Learning and Engagement fellowships at Dia offer emerging artists, educators, and cultural producers in the suggested age range of 20–26 exposure to and practice in being both the author and protagonist of their own creative, intellectual, and professional trajectories. Based at Dia Chelsea and engaging with Dia’s constellation of sites, fellowships explore the potential for meaningful learning experiences at the intersection of contemporary art, experimental pedagogy, and community engagement.

Fellowships include mentorship from Dia artists, educators, and staff; a co-created, peer-learning community with monthly, in-person meetings; access to artists, materials, and community spaces; and direct engagement with Dia’s education and public programs.

Fellowships are offered annually, and participants receive a stipend of $2,500. For more information or to receive updates, email learning@diaart.org.

The application period is now closed. For information on future opportunities, please visit Dia’s Employment, Internships, and Opportunities page.

Durational Pedagogies Fellowship, Dia Chelsea, 2025–26

How do constructions of time—from the ephemeral and nonlinear to the cyclical and enduring—shape our ability to learn, make meaning, and find shared resonance within community? Now in its third year, Dia’s Learning and Engagement Fellowship invites opportunities for deep, evolving inquiry into time-based and durational approaches across diverse forms of creative and pedagogical practice, proposing a rigorous engagement with temporality and its role in shaping memory, imagination, experience, and exchange.

Rooted in Dia’s commitment to long-form inquiry and artist-led experimentation, the cohort will participate in process-driven research, dialogue, and mentorship, fostering individual growth while nurturing a collective exploration of how pedagogical and artistic practices can be attuned to time and responsive to Dia, its communities, and broader spheres of cultural production.

A virtual information session was held on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 4–5 pm; to view a recording, please click here.