Don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2012 Artist Trust Fellowship. The Artist Trust Fellowship is a merit based award of $7,500 for talented artists residing in Washington State, USA, working in the disciplines of Craft Arts, Literary Arts, Media Arts and Music Arts. Sixteen awards are up for grabs in 2012.
In addition to the prestige and funding that comes with winning this award, Artist Trust Fellowships also include ‘Meet the Artist’ events which give fellows a unique opportunity to promote themselves and their work in communities and areas currently outside of their reach.
“Meet the Artist is an integral part of the Fellowship Program. Examples of Meet the Artist events include: a public reading, a lecture, a workshop or a performance of the recipient’s work”. Read more.
The application deadline for the 2012 Artist Trust Fellowship is February 26, 2012. To learn more about this and other open fellowship, grant, and funding opportunities with Artist Trust please click here.
Every year, USA Fellows distributes 50 fellowships worth $50,000 to artists in visual and performing arts, media and literature, who are in any stage of their career. Some of this year’s fellows include Steve James, who directed the 1994 documentary “Hoop Dreams” about the struggle of two black teenagers to become professional basketball players and modern-dance pioneer Donald Byrd, who choreographed “The Color Purple” on Broadway.
According to Bloomberg news, the L.A.-based nonprofit, United States Artists, provides the fellowships to “the most innovative and influential artists” in their field who struggle to maintain a steady income.
“Our staff makes the phone calls to the winners, and sometimes they’re crying or they’ll say, ‘You’ve pulled me back from the edge,’” said Katharine DeShaw, USA’s executive director. “You get a sense that the award is a real life saver.”
Candidates must be nominated by one of eight anonymous discipline-specific peer panels before he or she can submit an application. The Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential and Rasmuson foundations helped set up the artists fellowships in 2005 with $22 million in seed money.
Every year, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA offers choreography fellowships for collaborations with non-profit dance companies and one fellowship for an individual playwright, including residency at New Dramatists in Manhattan. The foundation was established in memory of Princess Grace (Kelly) of Monaco and supports exceptional emerging artists.
Seattle choreographer Olivier Wevers, Artistic Director of Whim W’Him, was awarded a $10,000 Choreography Fellowship to create a new dance work for Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theatre.
Seattle choreographers are making a splash – three of the eight recipients of the 2011 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowships are from Seattle. All winners will be recognized at a black-tie gala hosted by Prince Albert II of Monaco in New York City in November.
Since 1982, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA has awarded a total of over $8 million to nearly 500 individuals nationwide.
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