"Amazing grounds, efficient staff, great meals. I was lucky to meet friendly and talented artists." — Cristián Pietrapiana #VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #artistcommunity #artistresidency

Happy June! Applications are now open for Summer 2027 residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia. 🌞 Apply by September 15, 2026. https://www.vcca.com/apply/

Mark your calendar for next Sunday, May 31! Six #VCCAFellows will open their studios to the public: vcca.com/open-studios

As we celebrate VCCA's founding 55 years ago today, it's fitting to read a feature in the latest issue of Virginia Living Magazine honoring Virginia's literary landscape and legacy! We're happy to be included.

I am overwhelmed & honored to announce that I have been selected to participate in a @the-vcca.bsky.social writing residency. Slowly but surely, my dreams are coming true. Thank you VCCA family for this opportunity. I hope I can be a credit to this incredible institution for artists. #VCCAFellows

As of today, VCCA has been providing the gift of uninterrupted time and space to writers, visual artists, and composers for 🎉 55 YEARS 🎉 !! To mark this major milestone, we’re asking you to consider making a $55 gift. 💚 🧡 🩵 https://secure.qgiv.com/for/vccabirthdaycelebration55

"It’s hard to imagine a place so bucolic and lovely being exciting, but it was. The combination of working on my own projects and sharing the ideas and energy of other artists was heady and validating. Thank you, VCCA." — Dana Salisbury #VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #artistcommunity #artistresidency

We're thrilled to have composer 🎺 Michael R. Dudley Jr. 🎺 in residence as the latest recipient of VCCA’s Anne Spencer Fellowship!! Join us at the historic Anne Spencer House at 2 p.m. this Friday, May 15, to learn about their work: https://mailchi.mp/vcca/anne-spencer-event #VCCAFellows

Mt. San Angelo is abuzz with busy bees and busy #VCCAFellows alike. Photo by Blythe #VCCA #MtSanAngelo #artistresidency

"VCCA was a dream I didn’t know I was supposed to have." — Carol Barber 📷: Studio VA7 at VCCA, 2026 #VCCAFellows #MtSanAngelo #artistcommunity #artistresidency

Looks like it's going to be a gorgeous Saturday for Spring Volunteer Day at VCCA this weekend! Come out to #MtSanAngelo at 10 a.m. on April 4, for some light yard work on the grounds of our artist residency program. Lunch will be provided; sign up by Tuesday, March 31: vcca.com/volunteer-day

Join us at VCCA for Volunteer Day the first weekend of April to enjoy a little fresh air and some springtime magic. Lunch will be provided for volunteers who sign up by Tuesday, March 31: www.vcca.com/volunteer-day

Now accepting applications! Established #interdisciplinary #visualartists pushing the boundaries of traditional and nontraditional materials/approaches are invited to apply for a first-time VCCA residency of up to 30 days with $1000 honorarium and $750 travel stipend. www.vcca.com/wachtmeister-award

Happy February! Residency applications are now open for VCCA's Spring 2027 scheduling period at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia. The deadline to apply is May 15, 2026. vcca.com/residencies-... #artistcommunity #vccafellows #mtsanangelo #writers #visualartists #composers

Check out this thoughtfully curated list of residency opportunities for writers of all stripes, courtesy of @insidehighered.com: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... #writingresidency #artistcommunity

The VCCA Fellows Council is bringing you another interactive Zoom session to answer your questions about applying to artist residency programs. 🧡 A good way to kick off 2026! www.eventbrite.com/e/january-20...

“My time at VCCA was such a gift. I appreciated the energizing balance of solitude and community . . . quiet, focused days in the studio followed by evenings of conversation, shared meals, and connection. I was able to paint more freely than I ever have before.” — Hope Morgan #VCCAFellows

#VCCAFellow here: this place is beautiful year-round. The deadline for Fall 2026 residencies is January 15. Apply: www.vcca.com/apply/reside...

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

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

Back to the real world after a productive 3 weeks at a beautiful residency @the-vcca.bsky.social Hope to be back soon!

VOTE! Then MOOOOOO. @the-vcca.bsky.social

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

Happy Halloween! @the-vcca.bsky.social

🧡🖤 Courtesy of the #MtSanAngelo Kitchen Witches 🧡🖤

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

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/...

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

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

This weekend at VCCA! 🍂🎨✨ Saturday, October 25: Fall Volunteer Day 💚 vcca.com/volunteer Sunday, October 26: Fall Open Studios 🧡 vcca.com/open-studios

It's Osage orange season at Mt. San Angelo! 💛 💚 🧠 #vcca #mtsanangelo #osageorange #vccafellows

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...

The very sad sign one encounters when concluding a glorious residency at @the-vcca.bsky.social and heading home ..

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...

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

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

full moon over the barn last night at @the-vcca.bsky.social

Early drafts of new birds and new books are taking form around the writing studios at VCCA's Studio Barn. 🧡 #MtSanAngelo #writingresidency #VCCAFellows

Sure was hard to leave @the-vcca.bsky.social this morning. What an inspiring place to write, research, and break bread with some amazingly talented writers and visual artists. Such a treat and privilege to spend time on the mountain.

Thrilled to be heading back to @the-vcca.bsky.social this year—a place I love! I am grateful to these wonderful folks who make the arts possible. ❤️

"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

VCCA Executive Dog Asta conducts secret business in secret gardens. #MtSanAngelo

Happy deadline day! Writers, visual artists, and composers hoping for an artist residency at VCCA in Spring 2026 (❄️ January thru April 🌸) should apply before ✨ midnight ✨ tonight. www.vcca.com/apply/reside... #MtSanAngelo #VCCAFellows #artistresidency #artistcommunity

In one week, I'll be travelling to Virginia to work on my new novel at the @the-vcca.bsky.social. I am SO excited and grateful for this residency opportunity! Being in community with other artists always lends some magic to my pen.