The Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Columbus Museum of Art announced the six recipients of the 2025 Visual Arts Fellowship awards on November 21. The fellows, chosen from 154 applicants, each receive a $15,000 cash award and will be featured in the Greater Columbus: The 2026 GCAC Visual Arts Awards Exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art from April 15 through September 20, 2026.

The 2025 recipients are Malcolm Cochran, Yusef Ferguson, Dana Lynn Harper, Marcus Jackson, Michelle Stitzlein, and Bradley Weyandt. Cochran has created large-scale sculptures and site-specific public art since the late 1970s; his most recent project, Requiem, was an installation combining vocal performance in response to genocide. Ferguson is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work addresses the intersections of spirituality, history, science, and culture. Harper holds an MFA in sculpture from Pennsylvania State University, where she received the Bunton Waller Fellowship; her sculptures explore racial identity and material connections to cultural heritage. Jackson is a poet whose work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine; his second collection, Pardon My Heart, was published in 2018 by Northwestern University Press. Stitzlein maintains a studio in a former grange hall in Baltimore, Ohio. All six recipients are also eligible to apply for GCAC’s Artist Exchange program in Dresden, Germany following completion of the fellowship.

Source: https://www.gcac.org/press-release/gcac-cma-announce-2025-visual-arts-fellowships/