Artist Trust Fellowship Awards are merit-based awards of $10,000 to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and ability residing in Washington State.
Donor Name: Artist Trust
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 11/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
These unrestricted awards are open to artists of all disciplines and are given annually to 8+ artists of in recognition of artistic excellence and dedication to their practice. In addition to the Artist Trust Fellowship Awards are:
- Artist Trust Fellowship Award for Black Artists: The Fellowship Award for Black Artists is an unrestricted award of $10,000 for Washington State artists who identify as Black/African/African American. All artists who identify as Black, African, and/or African American will have to opt into being considered for this award with a completed Fellowship Award application.
- Greg Kucera And Larry Yocom Fellowship Award: The Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom Fellowship Award is an unrestricted award of $10,000 to a visual artist of any background residing in Washington State. Artists will have to opt into being considered for this award with a completed Fellowship Award application.
- Lillian Miller Foundation Fellowship for Trans and Indigiqueer: ARTISTS The Lillian Miller Foundation Fellowship Award for Trans and Indigiqueer Artists is an unrestricted award of $10,000 for Washington State artists of all disciplines who self-identify as trans in its most inclusive sense. This may include transgender, indigiqueer, Two-Spirit, genderqueer, or nonbinary people, and anyone whose gender identity is nonconforming and/or different from their gender assigned at birth. Artists will have to opt into being considered for this award with a completed Fellowship Award application.
Artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQIA+, living with/having disabilities, and/or living in rural communities are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants with intersectional identities are encouraged to apply to all of Fellowships available to them.
Disciplinary Categories
Disciplinary categories may include the following practices:
- Literary Arts: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental/Hybrid Works, Poetry, Graphic Novels, Zines.
- Media Arts: Animation, Augmented Reality, Film, Immersive Audio and Video Works, Podcasts, Screenplays, Sound Art, Teleplays, Video Art, Virtual Reality, Web-based Art.
- Performing Arts: Costume Design, Dance, Music, Music Composition, Musical Theater, Performance Art, Playwriting, Puppetry, Set Design, Sound Design, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theater, Traditional/Folk Performance.
- Visual Arts: BioArt, Craft, Digital Arts, Drawing, Ecological Art, Environmental Design, Furniture Art, Illustration, Installation, Interactive Installation and Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Public Art, Sculpture, Traditional/Folk Art.
Eligibility Information
The 2025 Fellowship Awards will be open to artists residing in Washington State working in all disciplines.
Applicants Must Be:
- 18 years of age or older;
- Washington State residents at the time of application and payment;
- Individual artists (or artist teams): those who are the originators of works of art.
Applicants Must Not Be:
- Fellowship recipients from 2017–2024 (this includes recipients of the Lillian Miller Foundation Fellowship Award, the Fellowship Award for Black Artists, and the Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom Fellowship);
- Previous recipients of two or more Fellowship Awards in a lifetime;
- Previous recipients of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist or Arts Innovator Awards;
- Recipients of another Artist Trust grant in 2025;
- Graduate or undergraduate matriculated students enrolled in any degree program at the deadline date and the time of payment (March 2025);
- Applying on behalf of a company, nonprofit, organization, fiscal sponsorship, or community group;
- Current Artist Trust staff, Board of Trustees, honorary committee member, current Fellowship panelists, or their immediate family.
For more information, visit Artist Trust.
