Deadline: 14-Feb-23
Nominations are now open for Individual Artist Awards to provide artists living and working in Alaska the resources to concentrate and reflect on their work, to immerse themselves in a creative endeavor, and to experiment, explore and develop their artistry more fully.
It is their hope that these investments result in substantial contributions to Alaska’s culture, the vibrancy of their communities and to art itself.
Award Information
The awards types are
- Project Awards: Awards of $10,000 for emerging, mid-career, and mature artists in all disciplines for specific, short-term projects that have a clear benefit to the artist and the development of his/her work. Approximately 25 Project Awards are granted annually. Project Awards are available in all 11 of the artistic disciplines listed below in the Fellowships section;
- Fellowships: $25,000 awards for mid-career or mature artists to focus their energy and attention for a one-year period on developing their creative work. The Fellowship program awards grants in 11 artistic disciplines that rotate on a two-year cycle. Approximately 10 Fellowships are awarded each year.
Career Stages
The Foundation defines artist career stages as follows
- Emerging Artists are those in the early stages of their professional careers. Their work has begun to take shape, and their output contains the seeds of further artistic development.
- Mid-Career Artists are those who have created an independent body of work and have made a recognized contribution to their discipline through public presentation. They have steadily progressed as an artist and are challenging themselves to explore other avenues of expression as well as deepening the modalities that brought them to this artistic stage.
- Established Artists are those who have created an extensive independent body of work representing a lifelong investigation and maturation of their personal creativity. They demonstrate a highly developed aesthetic and artistic ability with consistency of expression throughout a long professional arts career.
Benefits of Award
- Award recipients receive a grant as well as professional development and promotion of their work. In 2023, professional development will be provided by the Anchorage Museum to focus on continued skill development in marketing, finances, creation of work samples and more;
- The Foundation also promotes artists through social media.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant, including all group collaborators, must be full-time Alaska residents for the previous two years and live in the state at the time of application. Awardees must maintain residency in Alaska for the duration of the grant period. If selected to receive an award, applicants and all group collaborators will be required to submit two proofs of Alaska state residency. Contact staff in advance of applying if you have questions about your residency status;
- The applicant, including all group collaborators, must be at least 18 years or older at the time of application;
- Applicants must currently be producing work that is artist-driven;
- Past Individual Artist Award recipients who received their award prior to 2020 and have no overdue final reports.
Artists are not eligible to apply if they are
- Students enrolled in any degree-seeking program related to the arts at any educational level, and/or submitting artwork that was completed while enrolled in a degree-seeking program under the supervision of an instructor;
- A current board member, committee member, staff member or a member of their immediate families, or current consultant, contractor, or panelist for Rasmuson Foundation;
- Individuals or groups whose work or project is primarily of academic or scholarly research, or is clientdriven (work done under the direction or under contract and paid for by a client, a firm, governmental agency, a school, a business or otherwise);
- Individual Artist Award recipients who received an award in 2020 -2022, including all collaborators of an artist group;
- Not a full-time Alaska resident or present in Alaska at time of application. Please thoroughly read the State guidelines on establishing and maintaining Alaska residency. Please note, applications will not advance if Alaska residency is not confirmed.
For more information, visit Rasmuson Foundation.
