Helen M. Salzberg Visiting Artist Fellowship

1. The HMS Visiting Artist Fellowship provides endowments to one selected artist
per year and facilitate exhibitions and mentoring opportunities for Visiting Artists.

1. One Visiting Artist is selected per year and awarded a grant of $6,000. The Visiting Artist receives two payments of $3,000 during the fellowship year. A payment of $3,000 is made at the beginning of the artist proposal and the second payment of $3,3000 at the completion of the artist project. The grant funds cover all costs incurred fulfilling the following obligations. 
2. Selected artists will agree to participate in a Biennale at the HMS Fine Arts Gallery.
3. Selected artists will agree to donate one work or a limited-edition original print to the HMS Fine Arts Study Art Collection.
4. Selected artists must make a lecture presentation for a student group and/or a community engagement workshop on or off campus.  The Foundation provides additional funds of $1,000 per event for the facilitation of either a lecture presentation and/or community engagement workshop.
5. Selected artists are expected to make themselves available for mentorship opportunities on or off campus with the HMS Student Arts Mentorship recipients. The HMS Student Arts Mentorship program is not exclusive to the Gardens campus, should be available to students on all campuses, and does not need to physically occur on the Gardens Campus or in the HMS Fine Arts Gallery.
6. Selected artists must write a year-end fellowship summary of their activities for presentation to the HMS Visiting Artist Fellowship Committee.
7. The program aims to present and sponsor a diverse and inclusive group of artists, representative of our diverse student body.
8. The program focuses on local contemporary artists, but artists of a national profile will be featured when appropriate or possible.
9. Artists are selected by their level of accomplishment, but most importantly the artist should be able to complete the required duties of the fellowship as listed above and emphasis will be placed on their commitment to the mission of the Center.
10. The program establishes and upholds the procedures of a Visiting Artist Fellowship Committee made up of faculty, Salzberg family members, and foundation representatives as a way of implementing the above stated Mission and Policies.

1. The Visiting Artist Fellowship Committee Procedures

1. The Committee will be made up of members of the full-time art faculty, a member of the Salzberg family, and a representative of the Foundation.
2. A Committee Chair will be nominated by the full-time faculty and the Administration from the full-time art faculty on a yearly basis. The Committee Chair will receive three credit hours of release time to fulfill the obligations associated with the administration of the program.
3. The Committee Chair will call 1-2 meetings per semester to review artist proposals and discuss development and implementation.
4. The Committee Chair will be responsible for the gathering and presentation of Visiting Artist Fellowship candidates, for proposing and setting the meeting agenda, and for moderating of meetings.
5. Announcement of the HMS Visiting Artist Fellowship opportunity will be made public in various art publications and on the college website.
6. Review of the candidates will be made during committee meetings, and discussion and review of images will happen only at this time. Any discussion of proposed artists outside of meetings will not be considered official consideration.
7. A simple majority vote of convened members will be considered sufficient for finalizing the decision-making process. Candidates can be reconsidered at future meetings if they are initially denied.
8. Minutes of the meetings and a year-end fellowship summary will be filed and presented by the Committee Chair.
9. The development and implementation of the HMS Visiting Artist Fellowship will primarily remain the responsibilities of the Committee Chair and Art Faculty. The marketing, community partnerships and sponsorships, and accounting and disbursements of artists funds will reside within the purview of the Foundation and their representatives.