Tennessee Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF) provides monetary awards to outstanding professional artists (i.e. those individuals who by education, experience, or natural talent engage in a particular art form or discipline) who live and work in Tennessee. To qualify, an artist must be financially compensated for his or her work, and this compensation must be a significant source of support for their livelihood.
Donor Name: Tennessee Arts Commission
State: Tennessee
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/24/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Details:
Fellowships provide those individuals who by education, experience, or natural talent engage in a particular art form or discipline, and live and work in Tennessee. To qualify, an artist must be financially compensated for his or her work, and this compensation must be a significant source of support for their livelihood.
No matching funds are required and no specific project has to be carried out with the funds. The Commission anticipates that each fellowship will be awarded $5,000.
Categories
Accepted categories for FY 2023:
- Visual Art (two categories):
- Three-Dimensional Work
- Mural Arts
- Craft
- Media (two categories):
- Film
- Photography
- Dance (two categories):
- Choreography
- Solo Dance Performance
- Music (two categories):
- Solo Instrumental Performance (classical or jazz)
- Solo Vocal Performance (opera or musical theater)
- Theater (two categories):
- Production Design (set, lighting, or costume)
- Directing
- Literary Arts (four categories):
- Creative Nonfiction
- Fiction
- Children’s Literature/Young Adult Literature
- Poetry
Eligibility Criteria
- Fellowship applicants must be professional practicing artists of exceptional talent working in their chosen discipline.
- Fellowship applicants must be at least 18 years of age and be legal residents of Tennessee with a Tennessee mailing address.
- Applicants must have resided in Tennessee for the past three consecutive years.
- Proof of residency will require a valid Tennessee voter registration card or a legal Tennessee driver’s license.
- Applicants may be requested to submit a copy of their most recently filed Federal Income Tax Form 1040 if there is a question concerning legal residency.
- Individuals may apply in only one fellowship category each fiscal year.
- Those not eligible to apply include: past fellowship and partial fellowship recipients, minors (individuals under 18 years of age), full-time students (elementary, secondary, college, or university), full-time State of Tennessee employees (other than instructors on the faculties of state-supported educational institutions), Commission or staff members or members of their families.
- The Tennessee Arts Commission reserves the right to deny any application if the activity or work samples are outside of the scope or spirit of the agency’s mission, purpose, or this grant program.
- Debarment and Suspension. Awardees are required to sign contracts certifying to the best of their knowledge and belief, that they are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by any federal or state department or agency.
For more information, visit Individual Artist Fellowship.
