Sep 2016
American Friends of Coubertin announces 2017-18 fellowships.
American Friends of Coubertin is accepting applications for 2017-18. The fellowships cover expenses and a stipend, and are available to qualified young craftspeople in stone, wood, and metal.
Sep 2015
American Friends of Coubertin announces 2016-17 fellowships, sends a fellow to France for one year
American Friends of Coubertin is accepting applications for 2015-16. The fellowships cover expenses and a stipend, and are available to qualified young craftspeople in stone, wood, and metal.
The 2015-16 fellow is James Goedert, a woodworker from New Orleans. He will begin his fellowship in September 2015 and stay at Coubertin until July 2016.
Sep 2014
American Friends of Coubertin announces 2015-16 fellowships, sends a fellow to France for one year
American Friends of Coubertin is accepting applications for 2015-16. The fellowships cover expenses and a stipend, and are available to qualified young craftspeople in stone, wood, and metal.
The 2014-15 AFC fellow is Addison de Lisle, a metalsmith from Maine. He will begin his fellowship in September 2014 and stay at Coubertin until July 2015.
Sep 2013
American Friends of Coubertin announces 2014-15 fellowships
American Friends of Coubertin is accepting applications for 2014-15. The fellowships cover expenses and a stipend, and are available to qualified young craftspeople in stone, wood, and metal.
Sep 2012
American Friends of Coubertin announces 2013-14 fellowships
American Friends of Coubertin is accepting applications for 2013-14. The fellowships cover expenses and a stipend, and are available to qualified young craftspeople in stone, wood, and metal.
Sep 2011
American Friends of Coubertin announces 2012-13 fellowships, sends a second fellow to France for one year
For the second time, American Friends of Coubertin is sending an American fellow to train for a year at Coubertin. The 2011-12 AFC fellow is Meghan Shogan, a mason from North Carolina. She has taken a French language immersion course in August, and will stay in Coubertin until July 2012.
American Friends of Coubertin is accepting applications for 2012-13. The fellowships cover expenses and a stipend, and are available to qualified young craftspeople in stone, wood, and metal.
Sep 2010
American Friends of Coubertin sends the first young American craftsman for a year’s study and intensive training in France
In September, American Friends of Coubertin is sending its first American fellow to Coubertin, the highly-regarded French center of intensive training in stone, wood, and metal crafts that executes work for the Palace at Versailles and for major corporate and private connoisseurs throughout the world.
The recently organized association, based in Chicago, raises funds to send promising young American craftsmen to train with European masters in in these ancient arts and crafts at the Coubertin Foundation, near Paris. The fellowships provide an expense paid year to qualified workers where they will rigorously train in their crafts and alternate with extensive classroom work.
The Coubertin Foundation has been operating for 50 years, but heretofore all the fellows were from France and other European countries. American Friends of Coubertin seeks to provide American craftsmen with this unique opportunity. For the first time this year, applications were solicited, received and from young American craftsmen and women. The first fellow is Nick Esposito, a woodworker from California. Esposito will spend the 2010-11 academic year in Paris. Prior to his arrival at Coubertin he has taken a French language immersion course.
The fellowship covers all expenses and provides a stipend.