Deadline: 1-Apr-21
The California Arts Council (CAC) is seeking applications for its Individual Artist Fellowships program to recognize, uplift, and celebrate California artists. Fellowships will support artists from a broad spectrum of artistic practices, backgrounds, geographies and communities, whose work addresses themes including but not limited to race, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
This program will support artists, 18 years of age and older, at key moments in their careers, elevating their capacity for continued contribution to the field and our state.
Benefits
The grant program identifies three career tiers at which artists may benefit from this support:
- CAC Emerging Artist Fellows – $5,000 per award (approximately 70 artists to be supported) Artists with between two and four years of artistic practice.
- CAC Established Artist Fellows – $10,000 per award (approximately 50 artists to be supported) Artists with between four and 10 years of artistic practice.
- CAC Legacy Artist Fellows – $50,000 per award (approximately 10 artists to be supported) Well-established artists with 10 or more years of artistic practice.
- Individuals may submit an application in one career tier only.
Eligibility Criteria
California-based artists, 18 years of age and older, working in any artistic discipline, who reside primarily in California and have a history of artistic practice in California, are eligible to apply. Applicants must comply with the requirements below. All applications must include the listed items at the time of submission in order to be reviewed, ranked, and considered for funding.
- Artist’s narrative – Applicants must provide a brief description of their background and focus, and a description of how the funds will support the artist’s professional practice.
- Artist work samples – Applicants must include examples of their work over the time period relative to the funding tier (three pieces for Emerging, six for Established, and 10 for Legacy artists).
- Letter of support or testimonial – Applicants must provide a written signed statement from an individual or organization familiar with their body of work that can substantiate the artist’s practice, relevance, and impact in their community.
- Support materials – Applicants must supply a resume or CV and up to two additional supporting documents such as press materials, flyers, brochures, programs, newsletters, and other marketing pieces generated within the past two years.
- Signatures on required attachments – Letters and other attachments requiring signatures must include completed digital or scanned signatures in order to be considered for funding.
For more information, visit https://arts.ca.gov/grant_program/individual-artists-fellowship/