Artist Fellowship Grant - Artist Fellowship Grants

The Artist Fellowship Grant offers $3,000 to Connecticut artists across all disciplines to support new work and enhance their careers. Eligible applicants must be at least 18 years old, full-time residents of Connecticut, and able to provide a Social Security Number. Recent recipients must wait five years before reapplying. This program aims to recognize and nurture artistic talent, ensuring that funds are directed towards artists with a professional body of work.

The Artist Fellowship Program provides recognition and funding support for Connecticut artists to pursue new work and advance their artistic careers.
Artist Fellowship Grants:

• $3,000

Eligibility

Connecticut artists from any discipline are eligible. Please note that funds are usually given to people who have a body of recent work that can be presented professionally. We encourage you to apply for this grant if you are an artist working in any artistic discipline and the primary creator of original works of art who is:18 years old or older at the time of application.
A full-time resident of Connecticut at the time of application and still a Connecticut resident when the award is granted. We verify residency when awarding grants.
Able to complete a W9 as an individual with your Social Security Number.Artist Fellowship recipients ($3,000 awardees) must wait five (5) years. For FY25 applicants, you can apply if you received your prior award in fiscal year 2019 or earlier.

Ineligibility

Incomplete submissions or submissions received after the deadline.
Artists who have overdue final reports from any COA grant program.
High school students and college/university students enrolled full-time at a degree-granting institution.
Connecticut Office of the Arts staff members and people in their immediate family.
Nonresident of Connecticut.
Recent Artist Fellowship recipients. See below for an outline of the wait period for recent grantees.