Paula Altvater Fellowship

Fellowship to work with Cornerstone ensemble and staff on aspects of design, directing, administration and production in the company's current community collaboration. In recent years, focus on working alongside the Institute director to produce Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency Program. Full-time position requiring consecutive eight-week commitment between May and early August. Application period usually in February. Stipend: $2,000.

Media Making Change

Eight-week Summer Documentary Program for undergraduates. Students learn how media tools can positively affect public policy. Can earn a full term's worth of credit from the University of Oregon School of Communication. Each student attends media-studies courses, then works with NPR producers and Academy-award-nominated filmmakers, producing both an audio and a video documentary about a local solution to a global issue. Tuition = $1,250. Limited number of scholarships available.

Arts Mentoring Fellowship

Two year-long, paid, post-graduate fellowships in Arts Mentoring Fellowship Program at New Urban Arts community art studio for high-school students. Fellows supporting artists who mentor high-school arts students and publicly sharing artwork and community-arts ideas reflecting New Urban Arts pedagogy. Includes financial stipend ($10,000) and studio space. Runs October 1-June 1, with opportunity for one-year renewal. Deadline is May 1.

Community Arts Fellowship

Graduate-level fellowship within an arts organization, designed to experiment with and define new ways of hands-on collaboration between artists and a broad community. Located in The ARTery space, a hands-on, drop-in, collaborative art-making gallery. Fellow will develop interactive projects specific to his/her area of interest that reach out to new communities, provide more in-depth engagement into exhibitions in the galleries, and provide an accessible entry point to the Arts Center for active participation by people of all skill levels and ages. Stipend: $18,000. Full-time, ten-month commitment. John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a 100,000-square-foot visual and performing-arts complex devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary art; new models for community arts; educational partnering with an emphasis on early-childhood education; presenting performing artists; supporting practicing artists through residencies. Complex includes ten galleries, theater, interdisciplinary performance space, studio-classrooms, meeting spaces, gift shop and café. Community Arts Department, a programming department at the Arts Center has five programs: Connecting Communities, The ARTery, the Community Gallery, the Partnership Program and Community Events.