VCCA
@the-vcca.bsky.social
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space to writers, visual artists, and composers at artist residency programs in Virginia and France. #VCCAFellows
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Another #GivingTuesday is right around the corner! This December 2, please consider supporting VCCA and our ever-expanding community of #VCCAFellows with a gift to the Greater Opportunity Fund. 🧡 www.vcca.com/giving-tuesd...
Commit to Greater Opportunity This GivingTuesday
This day of global giving celebrates the power of human connection. It's the perfect time to show your love for VCCA and our ever-expanding community of artists.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Another #GivingTuesday is right around the corner! This December 2, please consider supporting VCCA and our ever-expanding community of #VCCAFellows with a gift to the Greater Opportunity Fund. 🧡 www.vcca.com/giving-tuesd...
Thanks so much to the Daura Museum of Art for partnering with us to host a wonderful VCCA Connects event last night! We appreciate everyone who came out to experience the artistic work of our featured #VCCAFellows — Wo Chan, Roxanne Everett, Ana Gamboa, and Yeji Kim. 📷: Paige Critcher
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Thanks so much to the Daura Museum of Art for partnering with us to host a wonderful VCCA Connects event last night! We appreciate everyone who came out to experience the artistic work of our featured #VCCAFellows — Wo Chan, Roxanne Everett, Ana Gamboa, and Yeji Kim. 📷: Paige Critcher
Tonight at the Daura Museum of Art in Lynchburg! We're excited to bring another VCCA Connects event to the community. Free and open to all. www.lynchburg.edu/vcca-connect...
‘VCCA Connects’ event to be held at Daura Museum of Art
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts will hold an event at the University of Lynchburg’s Daura Museum of Art on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 7-8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The VCC...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Tonight at the Daura Museum of Art in Lynchburg! We're excited to bring another VCCA Connects event to the community. Free and open to all. www.lynchburg.edu/vcca-connect...
Meet the #VCCAFellows who will be sharing their work as part of our VCCA Connects event at the Daura Museum of Art at the University of Lynchburg! We hope to see you Wednesday, November 19, from 7 to 8 p.m.! This event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served. vcca.com/connects
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Meet the #VCCAFellows who will be sharing their work as part of our VCCA Connects event at the Daura Museum of Art at the University of Lynchburg! We hope to see you Wednesday, November 19, from 7 to 8 p.m.! This event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served. vcca.com/connects
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Back to the real world after a productive 3 weeks at a beautiful residency @the-vcca.bsky.social Hope to be back soon!
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Back to the real world after a productive 3 weeks at a beautiful residency @the-vcca.bsky.social Hope to be back soon!
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VOTE! Then MOOOOOO. @the-vcca.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
VOTE! Then MOOOOOO. @the-vcca.bsky.social
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Wonderful reading Thursday night @the-vcca.bsky.social with author Heather Thompson-Brenner. Read the title essay from the book I’m working on that was just published in the Bellevue Literary Review #49 Issue. @triohousepress.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Wonderful reading Thursday night @the-vcca.bsky.social with author Heather Thompson-Brenner. Read the title essay from the book I’m working on that was just published in the Bellevue Literary Review #49 Issue. @triohousepress.org
Save the Date ✨ April 25, 2026 ✨Spring Soirée
VCCA’s biggest annual fundraising event will take place Saturday, April 25, 2026! Save the date, and make a plan to join us at Mt. San Angelo for a festive evening in the VCCA Hay Barn this spring. vcca.com/gala
VCCA’s biggest annual fundraising event will take place Saturday, April 25, 2026! Save the date, and make a plan to join us at Mt. San Angelo for a festive evening in the VCCA Hay Barn this spring. vcca.com/gala
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Save the Date ✨ April 25, 2026 ✨Spring Soirée
VCCA’s biggest annual fundraising event will take place Saturday, April 25, 2026! Save the date, and make a plan to join us at Mt. San Angelo for a festive evening in the VCCA Hay Barn this spring. vcca.com/gala
VCCA’s biggest annual fundraising event will take place Saturday, April 25, 2026! Save the date, and make a plan to join us at Mt. San Angelo for a festive evening in the VCCA Hay Barn this spring. vcca.com/gala
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Happy Halloween! @the-vcca.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Happy Halloween! @the-vcca.bsky.social
🧡🖤 Courtesy of the #MtSanAngelo Kitchen Witches 🧡🖤
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🧡🖤 Courtesy of the #MtSanAngelo Kitchen Witches 🧡🖤
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Drove into @the-vcca.bsky.social to begin a 3 week residency and was greeting by another Fellow here. 😂So good to be back!
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Drove into @the-vcca.bsky.social to begin a 3 week residency and was greeting by another Fellow here. 😂So good to be back!
VCCA is pleased to announce that fiction writer ✨ Christopher Gonzalez ✨ has been named the 2025 recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship! vcca.com/christopher-gonzalez 🧡 @livesinpages.bsky.social #VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #writingresidency
Christopher Gonzalez Named 2025 Recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship
This annual fellowship supports the residency of an LGBTQ+ writer working in any genre at VCCA’s artist retreat in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
VCCA is pleased to announce that fiction writer ✨ Christopher Gonzalez ✨ has been named the 2025 recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship! vcca.com/christopher-gonzalez 🧡 @livesinpages.bsky.social #VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #writingresidency
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Excited and humbled to be heading to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts next week for a two-week residency, made super possible by the generous support of the Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship!!!
Christopher Gonzalez Named 2025 Recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship
This annual fellowship supports the residency of an LGBTQ+ writer working in any genre at VCCA’s artist retreat in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited and humbled to be heading to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts next week for a two-week residency, made super possible by the generous support of the Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship!!!
We're looking forward to welcoming visitors to #MtSanAngelo for Fall Open Studios this weekend! Stop by VCCA between 4 and 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 26, to step inside the studios of eight #VCCAFellows: www.vcca.com/news-events/...
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We're looking forward to welcoming visitors to #MtSanAngelo for Fall Open Studios this weekend! Stop by VCCA between 4 and 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 26, to step inside the studios of eight #VCCAFellows: www.vcca.com/news-events/...
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Home from a magical and inspiring two week residency at VCCA. I met so many wonderful artists and came away with a full heart, new friends, and new poems.Thank you
@the-vcca.bsky.social !
#vccafellow
#mtsanangelo
#grateful
@the-vcca.bsky.social !
#vccafellow
#mtsanangelo
#grateful
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Home from a magical and inspiring two week residency at VCCA. I met so many wonderful artists and came away with a full heart, new friends, and new poems.Thank you
@the-vcca.bsky.social !
#vccafellow
#mtsanangelo
#grateful
@the-vcca.bsky.social !
#vccafellow
#mtsanangelo
#grateful
Fall Volunteer Day is this Saturday, October 25, 2025!
☕ 🍂 🥪
Come out from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to enjoy coffee on the patio and some light autumnal yard work in our gardens. Lunch will be provided for folks who sign up today: vcca.typeform.com/volunteer-day
☕ 🍂 🥪
Come out from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to enjoy coffee on the patio and some light autumnal yard work in our gardens. Lunch will be provided for folks who sign up today: vcca.typeform.com/volunteer-day
Volunteer Day at VCCA
Sign up to join VCCA for light yard work and free lunch at Mt. San Angelo.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Fall Volunteer Day is this Saturday, October 25, 2025!
☕ 🍂 🥪
Come out from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to enjoy coffee on the patio and some light autumnal yard work in our gardens. Lunch will be provided for folks who sign up today: vcca.typeform.com/volunteer-day
☕ 🍂 🥪
Come out from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to enjoy coffee on the patio and some light autumnal yard work in our gardens. Lunch will be provided for folks who sign up today: vcca.typeform.com/volunteer-day
This weekend at VCCA! 🍂🎨✨
Saturday, October 25: Fall Volunteer Day
💚 vcca.com/volunteer
Sunday, October 26: Fall Open Studios
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Saturday, October 25: Fall Volunteer Day
💚 vcca.com/volunteer
Sunday, October 26: Fall Open Studios
🧡 vcca.com/open-studios
October 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This weekend at VCCA! 🍂🎨✨
Saturday, October 25: Fall Volunteer Day
💚 vcca.com/volunteer
Sunday, October 26: Fall Open Studios
🧡 vcca.com/open-studios
Saturday, October 25: Fall Volunteer Day
💚 vcca.com/volunteer
Sunday, October 26: Fall Open Studios
🧡 vcca.com/open-studios
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A newsletter dispatch from @the-vcca.bsky.social. Thoughts on abandoning works in progress. And on seagulls and residencies and other stuff.
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The Seagulls
On abandoning works in progress. And seagulls. And other stuff.
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August 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A newsletter dispatch from @the-vcca.bsky.social. Thoughts on abandoning works in progress. And on seagulls and residencies and other stuff.
eternal.beehiiv.com/p/the-seagul...
eternal.beehiiv.com/p/the-seagul...
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The very sad sign one encounters when concluding a glorious residency at @the-vcca.bsky.social and heading home ..
September 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The very sad sign one encounters when concluding a glorious residency at @the-vcca.bsky.social and heading home ..
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Setting in for a few weeks at @the-vcca.bsky.social as I try to get my hands around something brand new. (This is the Fellows Library, not my studio, which I will set up in the morning … )
August 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Setting in for a few weeks at @the-vcca.bsky.social as I try to get my hands around something brand new. (This is the Fellows Library, not my studio, which I will set up in the morning … )
We're one month away from VCCA's next application deadline ☀️ September 15, 2025 ☀️ — and two weeks away from the next Artist Residency Application Primer.
RSVP, and bring your questions to this interactive Zoom session taking place Friday, August 29, at Noon ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/august-202...
RSVP, and bring your questions to this interactive Zoom session taking place Friday, August 29, at Noon ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/august-202...
August 2025 Art Residency Application Primer: An Interactive Conversation
Get insider tips on applying to artist, writer and composer residencies straight from the Fellows and Staff of the VCCA!
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August 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We're one month away from VCCA's next application deadline ☀️ September 15, 2025 ☀️ — and two weeks away from the next Artist Residency Application Primer.
RSVP, and bring your questions to this interactive Zoom session taking place Friday, August 29, at Noon ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/august-202...
RSVP, and bring your questions to this interactive Zoom session taking place Friday, August 29, at Noon ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/august-202...
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I’m leaving @the-vcca.bsky.social feeling greedy for more—more time and space, more candid advice from those who have gone through the publishing journey.
As Robin Tewes used to tell her students: If it feels hard, you’re learning something.
I must be learning a lot.
#vccafellow #writingresidency
As Robin Tewes used to tell her students: If it feels hard, you’re learning something.
I must be learning a lot.
#vccafellow #writingresidency
July 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’m leaving @the-vcca.bsky.social feeling greedy for more—more time and space, more candid advice from those who have gone through the publishing journey.
As Robin Tewes used to tell her students: If it feels hard, you’re learning something.
I must be learning a lot.
#vccafellow #writingresidency
As Robin Tewes used to tell her students: If it feels hard, you’re learning something.
I must be learning a lot.
#vccafellow #writingresidency
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New book loading... 📖✨️ Beyond excited to be awarded a residency fellowship from @the-vcca.bsky.social to work on my second novel! I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity and support--especially given the deeply personal origin of my new project. #VCCAFellows #writinglife #artistresidency
July 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
New book loading... 📖✨️ Beyond excited to be awarded a residency fellowship from @the-vcca.bsky.social to work on my second novel! I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity and support--especially given the deeply personal origin of my new project. #VCCAFellows #writinglife #artistresidency