2022 Performing Arts Fellowship (US)

Deadline: 07-Mar-22

Applications are now open for the Performing Arts Fellowship to support professional and committed Utah artists reaching pivotal moments in their artistic practice, as well as their career advancement and growth.

Background And Purpose

• The Utah Division of Arts & Museums Fellowship Program began in 1986 with the Visual Arts Fellowship. In 2019 the program was expanded to include Performing Arts.
• The Fellowship is awarded to professional performing artists in Utah to acknowledge their artistic excellence and to encourage their ongoing career development. This fellowship is awarded based on review by a prominent performing arts professionals outside of Utah.
• Utah Arts & Museums is the oldest publicly-funded state arts agency in the nation, with beginnings legislated in 1899.
• From its inception, the performing and visual arts have been an integral component in fulfilling the goals of the agency to increase awareness and understanding of the public value of arts and culture, as well as invest in communities by strengthening the arts and cultural infrastructure.
• The tradition of recognition and support of excellence continues for individual artists through the Fellowship Program.

Funding Information

• The 2022 Performing Arts Fellowship will award six unrestricted $5,000 fellowships. These unrestricted cash awards allow artists to decide how the funding will best support their lives and work.

Eligibility Criteria

• Performing arts disciplines rotate every three years between dance, music, and theatre. The 2022 fellowship focus is theatre.
• Artists practicing in theatre arts such as acting, directing, dramaturgy, experimental, performance art (theatre), playwriting, storytelling, and traditional arts are eligible.
• The performing arts must be a primary, significant, and integral component of the work. Artists whose primary practice is visual arts may be eligible for the Visual Arts Fellowship. Designers can apply for the Design Arts Juried Exhibition.
• Applicants must meet all of the following requirements to apply:
  • Must be age 27 or older at the time of deadline.
  • Must be a legal Utah resident for a minimum of two years prior to application.
  • Must have a legal right to receive taxable income in the United States.
  • Previous Performing Arts Fellowship recipients may not apply.
  • Individuals enrolled in any degree-granting program are not eligible to apply.
  • The Fellowship is given to an individual. Artist teams/groups are not eligible to apply.
  • Immediate families, board or committee members, and employees of the Utah Division of Arts & Museums are not eligible.
  • If an applicant is a theatre teacher/professor, they may include information about teaching but must also include information about work outside of their teaching role

For more information, visit https://artsandmuseums.utah.gov/performing-arts-fellowship/