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For Artists – Tuesday, October 24, 2023
10.24.2023 IACA Reminder - FY24 Artist Fellowship Program Deadline is November 3, 2023
The deadline for the Illinois Arts Council Agency’s (IACA) Fiscal Year 2024 Artist Fellowship Program is Friday, November 3, 2023, at 11:59pm.
Applications are submitted via the IACA’s online Salesforce system and no late applications will be accepted.
Artist Fellowship Program
The Artist Fellowship Program's intent is to enrich and strengthen the state of Illinois by supporting accomplished Illinois artists who are the foundation of Illinois' creative environment. The Artist Fellowship Program recognizes exceptional artists who are at a career stage beyond emerging and have created a substantial body of work throughout their career. The Artist Fellowship Program does not support an artist’s project, but rather it is a program that provides monetary awards to support an artist’s continued artistic growth and exploration.
The IACA will provide a limited number of $15,000 awards across the following discipline categories:
· Contemporary Crafts
· Digital Arts
· Ethnic & Folk Arts
· New Art Forms (non-performative)
· Photography
· Sculpture
· Visual Arts (includes the 2D sub-categories of painting, mixed-media, printmaking, and other non-digital based visual arts)
A limited number of $1,500 Finalist Awards will also be given.
The IACA encourages artist working in these disciplines and who are residents of Illinois to apply.
A recorded webinar reviews the FY24 Artist Fellowship Program and the Salesforce grants management/application system.
Program Directors and the FY24 Fellowship disciplines they oversee are listed below. Please email the Program Director of your selected discipline with any questions.
· Susan Dickson, susan.dickson@Illinois.gov (Contemporary Crafts, Ethnic & Folk Arts, and New Art Forms)
· Jackie Banks-Mahlum, Jackie.banks-mahlum@illinois.gov (Photography and Sculpture)
· Danielle Heal, Danielle.Heal@Illinois.gov (Digital Arts, Visual Arts)