studio, a private bedroom with en-suite bath, and three prepared meals a day. This distraction-free atmosphere, as well as the energy that results from having some 22 creative people gathered in one place, enables artists to be highly productive.
The artists who come to VCCA, whether emerging or established, are selected through competitive peer review on the basis of the important or innovative work they are doing in their respective fields. In its more-than-fifty-year history, VCCA has hosted over 6,500 writers, visual artists, and composers. VCCA Fellows have received worldwide attention including MacArthur fellowships, Pulitzer Prizes, Guggenheim fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts awards, the National Book Award, Grammy Awards, and Academy Award nominations.
For more information visit vcca.com