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Applications are currently being accepted for the Viet Voices AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
The AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship is a six‑month program supporting early‑career Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian artists in the visual arts. Fellows receive mentorship, professional development workshops, and opportunities to exhibit their work in the San Diego–Tijuana Border Lands. Applicants must be 18 or older, within 10 years of creative practice, and not currently enrolled in a degree program.
Exhibition Opportunity: Showcase your work in a group exhibition in San Diego-Tijuana Border Lands with support in developing and documenting your work.
Mentorship: Ongoing mentorship from AAPI artists and arts professionals, including monthly, one-on-one studio visits, and co-hort salon-style presentations.
Professional Development: Opportunities to participate in workshops/ceremonies, artist talks, and networking events with fellow artists, curators, and art professionals.
Financial Support: A stipend to support the production of new work, materials, transportation, and/or living expenses for the fellowship period. Each fellow will receive a honorarium of $4,000 disbursed monthly alongside a $500 production stipend.
Community Engagement: Connect with a network of diasporic artists and art spaces, queering the boundaries and intersections of art in Kumeyaay Land.
18 years of age or older from any city.
Emerging and early career artists of Asian American, Pacific Islander, and/or Native Hawaiian descent. LGBTQ2S+ identifying folks are strongly encouraged to apply. Artists that are in the early stages of their creative development, not more than 10 years of generative experience (not including any exhibition opportunities provided through a school or college program).
Open to visual art mediums, including but not limited to installation, performance, new media (sound/video/technology), painting, sculpture, photography, and inter/anti-disciplinary work. The fellowship is not intended for commercial artists, musicians, theatre artists, or others whose work is generally not presented in a visual art context.
Fellows are required to attend all monthly scheduled Fellowship development sessions and a weeklong exhibition process in San Diego, CA.
Not participating in a comparable development, fellowship, or residency program at the time of the program.
Committed to addressing issues of diaspora, gender, sexuality, environment, social health, and/or social justice through their artistic practice.
Not a student or enrolled in any degree seeking program at the time of the program .
Not currently a member, employee, board member of Viet Voices or contracted/empoyed by Viet Voices in the last three years.
Artist Bio + Statement (max 500 words): Describe your artistic practice, your goals for the fellowship, and why you are applying.
Portfolio: A selection of 5 images or video clips of recent work through file upload or PDF upload. Please name each file “firstname-lastname-title-year”, if not organizing into a PDF format. Performance video URL(s) can be sent through a PDF link or hyperlinked within the portfolio PDF (Youtube and Vimeo preferred with required passwords).
Artist CV
Proposed Project (max 1000 words): What is the specific project you plan to develop, research, and execute during the fellowship and how does it align with socially engaging audiences within the Kumeyaay region (San Diego)?
