The Arkansas Arts Council seeks nominations of potential Governor’s Arts Award recipients from the community.
Donor Name: Arkansas Arts Council
State: Arkansas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 09/05/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The annual Governor’s Arts Awards program recognizes Arkansas artists, arts patrons, arts educators, arts organizations and businesses for their outstanding contributions to the arts community.
Award Categories
- Arts Community Development Award
- A civic leader who has taken a leadership role in creating an environment for artists and the arts to flourish in their local community. Potential nominees include arts administrators, elected public officials, and community volunteers.
- Arts in Education Award
- An individual or organization that has made significant contributions in integrating the arts into the educational curriculum within the school system or through creating educational opportunities in the arts outside the school setting
- Corporate Sponsorship of the Arts Award
- An Arkansas for-profit business that has made a significant contribution in support of the arts in this state. This does not include foundations associated with for-profit businesses, stand-alone foundations or 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
- Folklife Award
- An individual or group that actively practices, shares and preserves folklife traditions within a cultural community. Examples include traditional crafts, dance, foodways, music, storytelling or shared contemporary cultural traditions and artforms built on tradition.
- Individual Artist Award
- An artist active in the field of architecture, contemporary crafts, design, film, literature, performing arts or visual arts who has made significant contributions to their art form. (Please include images of the artist’s work as part of the nomination.)
- Patron Award
- An individual or family who has made significant philanthropic contributions to the development of the arts.
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- An artist or group whose contributions to the arts over a lifetime has fostered significant recognition, or an art patron whose lifetime of dedication to the development and support of the arts will sustain the arts beyond their lifetime.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominees must be current Arkansas residents or Arkansas-based corporations or organizations. Outstanding artists, arts patrons, corporate sponsors, arts education coordinators and local leaders in arts development are all eligible.
- Current Arkansas Arts Council members, staff of the Department of Arkansas Parks, Heritage and Tourism or their immediate families and selection committee members are not eligible to nominate or be nominated. Posthumous nominations will not be accepted. Past recipients are not eligible in the category for which they have received a previous Governor’s Arts Award.
- Nominees are judged on the following criteria:
- The significance of the contributions and achievements of the nominee, as related to the arts.
- The range of individuals and groups served by the nominee’s contributions.
- The length of time and the degree of the nominee’s dedication to the arts.
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