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.
Call for New Fellows Council Members
The VCCA Fellows Council in now accepting self-nominations for new members.
Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2024
New members announced: December 15, 2024
Term to begin: January 1, 2025
Current Fellows Council Members
Executive Committee
SoHyun Bae, visual artist – New York, New York
Cliff Garstang, fiction writer – Staunton, Virginia
Burcu Koray, writer/filmmaker – Istanbul, Türkiye
Fellows Council Representative to the VCCA Board of Directors
SoHyun Bae, visual artist – New York, New York
MK Ahn, writer – Seoul, South Korea
Sonja Curry-Johnson, fiction writer – West Springfield, Virginia
Carla Du Pree, fiction writer – Columbia, Maryland
Martin Hundley, composer – Los Angeles, California
Nancy Young Kim, visual artist – Bologna, Italy
Ron MacLean, writer – Boston, Massachusetts
Ann Townsend, writer – Granville, Ohio
Joelle Wallach, composer – Bronx, New York
Hananah Zaheer, writer – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Alternate/Reserve Member
Timothy Kloth, composer – Williamsburg, Virginia