The Fellows Council is an advisory group that serves as a point of communication between Fellows and the VCCA Board and staff. It also administers the Wachtmeister Award, awarded biennially to an artist whose achievement is widely recognized; the award rotates among a writer, a visual artist, and a composer. The Fellows Council is composed of 10 to 12 Fellows working in a variety of disciplines. Members serve four-year terms.
Current Fellows Council Members
Executive Committee
Cliff Garstang, fiction writer – Staunton, Virginia
Nancy Young Kim, visual artist – Bologna, Italy
Ron MacLean, writer – Boston, Massachusetts
Ann Townsend, writer – Granville, Ohio
Fellows Council Representative to the VCCA Board of Directors
SoHyun Bae, visual artist – New York, New York
Robin Farmer, writer – Hanover County, Virginia
Jody Hobbs Hesler, writer – Charlottesville, Virginia
Martin Hundley, composer – Los Angeles, California
Füsun Köksal, composer – Izmir, Türkiye
Carol Mitchell, writer – Fairfax, Virginia
Ivy Parsons, visual artist – Baltimore, Maryland
Kyle Rivera, composer – New Haven, Connecticut
Joelle Wallach, composer – Bronx, New York
Hananah Zaheer, writer – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Alternate/Reserve Member
Tulu Bayar, visual artist – Lewisburg, Pennsylvania