Deadline: 15-Jun-21
The Artadia is currently accepting nominations for the 2021 Artadia Awards to provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Artadia is a non-profit grantmaker and nationwide community of visual artists, curators, and patrons. They elevate the careers of artists at pivotal moments in their practice through a proven combination of recognition, grantmaking, community support, and advocacy.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc. Artadia does not fund filmmakers making films for distribution in cinematic venues, or those working in choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context.
- Applicants must be currently living and working within the city’s eligible counties and resided there for at least two years prior to the application deadline.
- Not currently be enrolled in an art-related degree program, nor be planning to attend an art-related degree program in the coming year.
- Not be related to Artadia staff or directors in any way.
- Have not received an Artadia Award or an award from The Art Council for $5,000 or more in the past.
- If you are enrolled in a long-term artist residency program, please note you are only eligible to apply in the Award city where you permanently reside. Additionally, you must make yourself available to meet with jurors for a 45 minute virtual studio visit should you be chosen as a Finalist.
- Unless applying as a collaborative, you must be the sole conceptual author of the artwork submitted in the application; if there are collaborators that share authorship of submitted work they must be clearly identified and credited.
Process
- OPEN CALL: The Artadia application is open for one month in each program city, is free to apply and open-call.
- APPLICATION REVIEW: A jury of three curators assembled by Artadia, including one locally based curator, reviews all applications and determines a short list of six Finalists.
- ROUND TWO STUDIO VISITS: A second jury, assembled by Artadia, made up of one juror from the application review and one new juror conducts virtual studio visits with each Finalist for 45 minutes.
- AWARDEES IDENTIFIED: Following the studio visits, the second round jury will designate three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $10,000, as well as access to the Artadia Network. Awardees are determined based on the sole discretion of the jury. Marciano Artadia Awardee receives unrestricted funds of $25,000.
Deadlines
- 21c Louisville – June 15, 2021
- San Francisco – July 1, 2021
For more information, visit https://artadia.org/awards/