Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship.
Donor Name: Arkansas Heritage
State: Arkansas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 02/05/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Individual Artist Fellowship program annually awards to up to 18 creatives $5,000 each in six categories. These grants are made directly to individual creatives who live and work in Arkansas. This grant is for already finished, not proposed, projects.
Individual Artist Fellowship are Arkansas creatives who use original, expressive, innovative or artistic methods to create. Fellows make creative works in all genres in multiple ways. The definition is broad but includes culture bearers, makers, storytellers, teaching artists, songwriters, visual artists, actors, filmmakers, musicians and writers.
Categories
- Multisensory Art
- Community Engagement Art
- Contemporary Craft: Glass and/or Pottery
- Performance Art: Original High Fashion or Costume Design
- Visual Arts: Documentary, Docuseries, Minidocumentary
- Literary Arts: Memoir or Novel
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible for this grant if:
- You are 21 years old or older.
- You live in Arkansas and have lived in Arkansas for at least one year upon application.
- You are an individual creative who uses their own, original works in a creative field in the current categories. Categories change annually.
- You are not eligible if:
- You do not live in Arkansas.
- You have not lived in Arkansas a full year as of Dec. 01, 2023.
- You are a nonprofit, a business or a group, and not an individual.
- You previously earned a Fellowship award.
- You entered more than one category for the Fellowship award this cycle year.
- You are proposing a project, instead of showcasing your current work.
- You do not have a social security number or an alternative ID for legal residency.
- Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism staff, their immediate family members and members of the Arkansas Arts Council advisory board are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Arkansas Heritage.
