NC Artist Fellowship Applications
Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina Arts Council is accepting applications for the 2014-15 Artist Fellowship awards for songwriters, composers, and writers.
The program, now in its 34th year, supports creative development and the creation of new work for artists in North Carolina by allowing artists time to work and money to buy supplies and equipment. The award is $10,000. Fellowship guidelines can be found at www.ncarts.org.
The NC Arts Council’s fellowship program is one of the country’s premier programs, with fellowship totals over $4.5 million awarded to more than 585 artists across disciplines. Additional opportunities for artists include regional artist program grants, Creative Capital workshops, NC Heritage Awards, the Artist Directory, and the Mary B. Regan community artist residency grant, which named its first awardee this year.
“Far from the elitist image that art conjures for some, these artists are the very picture of industry and single-minded commitment,” explained Jeff Pettus, senior program director for Artists & Communities. “Call them artists, entrepreneurs, or the creative class, these are the people experts say are essential to make our communities places where we truly want to live.”
Fellowship Award Categories
Writers: Poets and spoken-word performers, playwrights, and writers of fiction and creative nonfiction, film-scripts, literary translations and of work for children in any of the above genres.
Composers and Songwriters: Composers of chamber, electronic, experimental, jazz & symphonic music; songwriters of Christian/gospel, contemporary acoustic/folk, country, hip-hop, pop/adult contemporary, R&B and rock/alternative genres.
Artists who have been year-round residents of NC for at least a year immediately prior to the application deadline may apply. Students are not eligible. Applicants must submit the application electronically; details are available on the Arts Council home page at www.ncarts.org, click “Artist Fellowship.” Deadline is Monday, November 3, 2014.
Music applicants should contact Andrea Lawson, performing arts director at [email protected] or (919) 807-6511; writers and literary translators should contact David Potorti, literature director at (919) 807-6512 or [email protected].
