The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (the State Arts Council) is a division of the New Jersey Department of State, is seeking applications for its 2023 Individual Artist Fellowships.
Donor Name: New Jersey State Council on the Arts
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/14/2022
Size of the Grant: $4,000 – $26,500
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Individual Artist Fellowships (Fellowships) are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals. Fellows are selected through a competitive evaluation process by independent panels of peer reviewers. Panelists review the applications anonymously and score the work based solely on the artistic excellence of the work submitted as part of the application. Fellowships are not need or project-based.
Categories Offered for the 2023 Fellowships
Grant Amounts
Fellowship awards have ranged in the past from $4,000 – $26,500. The amount of the award is determined annually by the State Arts Council based on funding provided through the New Jersey Hotel/Motel tax. Fellowships are awarded to applicants who demonstrate the highest artistic talent, with no cap or quota per artistic discipline. In 2022, from of a total of 512 eligible applications, 85 Fellowships were awarded in four categories. Grant awards totaled $824,950. Awards are issued pending the availability of funds.
Grant Period
Fellowship grants available through this application are for the period January 1 through December 31, 2023.
Who May Apply
- Artists must be permanent residents of the State of New Jersey. The applicant must be a current, permanent New Jersey resident at the time of application (the date the application is submitted) and at the time of award (March 2023).
- Age 18 or older.
- The applicant must be the artist whose original work is represented in the work samples.
Who May Not Apply
- Artists who received a Fellowship in any category in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, or 2018 are not eligible to apply for the current year.
- Applicants may not be matriculated students in any graduate, undergraduate, or high school program at the time of application and award. Fellowships may not provide funding for scholarships or academic study in pursuit of a degree.
- Collaborating New Jersey artists are not eligible to submit a joint application for collaborative work.
- The applicant artist must have sole creative control over all work submitted to the Fellowships program under their name.
For more information, visit Individual Artist Fellowship.
