The Delaware Division of the Arts has announced the 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship program to support exceptional artists in Delaware working across various artistic disciplines, including the visual, performing, media, folk, and literary arts.
Donor Name: Delaware Division of the Arts
State: Delaware
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline : 08/01/2023
Size of Grant: $12,000
Details:
The Fellowship program is administered in partnership with Mid Atlantic Arts (MAA). MAA identifies arts professionals to serve as potential jurors and administers the jurors’ reviews of the applications.
Fellowships are designed to enable recipients to purchase equipment and materials, allocate working time, or fulfill other needs that will allow them to advance their careers (excluding foreign travel and lobbying).
Funding Information
The Fellowship program provides competitive grants in three categories with monetary awards of $5,000, $8,000, and $12,000 to Delaware artists. Fellowships are awarded for demonstrated creativity and skill in an art form with artistic quality as the primary determinant.
- Emerging Professional Fellowships in the amount of $5,000 are available to artists who have not yet established reputations in their fields. Artists applying in a discipline that they teach at the undergraduate level are ineligible to apply in the Emerging category. They must apply in the Established category.
- Established Professional Fellowships in the amount of $8,000 are available to artists who have significant achievements in their fields.
- A Masters Fellowship in the amount of $12,000 is available to artists that have received an Established Fellowship in the same discipline more than 7 years ago.
Fellowship Categories
Applicants may select between the Emerging and Established Professional categories. An Emerging Professional is in the early stages of their career while the Established Professional is more experienced and has achieved some recognition for their artwork (example: prizes, awards, publication).
In Fiscal Year 2024, Masters Fellowship applications will be accepted in the disciplines of Dance, Jazz and Music from artists who received an Established Professional Fellowship in the same artistic discipline more than seven years ago (prior to January 2017). Masters Fellowships will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Excellence of work
- Significant accomplishments in their field
- Sustained history of artistic activity within Delaware
Twenty disciplines are offered in Fiscal Year 2024:
- Dance: Choreography
- Folk Art: Music
- Folk Art: Oral Literature
- Folk Art: Visual Art
- Jazz: Composition
- Jazz: Performance
- Literature: Creative Nonfiction
- Literature: Fiction
- Literature: Playwriting
- Literature: Poetry
- Media Arts: Video/Film
- Music: Composition
- Music: Contemporary Performance (hip-hop, popular, R&B)
- Music: Solo Recital (classical)
- Visual Arts: Crafts
- Visual Arts: Painting
- Visual Arts: Photography
- Visual Arts: Sculpture
- Visual Arts: Works on Paper
- Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary (combines two or more visual arts disciplines or media arts)
Eligibility Criteria
Must be a resident of Delaware for at least one year at the time of application. A legal resident possesses a valid Delaware driver’s license or DMV-issued identification card and files state income taxes in Delaware as a full-year resident. All awards are subject to verification of Delaware residency.
- Must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
- Must remain a Delaware resident during the grant period (January 1 – December 31, 2024).
Ineligible applicants
- Students currently enrolled in a degree or certificate-granting educational program at the time of application.
- Any recipient of a Masters Fellowship.
- Fellowship recipients who have received an award within the past three years (FY2021, FY2022, and FY2023) are ineligible to apply in the Emerging or Established Professional categories.
- Applicants who submit incomplete applications or applications that do not follow the required format.
- A member or relative of a member of the Delaware State Arts Council or Division staff.
- Applicants with outstanding final reports from any past Division of the Arts grants.
For more information, visit Delaware Division of the Arts.