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Description:

NYSCA/NYFA is seeking to provide a New York resident artist with a $7,000 cash award to work on their own artwork that includes performing traditions in music, dance, and drama; traditional storytelling and other verbal arts; festivals; traditional crafts, visual arts, architecture, the adornment and transformation of the built environment; and other kinds of folk culture.

Location:

New York City

Responsabilities:

  • You must be 25 years old or older.
  • You must be a current resident of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located in New York State, and have been a resident for at least the last two consecutive years prior to the application deadline (2016 & 2017).
  • At the time of the application deadline you must not be enrolled in a degree-seeking program of any kind.
  • You must not have received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in any disciplines in the last five years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), and cannot submit any artwork samples that have been previously awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship.
  • Fellowships are not awarded to interpretive artists such as dancers or actors; applicants must be the originators of the work; i.e. choreographers or playwrights.
  • Artists that have been awarded five NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships receive Emeritus Status and are no longer eligible to apply.
  • You must not be a NYFA employee, member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, an immediate family member of any of the above, or an immediate family member of a 2017-2018 panelist.

Requirements:

  • Work Statement – 100 words
  • Technical Statement – 200 words (optional)
  • Excerpt Explanation – 400 words (optional)
  • Cultural Statement – 700 words
  • Work Samples – 10 digital images with descriptions and/or 1 to 2 videos and 2 excerpts

Application Deadline:

January 24, 2018

Apply here:

https://apply.nyfa.org/submit

More information:

http://current.nyfa.org/post/167489481983/apply-now-nyscanyfa-artist-fellowship-in

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