FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
White River Junction, Vermont – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the fifth year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency. Due to the pandemic, CCS was unable to welcome a fellow Cornish CCS Fellow during Fall 2020, so this year we are opening up two month-long fellowships: one in Fall 2021, and one in Spring 2022.
The month-long residency includes a $3000 stipend. The deadline to apply is July 1, 2021 for both residencies. The 2021 Residency dates are Ocober. 15 – November 15 and the 2022 Residency Dates are March 15 – April 15.
Located in Cornish, NH, The Cornish CCS Residency is designed to create a focused and inspiring environment for cartoonists to create exceptional work. Cornish is located 16 miles from The Center for Cartoon Studies (VT), in beautiful rural New Hampshire.
This residency for cartoonists is made possible by former CCS board member, cartoonist Harry Bliss, whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker. “I want to attract the best cartoonists working today and create a residency that is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for storytellers who are pushing the boundaries of the medium,” Bliss said.
“The Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship was a formative and singular artistic experience for which I am incredibly grateful. Focus on comics in the relative solitude of a New England Autumn is a real gift and during my month-long stay I was able to refine my work while also enjoying a restorative quiet.” –Ali Fitzgerald, 2017 Cornish CCS Fellow
For more information about the Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency including how to apply, go to: cartoonstudies.org/cornishfellowship
Read Sarah Lawson’s piece about the Cornish residency in The New Yorker.
Past Cornish CCS Residency Fellows: Tommi Parrish, Cara Bean, Ali Fitzgerald, and Nick Drnaso.
Praise for former Cornish-CCS Fellows:
Tommi Parrish: “The Lie [and How We Told It] takes on material that’s small in scope and thoroughly familiar: emotions we’ve all felt before. On the other hand, it’s got the chutzpah to try and make us experience those feelings in a whole new way.”— NPR Books
Ali Fitzgerald: “Beautiful, sensitive, illuminating, and at times quite funny. … every page is a gem.”—LA Review of Books for Drawn to Berlin
Nick Drnaso: “[Sabrina] is a Midwestern gothic tale for our times… A shattering work of art.” —The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year
About The Center for Cartoon Studies
The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is a nonprofit college and studio. Drawing upon the talent from our faculty, fellows, students, alumni, and visiting artists, CCS has produced a series of multiple Eisner Award-winning graphic biographies about iconic historical figures (Little, Brown) and The Cartoonist Veteran project (funded by the NEA). At CCS, comics are created to help us understand our community, our world, and ourselves. cartoonstudies.org
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