Funder

Dance/USA

Funder Type

Private Foundation or Non-Profit

Amount

$30,000USD

In this current round, DFA will fund 30 one-year fellowships of a minimum of $30,000 per awarded artist. DFA will cover expenses for access and/or related travel during cohort convenings.

Applicant Type

Individuals: Early Career and Emerging in Field
Individuals: Mid-Career to Established in Field

Applicant/Institution Location

United States

Citizenship

United States

Activity Location

United States

Abstract

DFA offers direct support to individual artists who have developed a sustained and intentional practice of working through dance and movement-based modalities to address social change.

Art for social change intentionally affects and respectfully engages communities and audiences. Creating social change must be integral to the ideas, beliefs, and goals that are woven throughout an artist’s process of creating and sharing the art. Art for social change is art with a vision and an intentional analysis. It is an artistic or creative cultural practice that may operate in traditional or nontraditional forms or settings. Art with this vision impacts people and communities in many ways. It can:

• Create space for expression and build a sense of community
• Preserve or reclaim traditional cultural practices
• Alter or question how we think about ourselves, our society, or our culture
• Create a vision of a more just world
• Be a tool or strategy for organizing and movement building
• Challenge racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, ageism, ableism, or other oppressions
• Question dominant culture beliefs
• Shift or transform the perception of power and/or privilege and the dynamics associated with justice, equity, and/or accountability

Eligibility

As an applicant, you must:

• Have dedicated your practice to directly and meaningfully addressing the needs of one or more community(s).
• Have respectful, ethical, and committed relationships with the communities with which your work is in dialogue
• Have an artistic practice in dance and/or movement-based modalities.
• Have not received major six-figure funding, such as MacArthur Foundation “Genius” awards and Doris Duke Artist Awards.
• Be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident.

Funder

New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA)

Funder Type

State, Province or Local Government

Amount

Upper:  $26,500USD Lower:  $4,000USD

Fellowship awards have ranged in the past from $4,000 - $26,500. The amount of the award is determined annually by the State Arts Council based on funding provided through the New Jersey Hotel/Motel tax. Fellowships are awarded to applicants who demonstrate the highest artistic talent, with no cap or quota per artistic discipline. Fellowship grants available through this application are for the period January 1 through December 31, 2023.

Fellowships may not provide funding for scholarships or academic study in pursuit of a degree.

Applicant Type

Individuals: Early Career and Emerging in Field
Individuals: Mid-Career to Established in Field

Applicant/Institution Location

United States

Citizenship

United States

Activity Location

New Jersey

Abstract

Fellowships are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals. Fellowship awards are based solely upon demonstrated artistic excellence and not any other factors.

FY 2023 Artistic Categories:

• Choreography: This category accepts choreography in all styles of dance, as well as other types of artistic performance with coordinated movement.
• Crafts: This category accepts all forms of functional and nonfunctional craft objects including those made of ceramics, glass, wood, metal, fiber, textiles, and recycled materials.
• Music Composition: This category accepts composition in all styles of classical, popular, jazz, hiphop, and folk music, noise and experimental sound, and original music composed for theater.
• Photography: This category accepts analogue and digital photography, as well as works where photographic techniques are pivotal.
• Poetry: This category accepts all forms of written poetry.
• Playwriting/Screenwriting: This category accepts scripts written for stage or screen.
• Sculpture: This category accepts all forms of static and kinetic sculpture, as well as installations and three-dimensional public art.

Eligibility

• Artists must be permanent residents of the State of New Jersey. The applicant must be a current, permanent New Jersey resident at the time of application (the date the application is submitted) and at the time of award (March 2023).
• Age 18 or older.
• The applicant must be the artist whose original work is represented in the work samples.

Artists who received a Fellowship in any category in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, or 2018 are not eligible to apply for the current year.

Applicants may submit one application in a single category per year.

Funder

Lewis Center for the Arts
Princeton University

Funder Type

Academic Institution

Applicant Type

Individuals: Early Career and Emerging in Field
Individuals: Mid-Career to Established in Field

Applicant/Institution Location

Unrestricted

Citizenship

Unrestricted

Activity Location

New Jersey

Abstract

The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work.

Eligibility

Applicants should be early career composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists–this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community. The department is committed to fostering an academic environment that acknowledges and encourages diversity and differences. The successful candidate will pursue academic excellence in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply.

Holders of a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University are not eligible. This fellowship cannot be used to fund work leading to a Ph.D. or any other advanced degree.

Funder

Jerome Foundation (Jerome Hill)

Funder Type

Private Foundation or Non-Profit

Amount

$50,000USD

Fellows receive $50,000 over two consecutive years ($25,000 each year).

Applicant Type

Individuals: Early Career and Emerging in Field

Applicant/Institution Location

United States

Citizenship

United States

Activity Location

Minnesota

New York

Abstract

This Fellowship supports artists who embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and consciously work with a sense of service, whether aesthetic, social or both. Support is directed to artists who are at an early point in their careers in creating such work, generally in their 2nd–10th year as a generative artist

Available fields:

• Dance
• Media (including Film/Video and New Media)
• Literature
• Music
• Theater/Performance Art/Spoken Word
• Visual Arts
• Technology Centered Arts
• Combined Artistic Fields

Eligibility

Eligible Artists are:

• Residents of either Minnesota or the 5 boroughs of New York City who have been residents for at least one year at time of application
• Generative artists who are currently creating new original work
  • Generative artists conceive and create new original work (e.g., choreographers,composers, playwrights and devisers, filmmakers, poets, writers of fiction or creative non-fiction, visual artists, etc.). Jerome does not fund artists who have solely performed or developed/produced the work of others (e.g., dancers, musicians, actors, editors,designers,journalists, etc.). Artists have demonstrated the ability to conceive and create new original work and their primary future career goals are to continue as generative artists.
  • New original work has been created and developed by the artist from concept to completion and is not a remount, revival, or interpretation of previously existing material.
• Early career artists with at least 2 years but not more than 10 years of professional generative artistic practice in any field
  • Early career: In general, early career artists are typically in their 2nd to 10th year of generative creative practice, excluding any time spent in a degree-granting program (if applicable). Individuals who are at the very beginning of their careers and who do not have the required completed and presented works are not eligible to apply. The Foundation considers the sum of an artist’s generative career experience in the evaluation of the 2–10 year timeframe.
• Generative artists who have two or more completed and presented works (outside of work created in a degree-granting program). These works must have been produced or presented/published/exhibited/screened by an independent organization or producer (not self-presented).
• Not enrolled as a full-time student in a degree-granting education program at the time of application or during the fellowship period.
  • The Jerome Foundation defines “full-time student” in terms of enrollment/matriculation status, not contact hours, so low-residency MFA students are not eligible to apply.
  • Artists who have completed all but their dissertation for a PhD program, who are generating new work(s) and who meet all other eligibility criteria should contact Jerome staff to discuss eligibility.
• Not a tenured faculty member (or the equivalent)
• Not an applicant on more than one application
• Not previously a recipient of a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship
• Artists who have received significant awards and prizes for multiple projects/works in any field may also be considered too established or recognized to be considered early career and qualify for support in this Fellowship.

Age and formal training in a degree program are not factors in determining eligibility.

Funder

The Cowles Center
McKnight Foundation

Funder Type

Private Foundation or Non-Profit

Amount

$25,000USD

Three unrestricted fellowships of $25,000 will be awarded.
In addition to the cash award, fellows receive additional support for career development, are invited to attend a four-day retreat in rural Minnesota, and are eligible to have an original solo work commissioned for an evening titled SOLO.

Applicant Type

Individuals: Mid-Career to Established in Field

Applicant/Institution Location

United States

Citizenship

United States

Activity Location

Minnesota

Abstract

The McKnight Fellowships for Dancers annually award fellowships to Minnesota dancers. The awards are unrestricted and can help an artist set aside periods of time for study, reflection, experimentation, and exploration; take advantage of an opportunity, or work on a new project.

The fellowship program is designed to award Minnesota dancers whose work is of exceptional artistic merit, who have created a substantial body of work over a period of time, and who are at a career stage that is beyond emerging.

Eligibility

Artists who are eligible for these fellowships:
· Have or maintain Minnesota residency (or in a Native Nation that shares this geography) for at least one year prior to application and for the duration of the fellowship year.
· Are mid-career with a body of work that demonstrates a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment, and artistic excellence.
· Can only apply to one McKnight Artist Fellowship program in any artistic discipline within a year.
· Have not been a recipient of a McKnight Artist Fellowship within any artistic discipline in the last five years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022).
· Demonstrate growth and ongoing artistry since their most recent McKnight Artist Fellowship.
· Are not staff, board, or immediate family of the McKnight Foundation or The Cowles Center.
· Are not enrolled full-time in an academic program.

Funder

Lewis Center for the Arts
Princeton University

Funder Type

Academic Institution

Amount

$86,000USD

An $88,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree.

Applicant Type

Individuals: Early Career and Emerging in Field

Applicant/Institution Location

Unrestricted

Citizenship

Unrestricted

Activity Location

New Jersey

Abstract

Princeton Arts Fellowships, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching.

Princeton Arts Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, our expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year.

Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree.

Eligibility