Princeton Arts Fellowships are awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend time teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community. 

Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, the expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year. 

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025-27 academic years.

Eligibility: 

Open to early-career artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise. 
One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. 
Past recipients of the Hodder Fellowship and individuals who have had a sustained and continuous relationship with Princeton are not eligible to apply.
Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. 
Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply.

Applicants can only apply for the Princeton Arts Fellowship twice in a lifetime.

Deadline: The application is submitted online. The deadline is September 10, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (ET)

Application Submission: Through the online portal, Princeton Arts Fellowship applicants should include a curriculum vitae; contact information for three references (should the search committee choose to contact references, please do not request letters or have letters sent in advance of a request from the search committee); work samples (i.e., a writing sample, images of your work, video links to performances, etc.); and a 750-word proposal that includes how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship to develop your work, how you would contribute to Princeton’s arts community through teaching and/or production, and how you have encouraged diversity and inclusion and furthered accessibility in your artistic practice, teaching, and/or research.

Princeton Arts Fellowships are funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund.