Deadline: 26-Jan-22
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship for artists living in New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein.
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development. This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete.
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships are administered with leadership support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Award Information
- The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant.
Categories
The following categories will be reviewed:
- Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design: This category includes environmental design; the making of places, spaces, constructions, and landscapes; traditional and experimental forms of architecture (built or unbuilt); functional art and design objects; and/or work made for hire.
- NYFA recognizes that architecture is typically a collaborative process, but applicants should only submit work for which they are able to demonstrate they played the primary design role.
- Choreography: This category accepts work in all choreographic styles, including mixed-media or multi-genre performance works in which choreography and/or organized movement is primary.
- Music/Sound: This category accepts submissions from composers working in any and all styles of music including vocal and instrumental artists, soundscapes, and experimental forms.
- Work by librettists and lyricists are not reviewed in this category; librettists should apply in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Songwriters and collaborators who write both music and lyrics are welcome to apply.
- Photography: This category accepts work in traditional and experimental photography or any work in which photography or photographic techniques are pivotal, if not exclusive.
- Playwriting/Screenwriting: This category accepts work in the writing of stageplays, screenplays, teleplays, libretti, radioplays, and audiodramas.
- While librettists may apply in this category, no audiotapes are accepted in this category. Composers of music theater works are advised to apply separately in the Music/Sound category.
Eligibility Criteria
- 25 years or older
- Current residents of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located in New York State
- Must have maintained New York State residency, and/or residency in one of the Indian Nations located therein, for at least the last two consecutive years (2020 & 2021)
- Cannot be enrolled in a degree-seeking program of any kind
- Are the originators of the work, i.e. choreographers or playwrights, not interpretive artists such as dancers or actors
- Did not receive a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in any discipline in the past five consecutive years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021
- Cannot submit any work samples that have been previously awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
- While collaborating artists are eligible to apply, the total number of collaborators cannot exceed three
- Are not a current NYFA employee or have been in the last 12 months, a member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, immediate family member of any of the aforementioned, or an immediate family member of a 2021-2022 panelist
- Artists that have been awarded five NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships receive Emeritus status and are no longer eligible for the award.
For more information, visit https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/artist-fellowships/
