The Alexia

The Alexia is pleased to announce the selection of STACY GOLD as The Alexia 2026 Archive Fellow.

Launched in 2023, The Alexia Fellows initiative provides accomplished visual storytelling professionals the opportunity and support to reflect, research and develop skills while producing a project of significance.

The initiative is made possible through the generous support of one of The Alexia’s first student grant recipients, Xin Liu (1993)—now co-founder and president of The Enlight Foundation—in honor of The Alexia’s founding director, David Sutherland, and his wife, Pei Lin Huang.

During the fellowship, Stacy will gather, organize and activate The Alexia Archive, a repository of images, projects and visual storytellers recognized over the past 35 years. The goal is to maximize the collection’s potential for use in exhibitions, publications and educational efforts.

We encourage you to apply THIS LAST WEEK for our professional and student grants, including the traditional Vision grants as well as pop-up and mentor grants. The submission cycle is open until 11:59 p.m. EST February 13.

Please visit thealexia.org for more information — including about this year’s POP-UP GRANTS in faith, conservation, environmental change, green spaces, health and sports — and to review submission rules.

This year, WE ARE ALSO OFFERING MENTOR GRANTS for students with Gregory Heisler, Lynn Johnson, Ed Kashi, Sandra M. Stephenson and Stephen Wilkes.

The recipient of the PROFESSIONAL VISION GRANT will receive $20,000 and a Sony camera/lens to produce their proposed project. The recipient of the STUDENT VISION GRANT will receive $2,000 and a Sony camera/lens to advance their proposed project, as well as the following: a fellowship for tuition and fees to audit three courses during a semester at the Newhouse School, automatic acceptance into the Eddie Adams Workshop (unless previously attended), and they will be considered for a paid position to serve as a research assistant to The Alexia chair.

For reference, feel free to review last year’s winners and finalists at
https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/centers/the-alexia/grants/2025-alexia-grant-recipients-and-finalists/.

Thank you to Visura.co for sharing its platform with us again this year. And thank you for being part of The Alexia community.