Fellowship Program
12-Month Artist Fellowships
Fellowship applications are now closed.
The Fellowships provide emerging artists, age 21- 40, opportunities to participate in a vibrant, nonprofit gallery with an experienced gallery staff and practicing artist members.
Fellowship support is reciprocal, and, in that regard, we look forward to what Fellows bring to the gallery by way of fresh artistic expression. It is our hope that Fellowship opportunities will work as a catalyst for accelerated artistic growth for Fellows and Artist Members alike.
GRO Fellows have an opportunity to show their work in up to 6 exhibitions including one solo show and one 2-person show and will receive a $1000 stipend to offset the associated costs. Fellows are high-lighted in GRO marketing and promotions.
Artists living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, convenient to Point Reyes Station, and working in any fine art medium. Fellowships are open to Emerging Artists ages 21-40. BIPOC artists are encouraged to apply.
Testimonials
“My fellowship experience at GRO offered me a supportive container to pursue a large-scale photography and oral history project. Upon completion, I received resources and valuable experience during installation and a meaningful platform to exhibit my work and be in dialog with the community. Additionally, there were great opportunities to work in the gallery setting and participate in GRO’s programs, like Artist in the Schools. I am grateful for my time spent with GRO and would recommend it to emerging artists!”
Shannon O’Neill Creighton, 2020-21
“The Fellowship at Gallery Route One provided an opportunity to participate in a members run gallery setting. I was able to have a solo exhibition and place work with a handful of collectors. I made connections with other local artists and organizations and was even interviewed for a local radio show. Overall, it was a worthwhile experience that I would recommend for any emerging artist.”
Becca Barolli, 2019-20 Fellow
Fellowship Program Donation
Since 2014, Gallery Route One’s Fellowship Program has nurtured the studio practice of fourteen artists, 21-40 years old, throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, the Fellowship Program furthers their art careers as skilled participants and leaders in community service.
Please help support this important program.
Among the many benefits provided to the Fellowship Artist, your generous donation will support:
- $1000 stipend for each Fellow
- Exhibition opportunities
- Mentoring and professional development
- Participation in our Artists in the Schools Program
2025 GRO Fellows
Megan Broughton
Megan is a skilled printmaker committed to her craft. She is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (BFA, 2012). Her recent residencies include The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard, Norway (2019), MaréMotrice, Greenland (2023) and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley (2024). Recent awards include the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2023) and an Honorable Mention in GRO’s juried show “Seen and Imagined” (2023). Megan has been employed as an art educator for over a decade. She is now a full time practicing artist.
About her current work Megan writes: I seek to inspire care for the climate by bringing faraway, sublime environments that are crucial to our everyday lives closer to home. My work is informed by onsite studies in the Arctic, whose materiality and deep time shapes my practice and guides my choice of materials…Throughout my work, representational imagery is playfully swept away. Portals seem to form as pictures change over the course of a series, forming new shapes and entities.
About the 2025 Fellowship she writes: I hope to meet supportive peers, receive guidance working within a gallery, and spearhead vibrant programming. I am a hard worker and ready for the next stage of my career. I hope to collaborate with GRO artists, the other Fellow, and Fellowship alumni with similar interests whose careers I have followed. The solo show and two-person shows are perfectly aligned with my art career goals for 2025. The Artists in Schools Program speaks to my values as a longtime arts educator; it is a program I would love to support.
Zulu Heru
While serving nine years in the US Army, Zulu simultaneously earned a BFA from Howard University, in Washington D.C. (2018). Not long after graduating he began handling and installing large scale sculptures across the country, including sculptures by legendary artists like Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Keith Haring, Jaume Plensa and Sanford Biggers. After relocating on the West Coast, Zulu created several large scale sculptures for Burning Man and was recognized with a Burning Man Honorarium Grant (Burning Man Project, 2023) and a Man Pavilion Honorarium Grant (Burning Man Project, 2024). He has participated in group exhibitions throughout California (2021-2024) and was a SEED resident in the Sola Contemporary Residency in Los Angeles (2023). He has been invited to speak to art organizations at events in California, Nevada and Washington. Zulu lives and creates art in San Francisco where he also works as a crane operator.
About his current work Zulu writes: I specialize in the creation of Afrocentric metal masks. I stand firmly as a safeguard for my ancestry, intending to keep ancient African traditions and culture alive through my artistic expression. The masks I create are a gateway into a more profound expression of my soul, experiences, and emotions throughout my journey. My choice of materials speaks volumes about my belief in the beauty that lies within all things. The items used to forge my creations are often repurposed scrap. I create with discarded materials in hopes that others will see the value in things that might otherwise be overlooked. These things are not utilitarian. Their existence is art and they can simply be appreciated for what they are as opposed to how they can be used. I look to be a pioneer in this movement of liberation…so that all may be free to follow what brings them deep joy, regardless of obstacles.
Past Fellows
Sofia V. Gonzalez, 2024
Taryn Möller Nicoll, 2024
Nicole Irene Anderson, 2022-23
Shannon O’Neill Creighton, 2020-21
Annie Duncan, 2020-21
Dane Singh, 2019-20
Becca Barolli, 2019-20
Marie-Luise Klotz, 2018-19
Hannah Mode, 2018-19
Kathy Siroco, 2017-18
Tania Houtzager, 2017-18
Isis Hockenos, 2016-17
Dennis Peterson, 2015-16
Kellie Flint, 2015-16
Jessica Eastburn, 2014-15