The USC Annenberg School for Communication and The Getty Foundation are pleased to announce the 7th annual Arts Journalism Fellowship.

About the Fellowship

The 2008 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program is a three week, mid-career  education fellowship for arts, culture and entertainment editors, producers and writers. This is an international program for six to seven professional arts editors, critics and reporters from print, radio, television and online who cover the performing and visual arts, architecture, literature, entertainment and pop culture – and who own these beats either as generalists or specialists who focus on one beat.  Staff, freelancers and self-employed Web journalists are welcome.

Based in Los Angeles, the fellowship—which will be held November 1 to 22—is a total immersion experience that includes attending as many as 23 performances, art exhibitions and architectural sites.  Participants will visit artists’ private studios, rehearsal rooms, architectural firms and art schools. The idea is to provide unusual behind-the-scene experiences that engage the USC Annenberg/Getty Fellows in frank and often off-the-record conversations with artists and the people who produce, curate, report on, and/or write policy on arts and urban culture.  Click here for more information.

Important Details

• Fellowship dates: November 1 – 22, 2008
• How to apply :  Email an application request to uscgetty@usc.edu. Include your name, media affiliation(s), number of years you have been practicing arts journalism and your contact information. In addition, please note if you have applied in the past and for what year.
• Application Deadline:  June 16, 2008 (postmarked no later than this date)
• Notification of Acceptance:  August 8, 2008
• Location:  Los Angeles, CA
• Cost:  The program covers most expenses, including: roundtrip travel to and from Los Angeles, hotel, most meals, reading materials, Internet access in your hotel room and transportation within Los Angeles. 

2008 Fellowship program may include:

• Marisela Norte, left, interviews artist Gronk in his studio.

  Digital Media + Arts Reporting – a 3 to 5 day emphasis with Douglas McLennan and hot shots
• Behind-the-scene at the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM)
• Practicing Art As Moral Action -- with Peter Sellars
• “Hollywood and the Pop Culture Pump”
• Conversation with composer Morten Lauridsen
• “Marcel Duchamp Redux” at the Norton Simon Museum
• Politics and Art – a dance lecture-demonstration with Cambodian refugees
• “Global Gaming” – how games, the Internet and social networking shrink cultural differences
• “Adès and Berlioz” with the LA Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Adès
  

View the full program from 2007 and get a good idea of typical offerings. 

Comments from Past Fellows

“USC Annenberg/Getty  takes the unknown and makes it known.  It opens your eyes to different things.”    
~ Christopher Blank, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Performing Arts Reporter & Critic

“The Fellowship’s fine arts focus helped ground me in some areas where I was weak (fine arts, contemporary classical music) and re-emphasized the importance of a pop culture/fine arts balance.”   
~ Rick Holter, NPR West, News Editor
 
“Very rarely does somebody stick you on a bus with eight other pros who have the same aspirations and fears that you do, and you just get to talk about what works and what doesn’t.”   
~ Doug McCash, The Times-Picayune, Art Critic and Staff Writer

“The Fellowship made it clear that arts and culture build community.  I hadn’t necessarily positioned our arts and culture coverage like that, but the program helped me see that that’s what it’s about”   
~ Mary Frances Emmons, Orlando Sentinel, Arts & Entertainment Editor

Program leadership

Sasha Anawalt, Director
Arianna Sikorski, Program Coordinator

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