The 2012 Photographers' Fellowship Fund deadline will be announced in July 2012.

About the 2011 Photographer's Fellowship Fund:
One $2,500 fellowship will be granted to a regional artist selected by guest juror, Peter Barberie, Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  

There is no fee to enter, and if selected, your award may be used in any way you choose to help advance your creative career.  Fellowship recipients are only required to contribute a piece to CPW’s Permanent Print Collection, which is held on extended loan at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

The 2011 Photographers Fellowship Fund Award will be presented at CPW’s Annual Benefit Gala held in Woodstock on Sunday October 9, 2011.

Who is eligible?
If you reside in one of the following New York State counties: Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Montgomery, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Sullivan, Ulster, Warren, and Washington. Proof of residency is required.  

CPW Board members, staff, or residents who will be students in the fall of 2011 may not apply. Previous recipients may apply again after five years.

What do you need to submit?
To enter, please submit:

• the application form and an image list detailing titiles, medium, year, and size (click here to download the 2011 form)

• an artist statement and bio
  
• proof of residency
  
• a portfolio of ten prints*

We will not accept submissions via email. 

*Print Portfolios are strongly encouraged over the submission of digital files. Please do not submit print portfolios larger than 20x30”. If your work is larger than 20x30 please submit a smaller portfolio along with one sample print and the intended exhibition/display size.

Entries may also be submitted in slide or digital file format. For digital files please submit JPEGS at 300 dpi, 4x5" formatted on a CD-ROM. All work samples must be labeled with your name, phone #, image title, date, size, and media. For CD-ROM submissions, please include an image script identifying the listed information.

Notification will be sent in October. PLEASE NOTE: If you select to mail your entry - include a SASE for return - materials sent without SASE or hand-delivered entries must be picked up no later than October 30, 2011. Work unclaimed after that date will be discarded.   

Are all types of photography welcome?
Artists working in photography, digital imagery, mixed media and or artwork which incorporate photography are welcome to apply. If you mail your entry, you must include a SASE carrier for return. We are not responsible for unlabeled materials. 

Questions?  
Feel free to contact us with additional questions at (845) 679-9957 or at info@cpw.org

Peter Barberie is the Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His publications include Looking at Atget (2005); Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery (co-authored with Katherine Ware, 2006); and “Charles Marville’s Seriality,” in More Than One: Photographs in Sequence, edited by Joel Smith (Princeton University Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2008). Recent PMA exhibitions include Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and ‘70s; Mark Cohen: Strange Evidence; and Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art. He is currently organizing Zoe Strauss: Ten Years, a major mid-career retrospective of Strauss’s photography that will open in January 2012.

New for 2011! Please join us for one of the following artist talks & information sessions on this opportunity:

• Thursday, August 18th, 6pm - 2008 Recipient Phil Underdown at Saratoga Arts Center, located at 320 Broadway, Saratoga, NY.
  
  
• Saturday, August 20th, 6pm - 2009 Recipient Karen Davis at Photo Center of the Capital District, located at 404 River Street, Troy, NY.
  
  
• Thursday, August 25th, 7pm - 2008 Recipient Mark Lyon at Fovea Exhibitions, located at 143 Main Street, Beacon, NY.
  
  *Questions? Call us at (845) 679-9957 or by email at info@cpw.org.
  

We are pleased to offer an archive of past recipients of the Photographers' Fellowship Fund. Over time the entire archive of the Fellowship Fund will be posted on line. 

2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011

To view the complete history of past recipients & Jurors, click here.

If selected you will also be invited to include one of your prints in the CPW Permanent Print Collection at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

To date, CPW has awarded over $65,000 to 83 artists through the Photographers Fellowship Fund.

The 2011 Photographers' Fellowship Fund program has generously been made possible in part by individual donors, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Our deepest thanks and appreciation to them and all individuals who support the arts.