Deadline: 25-Jan-21
The Tennessee Arts Commission is seeking applications for its Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF) to provide monetary awards to outstanding professional artists (i.e. those individuals who by education, experience, or natural talent engage in a particular art form or discipline) who live and work in Tennessee.
Fellowships provide those individuals who by education, experience, or natural talent engage in a particular art form or discipline, and live and work in Tennessee. To qualify, an artist must be financially compensated for his or her work, and this compensation must be a significant source of support for their livelihood.
Accepted Categories for FY 2022
- Visual Art: Two-Dimensional Work or Mural Arts;
- Craft;
- Media: Film or Photography;
- Dance: Choreography or Solo Dance;
- Music: Composition;
- Theater: Playwriting;
- Literary Arts: Fiction, Children’s / Young Adult Literature, or Poetry.
Benefits
- No matching funds are required and no specific project has to be carried out with the funds.
- The Commission anticipates that each fellowship will be awarded $5,000.
- In a year, the Tennessee Arts Commission may award up to two (2) fellowships each in Craft, Media, Visual Art, Dance, Music, and Theater, as well as three (3) in the Literary category.
Eligibility Criteria
- Fellowship applicants must be professional practising artists of exceptional talent working in their chosen discipline.
- Fellowship applicants must be at least 18 years of age and be legal residents of Tennessee with a Tennessee mailing address.
- Applicants must have resided in Tennessee for the past three consecutive years.
- Proof of residency will require a valid Tennessee voter registration card or a legal Tennessee driver’s license.
- Applicants may be requested to submit a copy of their most recently filed Federal Income Tax Form 1040 if there is a question concerning legal residency.
- Individuals may apply in only one fellowship category each fiscal year.
- Those not eligible to apply include: past fellowship and partial fellowship recipients, minors (individuals under 18 years of age), full-time students (elementary, secondary, college, or university), full-time State of Tennessee employees (other than instructors on the faculties of state-supported educational institutions), Commission or staff members or members of their families.
For more information, visit https://tnartscommission.org/grants/individual/