Individual Artist Fellowship Awards Grant

Individual Artist Fellowship Awards Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Amount: US $4,000 - US $32,000
Last Updated: June 03, 2025

Summary

The Individual Artist Fellowship Awards, offered by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, support practicing artists in New Jersey to pursue their artistic goals. With two application deadlines on July 2 and July 16, 2025, these fellowships are awarded based on the artistic quality of submitted work, evaluated by independent panels. Eligible artistic categories range from Film and Digital to Painting and Interdisciplinary works, fostering creativity across diverse disciplines.

Overview

NOTE: There are 2 deadlines for this grant. Jul 2, 2025 - 2:00pm PDT represents the Early Bird deadline while Jul 16, 2025 - 2:00pm PDT is the final deadline. New Jersey State Council on the Arts The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (the State Arts Council) is a division of the New Jersey Department of State, created in 1966 by Public Law Chapter 214 and consists of 17 members, all appointed by the Governor for terms of three years, and three ex-officio members. Since its creation, the State Arts Council’s volunteer members and professional staff have worked to improve the quality of life in New Jersey through strategic support for the arts. Individual Artist Fellowships Individual Artist Fellowships (Fellowships) are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals. Fellows are selected through a competitive evaluation process by independent panels of peer reviewers. Panelists review the applications anonymously and score the work based solely on the artistic quality of the work submitted as part of the application. Fellowships are not need or project-based. FY 2026 Artistic Categories Film/Video: This category accepts all genres of film and video as well as any other timebased work produced by recording visual images. Digital/Electronic This category accepts time-based, interactive, or kinetic work where technology is pivotal to the meaning and/or presentation of the work such as electronic installations, virtual and augmented reality, internet projects, and other emerging forms. Film/video and responsive audio components that are incorporated into a larger installation work are also accepted in this category. Interdisciplinary: This category accepts work that is created by combining two or more Fellowship disciplines. The category is intended for work that would not otherwise be appropriate for review in any of the individual Fellowship disciplines due to the interdisciplinary nature of the work. Mixed media work that is primarily one medium, or work where each disciplinary component could be performed or exhibited independently should NOT be submitted in this category. Painting This category accepts all forms of painting, with the exception of digital painting, including watercolor, acrylic, gouache, oil, tempera, encaustic, mural/fresco, graffiti, and paintings that incorporate mixed media. Prose: This category accepts all forms of fiction, literary nonfiction, and other creative prose including novels, novellas, short stories, essays, criticism, journalism, and biography. Technical writing is not accepted. Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts: This category accepts all forms of drawing, printmaking, etching, collage, illustration, and installations in which printmaking or drawing techniques are pivotal, and other visual 2-dimensional media other than painting. Book art and examples of artistic bookmaking are also eligible in this category. Artist catalogues and literary books are not accepted. Other sculptural forms constructed of paper should be submitted in the Sculpture category.

Eligibility

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