Who can apply?
Professors of art in member colleges and universities of the CCCU and the Lilly Fellows National Network who are also working artists in a variety of media, such as painters, sculptors, weavers, potters, photographers, and other modes of visual artistry.
What qualities do we want to see in applicants?
- Openness to new thinking, to being challenged, and to gaining new perspectives.
- A clear sense of what one hopes to gain from a cross-cultural encounter.
- Commitment to collaboration as a mode of creative work.
- Influence and credibility within the artistic community or at least the promise of becoming influential.
- Verbal communication skills, especially regarding art.
- Commitment to follow-up work: via teaching, exhibits and other communications.
- Plans by one's home college or university to support the project’s follow-up work.
- One or two gifted writers on the arts to publish a creative essay on this project.
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Date
May 31–June 15, 2013
Seminar Location
Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa
Seminar Leaders
Artistic Director
Rachel Smith
Taylor University
South African Artistic Coordinator
Charles Nkomo of Johannesburg
Group visits and dynamics
Robert and Alice Evans Plowshares Institute
Administrative director
Joel Carpenter
Calvin College
Application deadline
January 15, 2013
(North American candidates)
January 31, 2013 (Southern African candidates)
Contact
Donna Romanowski
drom@calvin.edu
Organized by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity with the endorsement of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and The Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts
With major support from
Walter and Darlene Hansen
The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
John and Mary Loeks
The Joan L. and Robert C. Gilkison Family Foundation
The Lilly Fellows Program
in Humanities and the Arts
