The fellowships at the Vera List Center support individuals whose work advances discourse on art and politics. The appointments provide these individuals with the opportunity to further develop such work by drawing on the academic resources of The New
School, to expand on the work in collaboration with students and classes, and to bring it to the public through the Vera List Center's interdisciplinary programs. In 2020, two additional fellowships were launched: the Borderlands Fellowship
and the Boris Lurie Fellowship.
The Borderlands Fellowship, a collaborative effort with the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University (ASU), is awarded biennially to two artists, scholars,
or thinkers. It pairs the institutional resources of the Vera List Center in New York City and the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, in order to support research projects that create
communities across different geographical, cultural, and political landscapes.
The Boris Lurie Fellowship is named after Russian-born artist Boris Lurie (1924-2008), a Holocaust survivor and the founder of the NO! art movement. In acknowledgment of The New School’s historic University in Exile, the Boris Lurie Fellowship is reserved for
an artist living outside of the United States, with special consideration given to those who have faced political hardship. The Boris Lurie Fellowship is made possible by support from the Boris Lurie Art Foundation and the Schaina and Josephina Lurje Memorial
Foundation.
Fellowship projects relate to the current curatorial focus theme and are selected either following an open call for applications (Boris Lurie, Vera List Center) or by nomination (Borderlands).
They result in performances, concerts, exhibitions, lectures, online artworks, archives, or publications. Visit our website for more information and to learn about our current and
former fellows.