CALT Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships

Introduction

Mid Atlantic Arts partners with Grow Appalachia of Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association on the Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships. These fellowships honor, celebrate, and support foodways tradition bearers in Central Appalachia who have made significant contributions to sustaining and supporting the foodways heritage of their communities. 

Fellows may include home cooks and bakers, seed savers, farmers, community elders, keepers of recipes and traditional foodways knowledge, hunters, and foragers. Fellows must be from an Appalachian Regional Commission-designated county. Priority is given to applicants from Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. 

A practitioner may apply on their own behalf, or a community member may nominate a foodways practitioner for the Fellowship.

Each Fellow receives $5,000 in unrestricted funding and a unique physical award created by an Appalachian traditional artist. The Fellows are honored each year at the Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference. 

The Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships are part of Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program.