The Rasmuson Foundation offers one $50,000 Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of an Alaskan’s creative excellence over multiple decades and significant artistic accomplishments.
Donor Name: Rasmuson Foundation
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 12/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $40,000 to $50,000
Details:
These artists have chosen to make their lives and careers in Alaska, thereby making their state a more culturally rich place to live. First and foremost, they have made creatively incisive art reflecting their particular and extraordinary perspective. Award recipients will most likely be full-time, professional artists, and will be recognized by peers and experts across the state as among the most highly accomplished in their field.
Distinguished Artist Award recipients have created an extensive independent body of work representing life-long investigation and development of their personal creativity. They must have decades of experience creating art and contributing to advancement of arts and culture in Alaska.
Funding Information
$40,000 to $50,000
Who May Apply?
- Artists may apply or be nominated for a Distinguished Artist Award if they meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Artist must be a full-time Alaska resident and have lived in the state for the past five years at the time of the nomination and remain a resident, living in Alaska, for the duration of the grant period.
- Artist must have multiple decades of experience creating art and contributing to advancement of arts and culture in Alaska and must be established in an artistic career. An established artist has created an extensive independent body of work representing a life-long investigation and development of their personal creativity. They demonstrate a high-aesthetic level of artistic ability with a strong consistency of expression over a professional art career.
- Artist must currently be producing work.
- Artists are NOT eligible to apply or be nominated if they are:
- Individuals whose work or project is primarily of a research, scholarly or commercial nature.
- Individual Artist Award recipients who received their award in 2020, 2021 or 2022, or who are previous Distinguished Artist Award recipients.
Criteria
Selection criteria for awards include:
- The impact the artist has had on arts and culture in Alaska.
- The quality of artistic work over their decadeslong career.
- The artist’s creative accomplishments and the promise of future artistic excellence.
- Eligible artistic disciplines: Choreography/Dance, Crafts, Folk and Traditional Arts, Literary Arts/ Scriptworks, Media Arts, Multidiscipline, Music/ Music Composition, New Genre, Performance Art, Presentation/Interpretation and/or Visual Arts.
- A nominated artist’s work must be culturally responsible and not contain elements of cultural appropriation, defined as the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or societyby members of another and typically more dominant people or society.
For more information, visit Rasmuson Foundation.
