12th Annual NCECA Multicultural Fellowships (Due Sept. 17)
12th Annual NCECA Multicultural Fellowships
Deadline: September 17th, 2025
Up to 20 fellowships will be awarded to first-time conference participants whose cultural identities have been historically underrepresented in NCECA and the field at large. This opportunity supports travel and other expenses related to participation in the upcoming annual NCECA conference.
ABOUT THE NCECA MULTICULTURAL FELLOWSHIP NCECA is pleased to announce the 12th annual NCECA Multicultural Fellowships. The purpose of this fellowship is to increase participation in the annual conference by historically underrepresented cultural backgrounds and to foster and catalyze participants’ capacities to expand awareness and deepen knowledge of the ceramic arts through learning, intellectual inquiry, and creative research.
Following Theaster Gates’s challenge to cultivate greater diversity in the field of ceramic art through simple, direct, and meaningful gestures of welcome, in 2015 NCECA launched the Multicultural Fellowship program with the goal of increasing participation in the annual conference by historically underrepresented cultural backgrounds. NCECA awarded six (6) fellowships in its inaugural year, with an increasing number awarded each year. This year NCECA is excited to award up to twenty (20) fellowships.
Fellowship recipients will be eligible to receive up to $850 in support, which can be used towards travel, lodging, and meal expenses. NCECA will provide conference registration and a one-year membership as part of the fellowship award.
The Fellowship recipients will be notified of the selection in December 2025 and publicly announced in early 2026 through NCECA E-News, social media platforms, and conference publications.
Current NCECA members are strongly encouraged to issue personal invitations to friends and contacts who they believe will provide value to the field at large, NCECA, the cohort collectively, and themselves. Up to twenty (20) NCECA Multicultural Fellowships will be awarded for participation in Volumes, the 60th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, hosted in Detroit, Michigan, March 25–28, 2026.