The Forward Art Prize is designed to provide recipients with the flexibility to pursue their own artistic, intellectual, and professional activities in the absence of specific obligations and only minor reporting requirements.
Donor Name: Women Artists Forward Fund
State: Wisconsin
County: Dane County (WI)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Forward Art Prize is specifically given to individual artists, not organizations. They feel that the discoveries, actions, and ideas that shape community and society often begin with the ground-breaking efforts of individual creative people. The prize is award to women-identifying visual artists who are deeply engaged in artistic practices that inspire new ways of thinking, new behaviors, or new ways of engaging communities.
The Forward Art Prize offers two annual, unrestricted $10,000 awards for women-identifying visual artists living in Dane County, WI who show exceptional creativity in their work and compelling prospects for the future.
Funding Information
The Forward Art Prize is a $10,000 cash prize given annually to two individual women-identifying visual artists or women visual artist collaboratives in Dane County.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the Prize, applicant must comply with all of the following:
- Must currently be a resident of Dane County, Wisconsin, and have resided in Dane County for more than one year at the time of application submittal. You must be a resident of Dane County at the time the awards are given in the fall
- Must identify as a woman
- Must be 18 years old or older by November 1, 2025
- Must be a US resident
- Must not be a student at the time the award is given (November 2025)
- As an individual artist OR artists’ collaborative you must not have received arts funding such as grants, prizes, or awards of $10,000 or more from any single entity in 2022, 2023, or through June 2024
- They are looking for visual artists who work in one or more of the following media or areas of practice:
For more information, visit WAFF.
