New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grants

Fellowships are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals. Awards are based solely upon demonstrated artistic excellence and not on any other merits that may be associated with a project or any other factors. Artists may use fellowship awards to pursue work, purchase supplies, attend a residency or workshop, rent studio space or otherwise free their time.

In the last two-year cycle 837 artists from around the state applied for a fellowship grant. Of those, 58 artists were awarded fellowships in fourteen categories and ranged from $7,200 to $12,000. A total of $439,800 in grant money was awarded.

In January 2006 (and even numbered years) fellowships will be awarded in choreography, design, media, music composition, new genres in visual arts, painting and works on paper. The application deadline for these categories is July 15, 2005. In January 2007 (and odd numbered years) fellowships will be awarded in these seven categories: crafts, interdisciplinary performance, photography, poetry, playwriting, prose and sculpture. The application deadline will be July 15, 2006.

Guidelines and applications are available online. If you are unable to access the web please contact the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation at: 410-539-6656 extension 101 or at: 201 N. Charles Street, Suite 401, Baltimore, MD 21201 and they will mail you a copy of the application. For questions about the Fellowship Program please call the Artist Services unit at the NJSCA at (609) 984-7023 or .

Eligibility is open to artists who are permanent residents of New Jersey, have not received a Fellowship in the past five years and are not currently enrolled as matriculating students in high school, college or graduate school.

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The Cultural Access Network is a co-sponsored project of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.