Deadline: 9-Jun-21
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the Canadian Women Artists’ Award – Visual Arts to provide financial support to emerging, female-identifying artists working in any discipline.
The award is not a project grant, and should be used in any manner the recipient deems necessary to further their artistic goals. It is supported by funding granted to NYFA by the Canadian Women’s Club (CWC) of New York as a way to continue its philanthropic work when it disbanded.
Categories
- Crafts/Sculpture: This category accepts work in all forms of craft, including ceramics, glass, wood, metal, fiber, textiles, and mixed media. This category accepts work in all forms of sculpture, including kinetic works and installations.
- Interdisciplinary Work: This category accepts submissions of work that integrate knowledge and methods from different disciplines within a single piece or body of work. This work may draw on traditions from the visual arts, especially those with a performative, political and/or social aspect.
- Painting: This category accepts work that involves painting of any kind upon any surface. However, artists who make engravings, etchings, lithographs, prints, serigraphs, woodcuts, and drawings should apply in the Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts category–not Painting.
- Photography: This category accepts work in traditional and experimental photography or any work in which photography or photographic techniques are pivotal, if not exclusive.
- Printmaking/Drawing: This category includes work in visual media other than painting, including artist’s books, aquatints, collages, engravings, etchings, lithographs, monotypes, prints, serigraphs, woodcuts, and drawings. Artists whose work involves painting only, including watercolorists, should apply to the Painting category in the next cycle. Artists whose work involves the computer as primary medium should apply in the Digital/Electronic Arts category.
Award Information
- Grant range up to $5,000.
Eligible Discipline – Visual Arts
- Crafts/Sculpture
- Interdisciplinary Work
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking/Drawing
Eligibility Criteria
The Canadian Women Artists’ Award is open to women-identifying artists who are:
- Canadian citizens, and able to provide proof of citizenship with legal documentation upon receipt of the award.
- Between the ages of 25 and 40 by the application deadline.
- Current residents of New York state.
- Applying in only one of the eligible discipline categories.
- The originators of the work, i.e. not awarded to interpretative artists.
- Not previous recipients of the Canadian Women Artists’ Award.
- Not a NYFA employee, member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, and/or an immediate family member of any of the above.
For more information, visit https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/canadian-women-artists-award/application-guidelines-2/