Durational Pedagogies Fellowship, Dia Chelsea, 2025–26

Application deadline: August 10, 2025

October 2025–June 2026

$2,500 stipend

About Dia Art Foundation

Based in New York, Dia Art Foundation is committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists. A nonprofit founded in 1974, Dia collects the work of some of the most renowned artists of the last half-century, presents long-term, site-specific projects, executes new commissions, and produces scholarly publications related to its exhibitions and collection.

Learning at Dia is founded on the idea that art is an active, self-determined experience. Since their inception in 1993 in New York, learning programs have offered space for the collective curiosity and inquiry of artists, educators, and learners to be in critical exchange at Dia.

For more about Dia’s constellation of sites, exhibitions, and programs of engagement, visit our website.

About the fellowship

Fellowships at Dia offer emerging artists, educators, and cultural producers in the suggested age range of 20–26 exposure to and practice in being both the author and protagonist of their own creative, intellectual, and professional trajectories. Based at Dia Chelsea and engaging Dia’s constellation of sites, the fellowship explores the potential for meaningful learning experiences at the intersection of contemporary art, experimental pedagogy, and community engagement.

Now in its third year, Dia’s Learning and Engagement Fellowship invites opportunities for deep, evolving inquiry into time-based and durational approaches across diverse forms of creative and pedagogical practice, proposing a rigorous engagement with temporality and its role in shaping memory, imagination, experience, and exchange. How do constructions of time—from the ephemeral and nonlinear to the cyclical and enduring—shape our ability to learn, make meaning, and find shared resonance within community.

Rooted in Dia’s commitment to long-form inquiry and artist-led experimentation, the cohort will participate in process-driven research, dialogue, and mentorship, fostering individual growth while nurturing a collective exploration of how pedagogical and artistic practices can be attuned to time and responsive to Dia, its communities, and broader spheres of cultural production.

Fellowship elements

• Individualized mentorship from Dia artists, educators, and staff
• An inclusive and co-created peer-learning community
• Access to artists, materials, and community spaces
• Direct engagement with Dia’s Learning and Engagement programs
• Dia will host a virtual information session on the 2025–26 Durational Pedagogies Fellowship on Tuesday, July 22, 2026, 4–5 pm; register here.

Fellowship details

• Department: Learning and Engagement
• Cohort: Eight fellows, suggested age 20–26
• Duration: October 2025–June 2026

Schedule: 

• Monthly cohort session: One Friday per month at Dia Chelsea; select sessions will take place offsite and with extended hours
• Monthly mentorship meetings
• Monthly program engagement
• Stipend: $2,500, to be disbursed in two payments of $1,250 in January and June 2026

Selection criteria

Dia invites applications for the Durational Pedagogies Fellowship from young people in the suggested age range of 20–26 who have an interest in contemporary art, experimental pedagogy, and community engagement, and who seek opportunities to deepen their individual creative or pedagogical practices in collaboration with peers and within the context of Dia Art Foundation and its Learning and Engagement department.

The selection process is open and competitive; application materials are assessed on the thoughtfulness and quality of work submitted as well as demonstrated potential to thrive in a collaborative and self-determinative peer community.

Application process

• To apply, please complete the online application, linked here. You will be asked to submit the following:

1. A letter of intent in audio, video, or written form
2. A creative response to one of three prompts in any form or medium
3. Optional supplemental materials

• See application for full details.
• Applications will be accepted through Sunday, August 10, 2025. Interviews and fellowship positions will be offered on a rolling basis; applicants are encouraged to apply early. 

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