The More Art’s year-long Engaging Artists Fellowship is designed to help emerging NYC artists and community organizers develop and sustain a socially engaged and public art practice.
Donor Name: More Art
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 04/09/2026
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Through mentorship, peer exchange, workshops and artist talks responsive to the cohort’s interests, and access to programming opportunities across New York City, Fellows deepen their work within a collaborative learning environment. This laboratory-style framework brings together 6–8 emerging and underrepresented artists to engage critically with the history and evolving vitality of public and socially engaged art while strengthening and expanding their own work.
The Fellowship brings together a cohort of 6–8 artists who engage through a hybrid model of virtual and in-person gatherings, with an emphasis on in person participation to cultivate a shared, collective learning environment.
Each Fellow will receive monthly 1-to-1 individualized mentorship sessions with More Art staff. Additionally, the Fellowship Leader will facilitate monthly generative workshops, invited artist talks, discussions, and collaborative feedback sessions, tailored to the practices and needs of the cohort. The program will close with culminating presentations by each Fellow, public or otherwise, of or about work developed over the course of the program.
Funding Information
At the end of the year, Fellows can expect to receive a small stipend of at least $750 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Engaging Artists Fellowship offers insights and strategies to collaborate with communities, rebuild and shape the society, and build sustainable careers. More Art welcomes applications from NYC artists of all disciplines, including but not limited to: visual artists, performers, choreographers, designers, and new media artists. Currently enrolled undergraduate students may not apply. Collective applications are welcome. An interest in socially engaged practice is crucial.
- The Fellowship is a program for incubation, experimentation, collaboration, and implementation stages of early socially engaged public art projects. They understand and encourage artists who see the combination of socially engaged work and creative practice as a long-term commitment no matter how much of a body of work they’ve generated previously.
Qualifications
- Interest in More Art’s work and eagerness to learn (no prior experience in public art or socially engaged art necessary!)
- Willingness to present, support, and attend work produced in community and public settings, as opposed to galleries and museums
- Strong commitment to More Art’s values, including but not limited to social justice and public engagement, inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and collaboration
- Commitment to intersectional thinking and artmaking
- Willingness to act with care and respect toward all collaborators, including More Art staff, other Fellows, and community members
- Eagerness to contribute to a nurturing environment with and for Fellows
- Interest in establishing and/or sustaining partnerships with community-based organizations, advocacy groups, agencies, neighborhoods, places, individuals and/or groups of New Yorkers
- Belief that art and artists are integral to empowering social justice movements by creatively illuminating social issues, engaging new audiences in activism, and catalyzing public discourse.
Requirements
- Over 18 years of age
- Not enrolled in a degree program during the time of the Fellowship
- NYC-based during the time of Fellowship
- They ask that Fellows not commit to more than 2 other residencies and/or fellowships during their Fellowship year with More Art to avoid scheduling conflicts and over-commitment.
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