Submit Applications for 2024 Artist Trust Fellowship Awards – Washington

Artist Trust Fellowship Awards are merit-based awards of $10,000 to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and ability residing in Washington State.

Donor Name: Artist Trust

State: Washington

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Fellowship

Deadline: 11/06/2023

Size of the Grant: $10,000

Details:

These unrestricted awards are open to artists of all disciplines and are given annually to 8+ artists of in recognition of artistic excellence and dedication to their practice. This includes:

• Artist Trust Fellowship Award for Black Artists
  • The Fellowship Award for Black Artists is an unrestricted award of $10,000 for Washington State artists who identify as Black/African/African American. All artists who identify as Black, African, and/or African American will have to opt into being considered for this award with a completed Fellowship Award application. This Fellowship is permanently funded thanks to the generous support of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom.
• Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom Fellowship Award
  • The Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom Fellowship Award is an unrestricted award of $10,000 to a visual artist of any background residing in Washington State. Artists will have to opt into being considered for this award with a completed Fellowship Award application. This Fellowship is permanently funded thanks to the generous support of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom.
• Lillian Miller Foundation Fellowship for Trans And Indigiqueer Artists
  • The Lillian Miller Foundation Fellowship Award for Trans and Indigiqueer Artists is an unrestricted award of $10,000 for Washington State artists of all disciplines who self-identify as trans in its most inclusive sense. This may include transgender, indigiqueer, Two-Spirit, genderqueer, or nonbinary people, and anyone whose gender identity is nonconforming and/or different from their gender assigned at birth. Artists will have to opt into being considered for this award with a completed Fellowship Award application. This Fellowship was made possible thanks to support from The Lillian Miller Educational Foundation.
• Vadon Foundation Fellowship Award for Native Artists
  • The Vadon Foundation Fellowship Award for Native Artists is an unrestricted award of $10,000 to a Native artist of any discipline residing in Washington State. To be considered for this award, artists must complete the Fellowship Award application and provide documentation of their Native American heritage in one of the following ways:
    • Documentation of tribal enrollment provided by a federally- or state-recognized tribe, band, nation, or Alaska Native Village;
    • Documentation provided by a federally- or state-recognized tribe, band, nation, or Alaska Native village identifying the applicant as a descendant.

Disciplinary Categories

Disciplinary categories may include the following practices:

• Literary Arts: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental/Hybrid Works, Poetry, Graphic Novels, Zines.
• Media Arts: Animation, Augmented Reality, Film, Immersive Audio & Video Works, Podcasts, Screenplays, Sound Art, Teleplays, Video Art, Virtual Reality, Web-based Art.
• Performing Arts: Costume Design, Dance, Music, Music Composition, Musical Theater, Performance Art, Playwriting, Puppetry, Set Design,
• Sound Design, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theater, Traditional/Folk Performance.
• Visual Arts: BioArt, Craft, Digital Arts, Drawing, Ecological Art, Environmental Design, Furniture Art, Illustration, Installation, Interactive Installation & Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Public Art, Sculpture, Traditional/Folk Art.

Eligibility Criteria

The 2024 Fellowships are open to artists residing in Washington State working in all disciplines.

APPLICANTS MUST BE:

• 18 years of age or older;
• Washington State residents at the time of application and payment;
• Individual artists (or artist teams) who are the originators of works of art.

For more information, visit Artist Trust.