Deadline: 14-Jul-22
The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is pleased to announce the 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship for individual artists residing in New Jersey to encourage and sustain these artists’ pursuit of artistic excellence.
Individual Artist Fellowships (Fellowships) are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals. Fellows are selected through a competitive evaluation process by independent panels of peer reviewers.
Categories
- Choreography: This category accepts choreography in all styles of dance, as well as other types of artistic performance with coordinated movement.
- Crafts: This category accepts all forms of functional and nonfunctional craft objects including those made of ceramics, glass, wood, metal, fiber, textiles, and recycled materials.
- Music Composition: This category accepts composition in all styles of classical, popular, jazz, hiphop, and folk music, noise and experimental sound, and original music composed for theater.
- Photography: This category accepts analogue and digital photography, as well as works where photographic techniques are pivotal.
- Poetry: This category accepts all forms of written poetry.
- Playwriting/Screenwriting: This category accepts scripts written for stage or screen.
- Sculpture: This category accepts all forms of static and kinetic sculpture, as well as installations and three-dimensional public art.
Award Information
- Fellowship awards have ranged in the past from $4,000 – $26,500. The amount of the award is determined annually by the State Arts Council based on funding provided through the New Jersey Hotel/Motel tax. Fellowships are awarded to applicants who demonstrate the highest artistic talent, with no cap or quota per artistic discipline. In 2022, from of a total of 512 eligible applications, 85 Fellowships were awarded in four categories. Grant awards totaled $824,950. Awards are issued pending the availability of funds.
- Fellowship grants available through this application are for the period January 1 through December 31, 2023
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists must be permanent residents of the State of New Jersey. The applicant must be a current, permanent New Jersey resident at the time of application (the date the application is submitted) and at the time of award (March 2023).
- Age 18 or older.
- The applicant must be the artist whose original work is represented in the work samples.
Ineligible
- Artists who received a Fellowship in any category in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, or 2018 are not eligible to apply for the current year.
- Applicants may not be matriculated students in any graduate, undergraduate, or high school program at the time of application and award. Fellowships may not provide funding for scholarships or academic study in pursuit of a degree.
- Collaborating New Jersey artists are not eligible to submit a joint application for collaborative work. The applicant artist must have sole creative control over all work submitted to the Fellowships program under their name.
Restrictions
- Eligible applicants may submit one application in a single category per year.
- All work samples must have been produced within the eligible timeframe outlined by discipline in the proceeding “Application Requirements by Category” section of these guidelines.
- Work completed while the applicant was a matriculated student in a graduate, undergraduate, or high school program is not considered eligible.
- Only completed work may be submitted. Works in progress and project proposals are not considered eligible. For the purposes of this program, “complete” is considered to be the point at which the work is ready for public presentation, unless otherwise noted.
For more information, visit https://www.midatlanticarts.org/grants-programs/grants-for-artists/#state-fellowships
