The Fellowship Program

Launched in partnership with Craigardan, the John Brown Lives! Fellows Program is dedicated to nurturing and empowering artists, scholars, and activists who are guided by a compassionate sense of history and its contemporary reverberations. We are grateful to Craigardan for teaming up with us to host and welcome our inaugural Fellows into their vibrant creative community.

The John Brown Lives! Fellowship at Craigardan supports humanists engaged in the performing and visual arts, creative writing, scholarship and activism, and whose work is guided by a compassionate sense of history and its contemporary reverberations. JBL! Fellows possess a commitment to expressions of freedom, equality and social justice, ideals for which the Abolitionist John Brown dedicated and sacrificed his life.

Awardees receive a scholarship from Craigardan, and a fellowship from John Brown Lives! to cover the cost of a two-week residency, plus a grant. Fellows participate in a public event at John Brown Farm in Lake Placid. Only one JBL! Fellowship is awarded each summer; currently by invitation only. Please email program@craigardan.org to inquire.