The Artist Trust Fellowship Awards are merit-based awards for 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: 11/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
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. In addition to the Artist Trust Fellowship Awards are the Fellowship Award for Black Artists, the Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom Fellowship Award, The Lillian Miller Foundation Fellowship for Trans and Indigiqueer Artists, and The Vadon Foundation Fellowship Award for Native Artists.
Disciplinary Categories
Disciplinary categories may include the following practices:
- Literary Arts: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental/Hybrid Works, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Poetry, and Zines.
- Media Arts: Animation, Augmented Reality, Film, Immersive Audio and Video Works, Podcasts, Screenplays, Sound Art, Teleplays, Video Art, Virtual Reality, and 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, and Traditional/Folk Performance.
- Visual Arts: BioArt, Digital Arts, Drawing, Ecological Art, Environmental Design, Furniture Art, Illustration, Installation, Interactive Installation and Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Public Art, Sculpture, and Traditional/Folk Art.
Funding Information
Artist Trust Fellowships are merit-based awards of $10,000 for practicing artists of exceptional talent and ability, residing in Washington State.
Eligibility Criteria
The 2026 Artist Trust 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.
- Applicants must not be:
- Fellowship recipients from 2018–2025
- Previous recipients of two or more Fellowship Awards in a lifetime;
- Previous recipients of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist or Arts Innovator Awards;
- Recipients of another Artist Trust grant in 2026;
- Current graduate or undergraduate students enrolled at the time of the application and/or payment (payment will be made March 2026);
- Applying on behalf of a company, nonprofit, organization, fiscal sponsorship, or community group;
- Current Artist Trust staff, Board of Trustees, honorary committee member, current Fellowship panelists, or their immediate family.
For more information, visit Artist Trust.
