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Processing Foundation Fellowship Season 2024 Sustaining Community: Expansion & Access

This year's 2024 Processing Foundation Fellowship Program will be themed "Sustaining Community: Expansion & Access" and we are inviting projects from artists, educators, researchers, developers, and collectives creating under the following themes:

Fellowship Focus Areas for 2024

💜 Archival Practices: Code & New Media:
Projects aimed at developing tools and platforms for archiving or preserving creative code/the digital.

💜 Open-Source Governance:
Initiatives focused on creating governance models that promote equitable decision-making, inclusive communities, engagement, and sustainable growth in open-source projects.

💜 Disability Justice in Creative Tech:
Tools and projects that advance access as well as promote disability justice within the realm of creative technology

💜Access & AI:
Engaging AI technologies to create accessible solutions and improve inclusivity in digital spaces.

Fellows will receive support in the form of a $10,000 stipend, one-on-one mentorship, workshops, public programs, and community engagement opportunities.

Key Dates:

💜 Applications Open: April 1st
💜 Fellowship Info Session #1: April 5th
💜 Fellowship Info Session #2: April 20th
💜 Applications Close: May 2nd
💜 Semi-Finalist Interviews: Week of May 15th
💜 Fellowship Start Date: June 15th
💜 Fellowship End Date: October 31st

*All dates in EST

The 2024 fellowship is a unique opportunity for artists, researchers, educators, and developers to contribute to a vibrant ecosystem of creative coding and digital art. Fellows will embark on a three-month journey, beginning on June 15th and concluding on October 31st, to develop projects that align with this year's focus areas. Alongside a stipend of $10,000, fellows will receive mentorship, and various workshops as well as community engagement opportunities. They will engage in regular cohort meetings bi monthly, as well as town hall forums with our new partner program pr05 = “Processing Foundation Software Development Grant”; and opportunities to present their finished projects publicly.

Processing Foundation Software Development Grants

COMING SOON!

Launching later this Spring, the Processing Foundation Software Development Grant (pr05) is a new Processing Foundation initiative designed to support the professional growth of emerging software developers through hands-on involvement in open-source software. Participants will receive grants ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 to work on specific projects within the Processing and p5.js ecosystems.

The timeline of this new program will overlap with the fellowships and participants from both cohorts will join in monthly town hall forums to explore the ethical and operational frameworks surrounding open-source and software development.

Stay tuned for more details on how to apply closer to the launch date.

The Processing Foundation Fellowships support artists, coders, and collectives in visionary projects that conceive a new direction for what Processing as a software and a community can do. Fellowships are an integral part of the Processing Foundation’s work toward developing tools of empowerment and access at the convergence of art and technology. Fellowships emphasize projects that expand Processing and its affiliated projects, as well as the evolution of a Fellow’s practice. Work done by Fellows is supported through funding and mentorship from The Processing Foundation. Scroll to the bottom of the page for all past Fellows.

At the Processing Foundation Medium, you can read a series of articles on the Fellows, in their own words. More information about the origins and development of the Fellowship program can be found here.

About us

Processing Foundation’s mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields — and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities.

Processing Foundation is committed to diversity in its programming and in nurturing a community culture and environment that is reflective of the diversity of the US as well as the global community networks we operate within. We aspire to create a climate where diversity is an asset for creativity and innovation. We strongly encourage applicants representing a range of differences that include — but are not limited to — age, national origin, ethnicity, race, religion, ability, sexual orientation, gender and sexual identity. Processing will consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and New York City Fair Chance Act.

Further questions?

Contact foundation@processing.org.

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

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Fellowships 2022

aarón montoya-moraga, Atilio Barreda II, Bhavik Singh (Teaching Fellow), coralys carter, Gregg Mudhuwiwa (Teaching Fellow), Joslenne Peña (Teaching Fellow), Minne Atairu (Teaching Fellow), Morgan P. Vickers, Rolando Vargas, Sierra Gilliam (Teaching Fellow), Yadira Sánchez in collectivity with David Marcelino Cayetano, Yen Ching Lu and Munus Shih.

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Fellowships 2021

Adekemi Sijuwade-Ukadike (Teaching Fellow), Computational Mama, Angi Chau (Teaching Fellow), Chia Amisola, Cy X, Felipe Santos Gomes, Julia Brasil, Katherine Finn Zander, Marcela Mancino, Indigemoji, Omar Verduga, Shawn Patrick Higgins (Teaching Fellow), and Ted Davis (Teaching Fellow)

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Fellowships 2020

ml5.js Fellows: Achim Koh, Emily Martinez, Bomani Oseni McClendon, Andreas Refsgaard; 2020 Fellows: Aren Davey, Abdellah Iraamane, Michael O’Connell, George Profenza, Kalila Shapiro, and Inhwa Yeom & Seonghyeon Kim

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Fellowships 2019

Stalgia Grigg and Evelyn Masso (p5.js Fellows); Layla Quinones and Emily Fields (Teaching Fellows); Prince Steven Annor; Manaswini Das, Nancy Chauhan, and Shaharyar Shamshi; Doeke Wartena; Matilda Wysocki; and Qianqian Ye.

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Fellowships 2018

Vijith Assar, George Boateng, Mathura Govindarajan and Luis Morales-Navarro, Saber Khan, Jose Orea (Teaching Fellow), Courtney Morgan (Teaching Fellow), Kenneth Lim, Ari Melenciano, Kaitlyn M. O’Bryan, Kate Lockwood, and Thomas J. Reinartz Jr., Kirit Tanna

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Fellowships 2017

Cassie Tarakajian, Andrew Nicolaou, DIY Girls, Gottfried Haider, Niklas Peters, Saskia Freeke, Susan Evans

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Fellowships 2016

Allison Parrish, Claire Kearney-Volpe, The Digital Citizens Lab, Jessica Klein and Atul Varma, Tega Brain and Luisa Pereira

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Fellowships 2013

Wilm Thoben, Lauren McCarthy, Greg Borenstein

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The Processing Foundation Fellowship Program is made possible by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts.