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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
#VCCAFellows at #MtSanAngelo woke up to a winter wonderland today. ✨

🧡 Photos by Betsy
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 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
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 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
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 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
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🧡🖤 Courtesy of the #MtSanAngelo Kitchen Witches 🧡🖤
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 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/...
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This weekend at VCCA! 🍂🎨✨

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
It's Osage orange season at Mt. San Angelo!

💛 💚 🧠

#vcca #mtsanangelo #osageorange #vccafellows
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Early drafts of new birds and new books are taking form around the writing studios at VCCA's Studio Barn. 🧡 #MtSanAngelo #writingresidency #VCCAFellows
June 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"My first residency at VCCA gave me the confidence to keep writing. My second residency at VCCA gave me the confidence to call myself an artist." — William Torrey

#VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #artistcommunity #writingresidency
May 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
VCCA Executive Dog Asta conducts secret business in secret gardens. #MtSanAngelo
May 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We're one week away from our next application deadline! Writers, visual artists, and composers looking for a Spring 2026 (❄️ January thru April 🌸) residency at VCCA's #MtSanAngelo in Virginia should apply before midnight on May 15, 2025. vcca.com/apply
May 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🧡 Introducing the 2025 Cows in Residence! #MtSanAngelo #VCCAFellows
May 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Happy #EarthDay from beautiful #MtSanAngelo, home to VCCA's flagship artist residency program in the rolling foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. 🧡

📷: Paige Critcher
April 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pool season is coming to Mt. San Angelo! VCCA Executive Dog Asta tests the waters.

#VCCAFellows #artistresidency #artistcommunity #MtSanAngelo
April 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Each year, VCCA must raise 50% of its operating budget to support the more than 400 artists who flock to our pastoral hilltop in need of a nurturing environment for artistic exploration, experimentation, and discovery. Please help us to continue this important work: vcca.com/give
April 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
March 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Spring has arrived early in Auvillar, France, where VCCA staff at le Moulin à Nef have been hard at work preparing to open the 2025 residency season next week! They're looking forward to welcoming the first four #VCCAFellows and the first Resident Fellow of the year on Monday.
March 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🌸 Applications are open for Spring 2026 VCCA residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia! Application deadline: May 15, 2025

🧡 vcca.com/residencies-at-vcca
🧡 vcca.com/fully-funed-fellowships
🧡 vcca.com/apply
February 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Happy snow day from Mt. San Angelo! Though you can tell by the footprints that a little snow can't keep #VCCAFellows from their studios. ❄️ ✍️ 🎨 🎼 🧡 #MtSanAngelo #VCCA #artistresidency #snowday

📷: Paige Critcher
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Happy deadline day! Apply before midnight 🕛 to be considered for a Fall 2025 residency at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia.

🌟 vcca.com/apply
🌟 vcca.com/fully-funded-fellowships

📷: Recent view of the VCCA Gazebo at Mt. San Angelo by Betsy
January 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📣 There's just under a week left to apply for Fall 2025 🍁 VCCA residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia! Apply before midnight on January 15, 2025.

🧡 vcca.com/residencies-at-vcca
🧡 vcca.com/fully-funed-fellowships
🧡 vcca.com/apply
January 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Today marks the start of our Winter 2025 residency period at Mt. San Angelo! We're thrilled to welcome the first #VCCAFellows of the year, and we wish safe travels to each writer, visual artist, and composer headed our way this season. ❄️ ✨
January 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Celebrating the recent adventures of our very own Paige Critcher who journeyed to Dharamsala, India, with an entrepreneurial program for Tibetans sponsored by UVA's Dept of Religious Studies 🧡 Yes, she even had the honor of meeting the Dalai Lama! Here’s to more life-changing moments in 2025!
December 31, 2024 at 3:15 PM
2024 brought 400+ #VCCAFellows to Virginia and 40+ to France! 🎨 🎼 ✍️ 💫 Help us keep creating space for artists in 2025. Consider a year-end gift to VCCA's Annual Fund: vcca.com/annual-fund

Wishing you a joyous New Year from all of us at Mt. San Angelo and le Moulin à Nef! 🌟
December 31, 2024 at 2:34 PM