The intersection of innovation and creativity
“We’ll … cultivate an environment that nurtures exploration and allows curiosity to be the reward.”
“We’ll … cultivate an environment that nurtures exploration and allows curiosity to be the reward.”
“Thanks to the Mellon Foundation, we’ll be able to bring the DisTIL Fellowship to life and cultivate an environment that nurtures exploration and allows curiosity to be the reward.”
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continues to support Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) with a four-year, $1 million grant to launch DisTIL, (Discovery through Iterative Learning), an artist fellowship program.
With DisTIL, CPA re-invents the relationship between the artist and the academy. CPA will invite select artists on campus for multi-week, multi-year research residencies, ensuring fellows sufficient time, space and resources to establish productive intellectual and creative relationships with Carolina’s distinguished faculty that go beyond performance.
The grant builds on the recent success of the Mellon Foundation-funded Arts@TheCore initiative from 2012, which emphasized the important role faculty play in the work of a university-based performing arts presenting program.
