We are now accepting applications for the 2020 ARCEL Fellowship.
This program is focused on those who are exploring a deepening call to serve in a way that brings together spiritual and creative practices. Creativity, imagination, and the arts have a vital role to play in our faith, and ARC is proud to build on the long list of ARC Fellows from the past by making a particular commitment to support rising leaders in this work.
What is the ARCEL Fellowship?
The Emerging ARC Leaders Fellowship is a program designed to accomplish four things:
Identify, annually, six rising young leaders whose sense of calling lives at the intersection of creative practice, spirituality, and work that builds up communities. These leaders will be drawn from gap-year young adults, undergraduates, graduate students, working artists, and early career clergy.
Provide these leaders with exposure to tools, models, and relationships that can help them to thrive in their individual contexts and communities where they may feel disconnected and relatively unsupported in terms of their work to braid together creative and spiritual practices.
Encourage these leaders as they wrestle with their sense of call, introducing them to each other and to networks of other leaders who are at the edge of innovation and discovery about the ways in which the arts and religion can be twinned to produce transformative opportunities for reflection and change.
Make Space for the fellows to reflect and discern how their own unique skills can best be used to promote the flourishing of all creation.
Note: This is less of a training program and more of an opportunity for reflection, re-orientation, and consideration of what leadership might look like for you in your work. While Fellows will almost certainly pick up some skills and develop new ways of discussing their work, inspiration, and service, this Fellowship is more about helping you to clarify, sharpen, and reinforce your own sense of personal trajectory.
Applications or questions should be sent to ARCEL@ArtsReligionCulture.org. All application materials must be submitted by May 31, 2020 and all decisions will be announced no later than by June 10, 2020.
More information about the program is available here.