The Individual Artist Fellowships (Fellowships) are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals.
Donor Name: New Jersey State Council on the Arts
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 07/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $4,000 – $32,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
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.
Mid Atlantic Arts administers the application submission, review, and post-award process on behalf of New Jersey State Council on the Arts through an ongoing partnership.
Categories
- Film/Video
- This category accepts all genres of film and video as well as any other time-based work produced by recording visual images.
- Digital/Electronic
- This category accepts time-based, interactive, or kinetic work where technology is pivotal to the meaning and/or presentation of the work such as electronic installations, virtual and augmented reality, internet projects, and other emerging forms. Film/video and responsive audio components which are incorporated into a larger installation work is also accepted in this category.
- Interdisciplinary
- This category accepts work which is created by combining two or more Fellowship disciplines. The category is intended for work which would not otherwise be appropriate for review in any of the individual Fellowship disciplines due to the interdisciplinary nature of the work. Mixed media work that is primarily one medium, or work where each disciplinary component could be performed or exhibited independently should NOT be submitted in this category.
- Painting
- This category accepts all forms of painting including watercolor, acrylic, gouache, oil, tempera, encaustic, mural/fresco, graffiti, and paintings which incorporate mixed media.
- Prose
- This category accepts all forms of fiction, literary nonfiction, and other creative prose including novels, novellas, short stories, essays, criticism, journalism, and biography. Technical writing is not accepted.
- Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
- This category accepts all forms of drawing, printmaking, etching, collage, illustration, installations in which printmaking or drawing techniques are pivotal, and other visual 2-dimensional media other than painting. Book art and examples of artistic bookmaking are also eligible in this category. Artist catalogues and literary books are not accepted. Other sculptural forms constructed of paper should be submitted in the Sculpture category.
Funding Information
Fellowship awards have ranged in the past from $4,000 – $32,000. 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.
Grant Period
Fellowship grants available through this application are for the period January 1 through December 31, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- 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 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, or 2019 are not eligible to apply for the current year. NOTE: This restriction does not apply to artists who received a Finalist Award.
- 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 Fellowships.
