Individual Artist Fellowships are awarded for artistic quality to Delaware creative artists working in the visual, performing, media, folk, and literary arts.
Donor Name: Delaware Division of the Arts
State: Delaware
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 08/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Fellowships are designed to enable recipients to purchase equipment and materials, allocate working time, or fulfill other needs that will allow them to advance their careers (excluding foreign travel and lobbying). Fellowship recipients are required to present examples of their work to the public during their Fellowship year.
The Fellowship program provides competitive grants in three categories with monetary awards of $5,000, $8,000, and $12,000 to Delaware artists. Fellowships are awarded for demonstrated creativity and skill in an art form with artistic quality as the primary determinant.
- Emerging Professional Fellowships in the amount of $5,000 are available to artists who have not yet established reputations in their fields. (Artists applying in a discipline that they teach at a degree or certificate-granting institution are ineligible to apply in the Emerging category and must apply in the Established category.)
- Established Professional Fellowships in the amount of $8,000 are available to artists who have significant achievements in their fields.
- A Masters Fellowship in the amount of $12,000 is available to artists that have received an Established Fellowship in the same discipline more than 7 years ago.
Disciplines
Twenty disciplines are offered in Fiscal Year 2026:
- Dance: Choreography
- Folk Art: Music
- Folk Art: Oral Literature
- Folk Art: Visual Arts
- Jazz: Composition
- Jazz: Performance
- Literature: Creative Nonfiction
- Literature: Fiction
- Literature: Playwriting
- Literature: Poetry
- Media Arts: Video/Film
- Music: Composition
- Music: Contemporary Performance (hip-hop, popular, R&B)
- Music: Solo Recital (classical)
- Visual Arts: Crafts
- Visual Arts: Painting
- Visual Arts: Photography
- Visual Arts: Sculpture
- Visual Arts: Works on Paper
- Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary (for visual artists whose practice includes multiple disciplines or media, and/or working with new technology).
Grant Period
January 1 – December 31, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a resident of Delaware for at least one year at the time of application. A legal resident possesses a valid Delaware driver’s license or DMV-issued identification card and files state income taxes in Delaware as a full-year resident. All awards are subject to verification of Delaware residency.
- Must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
- Must remain a Delaware resident during the grant period.
For more information, visit Delaware Division of the Arts.
