Presented in partnership with Boston Art Review, the 2026 Emerging Art Writing Fellowship supports three individuals based in Boston ages eighteen through twenty-one who are interested in expanding their knowledge of the city's contemporary art community through hands-on experience writing reviews, artist interviews, and exhibition texts while deepening their understanding of the operations behind a commercial gallery. This fellowship is not a traditional internship, but rather a curriculum-based program with learning at the center.
This program will run across two semesters (spring and fall 2026), with a break over the summer. The first half of the program (February-May) will be led by Boston Art Review, where fellows will partake in weekly workshops, field trips, and studio visits to cultivate their writing practices and relationships within Boston's art community. Fellows will be expected to pitch, develop, and complete written pieces that will be published with Boston Art Review.
For the second half of the program (September-November), fellows will participate in a two-month paid, part-time internship at Praise Shadows Art Gallery. Here, they will learn the inner workings of a contemporary art gallery, including installation, marketing, writing, and engaging with the general public about the work on view.
In addition to workshops with local writers and arts leaders, past fellows have participated in sessions with editors from Triple Canopy and Book Art Review (part of Center for Book Arts) and met with an executive at Higher Ground (the Obamas' media company). They also heard from Dr. Jovonna Jones, Devin Gordon, Nakia Hill, Julian Sorapuru, and visited exhibitions at the ICA (with Tessa Bachi Haas, MFA (with Kendall DeBoer, Boston Center for the Arts (with Julia Szejnblum) and numerous local university art galleries.
The deadline to apply is January 21, 2025 at 11:59pm. Interviews will be held virtually between February 2 and 5, 2025. Fellows will be notified on February 6. The program will begin the week of February 9, 2025.
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