2012 Artist Trust Fellowships: Craft • Literature • Media • Music
Artist Trust, Seattle, WA

Deadline: February 26, 2012, 10:59pm





Artist Trust Fellowships are $7,500 unrestricted awards. They are designed to recognize artistic achievement, dedication to an artistic discipline and potential for further professional development. Fellowships are not project grants. In 2012, 16 artists working in Craft, Literary, Media and Music Arts will receive Fellowships....

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Bush Artists Fellowships
Bush Foundation
St. Paul, MN




Each year, up to 15 artists receive unrestricted grants of $48,000 that are distributed over 12 to 24 months. In addition, fellows receive up to $2,000 to plan and implement an individual communications strategy. Fellowships begin with a two-day orientation retreat followed by informal artist gatherings....

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Fellowships for Visual Artists
California Community Foundation
Los Angeles, CA


The California Community Foundation will award one-year fellowships to outstanding emerging and mid-career artists working in the visual arts. This year, fellows will also participate in a special retreat and convenings designed to build an artist community and strengthen business and other professional development skills....

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Fellowship
for Women Artists With Cancer

Capelli D'Angeli Foundation
Canton, CT


Capelli d’Angeli Foundation is offering a limited number of fellowship grants of up to $500
each for individual women artists who are in treatment or are survivors of cancer at any stageand creating art in the form of painting, sculpture, photography (of all types), and mixed
media. At present we cannot accept....


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Visual Artists Fellowship
The Camargo Foundation
Cassis, France



The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural residential center for scholars pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences related to French and francophone cultures as well as for composers, writers, and visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, video artists, and new media artists) pursuing creative projects. The Foundation's campus includes twelve furnished apartments....

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Fellowship In Visual Arts
Cintas Foundation
New York, NY
Since 1963, the Cintas Foundation has awarded over 300 fellowships in architecture, creative writing, music composition and the visual arts. In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the Cintas Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists. For the purpose of historical value and documentation, award recipients are encouraged to submit art work....

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The Evelyn Shapiro
Foundation Fellowship

The Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
The Clay Studio is pleased to offer the Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship,
a one year residency. The Fellowship provides:
• a 180 square foot studio space
• a monthly stipend of $500.00 • a materials and firing allowance
• access to gas and electric kilns
• access to glaze materials....


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Individual Artists Fellowships
Delaware Division of the Arts
Wilmington, DE


Individual Artist Fellowships provide funding to Delaware creative artists working in the visual, performing, media, folk, and literary arts. Fellowships are designed to enable recipients to purchase equipment and materials, allocate working time, or fulfill other needs that will allow them to advance in their careers. Fellowship Amount: $3000 or $6000....

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Seven-Month Visual Arts
Fellowship Program

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
The Fine Arts Work Center offers a unique residency for writers and visual artists in the crucial early stages of their careers. Located in Provincetown, an area with a long history as an arts colony, the Work Center provides seven-month fellowships to twenty fellows each year in the form of living/work space and a modest monthly stipend. Residencies run from....

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The United States and
Canadian Fellowship Competition

John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation,
New York, NY


Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. Candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation in order to be considered in either....

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Fellowship Awards
Kala Art Institute
Berkley, CA

Kala Art Institute's mission is to help artists sustain their creative efforts over time through its Artist-in- Residence and Fellowship Programs, and to increase appreciation of this work through exhibitions, public programming and educational efforts....

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Kresge Artist Fellowship
Kresge Arts In Detroit
College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI


Kresge Arts in Detroit provides significant financial support for 18 Kresge Artist Fellowships annually, each consisting of a $25,000 award and customized professional development opportunities for emerging and established metropolitan Detroit artists in the Literary, Performing and Visual Arts. The Kresge Artist Fellowships recognize 18 artists whose commitment to innovation and....

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McKnight Artists Fellowships
for the Visual Arts

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Support for individual artists has been a cornerstone of The McKnight Foundation's Arts program since it began in 1981. We believe that the arts cannot flourish or enhance community life without the ideas, energy, and drive of individual artists, and that artists cannot make these contributions without unfettered creative time. A fellowship can help an artist set aside periods of time for study....

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Artists Fellowships
Mississippi arts comission
Jackson, MI


MAC's Artist Fellowship program is focused on honoring Mississippi artists who demonstrate the ability to create exemplary work in their chosen field. The agency awards fellowships of up to $5,000 in several categories each year. The program does not require a cash match. Professional artists living and working in the state are eligible to apply...

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Fellowships
Nebraska Arts Council
Omaha, NE


The IAF program rotates among various artistic disciplines, including Visual Arts, Literature, and Filmmaking and Performing Arts. The 2011 Performing Arts/Filmmaking application information will be posted on this page in August, 2010. The Visual Arts discipline is the focus for the award year 2010, and includes the following media categories. Applicants apply in only one of the designated categories....

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Artist Fellowship Program
Nevada Arts Council
Carson City, NV

Fellowship Amounts:
$5000 Grants
$500 Honorable mention of exceptional original work

Created in 1988, the Artist Fellowship Program encourages the pursuit of artistic excellence and provides financial support to Nevada meritorious artists for career advancement. Twelve-month Fellowships can provide time, supplies and materials, and living expenses for artists working in the visual, literary and performing arts. By acknowledging outstanding artistic accomplishment, the program promotes public awareness and appreciation of the role of the artist in our society....

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Individual Artist Fellowship
Regional Arts & Culture Council
Portland, OR

The Regional Arts & Culture Council recognizes individual artistic achievement and excellence through its annual Individual Artist Fellowship award. The Fellowship, which includes a cash award of $20,000, helps individual artists of high merit sustain or enhance their creative process. Fellowships are awarded in rotating disciplines that include Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Media Arts and Literature.The Fellowship Award will recognize individual artists in the....

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Artists Fellowships
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Providence, RI

Fellowships encourage the creative development of artists by enabling them to set aside time to pursue their work and achieve specific creative and career goals. Fellowships are highly competitive awards. Artists are encouraged to apply when they have created a substantial....

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Summer Fellowships
constance Saltonstall foundation
for the arts
Ithaca, NY


Artists and writers who are NYS residents are invited to apply for fellowships (i.e. month-long summer residencies) at the 200-acre Saltonstall Arts Colony in Ithaca, New York. There are five artists in each session: one photographer, one poet, one prose writer, two painters, sculptors or other visual artists. The Colony is located in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York. The Summer Fellowship competition is....

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Fellowships
The Six Points
New York, NY

The Six Points Fellowship supports individual artists in the New York area who want to develop new projects with a Jewish focus, theme or element. We believe that creative expression is essential to Jewish community, identity, and meaning and the Six Points Fellowship was created to support the artists who contribute to that process. The fellowship will accept artists working in visual arts, music, and performing arts....

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EAF: Emerging Artists Fellowship
Socrates Sculpture Park
Long Island City, NY

Emerging Artist Fellowship recipients are granted financial support in the amount of $5,000, a residency in the outdoor studio (beginning in March 2011), and access to facilities, materials, equipment and technical assistance to create a work for the annual Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Fellows are also given the administrative assistance to do additional fundraising for their project, procure in-kind support and pursue
future placement for their work.

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Visiting Artist Fellowship
Urban Glass, Brooklyn NY


UrbanGlass offers three Visiting Artist Fellowships to artists wishing to work in glass. Two fellowships are offered to Emerging Artists and one fellowship to an Established Artist. Fellowships are for an eight week period and include access to all areas of the Studio on a scheduled basis, technical support and materials as stipulated in the Fellowship Agreement. The Fellowship does not include....

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Full Fellowship Awards
Vermont Studio Center,
Johnson, VT

VSC awards a number of Full Fellowships for 4-week residencies throughout the year. Open to all artists and writers, the Full Fellowship application deadlines are February 15th, June 15th, and October 1st. In addition to VSC Full Fellowships, a variety of special fellowships are also available for full or partial funding....

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The Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts
WheatonArts and Cultural Center, Millville, NJ

The CGCA Fellowship Program is a professional program providing focused, self-directed artists with three-month and six-week fellowships. The CGCA program provides housing, the facilities, equipment and technical orientation within a respectful sanctuary if concentrated time. The CGCA Fellowship Program provides emerging and mid-career artistsunrestricted access to the facilities and materials necessary for blown, sculpted, cast and kiln formed glass....

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Studio, Ceramics And
Art-in-Education fellowships

Women's Studio Workshop
Rosendale, NY
Women's Studio Workshop Fellowship Opportunities are designed to provide concentrated work time for artists to explore new ideas in a dynamic and supportive community of women artists. ...The facilities feature complete studios in intaglio, silkscreen, hand papermaking, photography, letterpress, and ceramics. Women's Studio Workshop Fellowship Award recipients are selected through...

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Arist-in-Residence Fellowships
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Woodstock, NY

We are pleased to announce that the Byrdcliffe Artists In Residency Program has received a third grant to continue the Byrdcliffe Master Artist Program. The Byrdcliffe Master for 2010 is Joan Snyder. Each Fellow will have access to Joan for critiques, career opportunity discussions and to share insight and guidance during a four week residency....

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