Fellowships
Over a Decade of Impact
Since 2013, the Processing Foundation Fellowship has been an incubator for imagining a just and equitable relationship with technology.
Our multidisciplinary program supports artists, coders, and educators to create technical and socially engaged projects. The scope of our work reflects the diversity of our community, building on a broad range of practices, including tool-making, participatory design, and critical pedagogy.
Our organization is invested in both rapid and long-term impacts. Projects such as p5.js and the p5.js Editor were conceived by fellows a decade ago and currently serve millions around the globe.
As a software nonprofit centering on access and empowerment, We believe in technological innovation powered by community participation. Visit our Medium to learn more about Processing Foundation Fellows, in their own words.
🚧 2026 Announcement: Fellowship Program Strategic Redesign 🚧
There will be no Processing Foundation Fellowship in 2026. We are undertaking a strategic redesign of the Fellowship to deepen its impact and better support artists, communities, and the long-term sustainability of open-source creative tools. We are investigating what it means to move beyond individualism to a collective definition of liberation.
Over the coming months we’ll be listening to past fellows, community members, contributors, and collaborators as we imagine what this next version of the Fellowship can become. Thank you to everyone who has helped shape the program so far.
We plan to have more information about the 2027 Fellowship in October 2026.
We are building the next phase of the Processing Foundation Fellowship in collaboration with funders, cultural institutions, and community organizations. We are actively seeking partners and funders to support the next phase of the Fellowship as we relaunch in October 2026.
If you are interested in supporting this work, we’d love to connect.
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Previous Fellowship Projects
Fellowships 2025
Kate Sicchio, Daniel Corbani, Maryam Kazeem and Jubril Olambiwonnu, Leonardo Aranda, elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ, Payton Croskey, Jiwon Ham, and Ana María Cárdenas Gasca
Fellowships 2024
Ahnjili ZhuParris with Dan Xu, Colette Aliman and Alyssa Gersony, Luís dos Santos Miguel, Dorothy Howard and David Isaac Hecht, Anh (Autumn) Pham, Roopa Vasudevan, Amad Ansari, Buffy Sierra, and Roxanne Harris
Fellowships 2023
Zainab Aliyu, Joanne Amarisa with Mei Leong, Septia Nurmala, Echa Amalia, Arshi Saleh, and Larissa Serafina, Bobby Joe Smith III and Nat Decker, Kendra Krueger and Zahra Hassan, Nhan Phan, Kelly Chen and Olivia McKayla Ross, Liam Baum, and Stephanie T. Jones
Fellowships 2022
aarón montoya-moraga, Atilio Barreda II, Bhavik Singh, coralys carter, David Marcelino Cayetano and Yadira Sánchez, Gregg Mudhuwiwa, Joslenne Peña, Minne Atairu, Morgan P. Vickers, Munus Shih and Yen Ching Lu, Rolando Vargas, Sierra Gilliam.
Fellowships 2021
Adekemi Sijuwade-Ukadike, Angi Chau, Chia Amisola, Computational Mama, Cy X, Felipe Santos Gomes, Julia Brasil, Katherine Finn Zander, Marcela Mancino, Indigemoji, Omar Verduga, Shawn Patrick Higgins, Ted Davis.
Fellowships 2020
Abdellah Iraamane, Achim Koh, Andreas Refsgaard, Aren Davey, Bomani Oseni McClendon, Emily Martinez, George Profenza, Inhwa Yeom and Seonghyeon Kim, Kalila Shapiro, Michael O’Connell.
Fellowships 2019
Doeke Wartena, Emily Fields, Evelyn Masso and Stalgia Grigg, Layla Quinones, Manaswini Das, Nancy Chauhan, and Shaharyar Shamshi, Matilda Wysocki, Prince Steven Annor, Qianqian Ye.
Fellowships 2018
Ari Melenciano, Courtney Morgan, George Boateng, Jose Orea, Kaitlyn M. O’Bryan, Kate Lockwood, and Thomas J. Reinartz Jr., Kenneth Lim, Kirit Tanna, Luis Morales-Navarro and Mathura Govindarajan, Saber Khan, Vijith Assar
Fellowships 2017
Andrew Nicolaou, Cassie Tarakajian, DIY Girls, Gottfried Haider, Niklas Peters, Saskia Freeke, Susan Evans
Fellowships 2016
Allison Parrish, Atul Varma and Jessica Klein, Claire Kearney-Volpe, The Digital Citizens Lab, Luisa Pereira and Tega Brain
Fellowships 2013
Greg Borenstein, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Wilm Thoben