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Presentation Overview
Applying for the 2013 Artist Trust Fellowship

- About the award - About the application - About the process - Questions

About the Award

ABOUT THE AWARD

Artist Trust Fellowship Merit based award $7500 16 awards Eight categories

ABOUT THE AWARD

Artist Trust Fellowship

Meet the Artist Requirement $500

ABOUT THE AWARD

Eligibility Washington State resident Generative individual artist 18 years of age or older Artist Team Specific circumstances

ABOUT THE AWARD

Eligibility May not be: Graduate or undergraduate matriculated students Current Board members, Honorary Committee members, staff, consultants, Current Fellowship panelists or their immediate family members. Seven year wait before reapplying (2005-2012) One application per artist

About the Application

Locating the Application

www.artisttrust.org
Download and READ the Guidelines

Understand
Click > Funding Training and Resources
Click > Grants, Awards and Residencies Click > Fellowship

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You should contact Artist Trust if you:
Need to edit an application you already submitted. Need to speak with someone about deadline dates. Need information about the call's jury process, status, or results. Have questions about the status of your application. Have questions about application requirements and general submission policies. Have a question about notifications and jury results.

About the Application

You should contact a member of the CaF team if you: Have a question about how to checkout / encounter an error. Cannot access the site or encounter an authentication error.

Have questions about uploading or formatting your images.

Images are not uploading / encounter an error at upload. Encounter any error messages or to report bugs.

Are unable to navigate the CaF Web site.

Have suggestions for system enhancements, improvements.

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Categories

Understand
Organizations will ask artists to categorize themselves. While it is understood that artists and art is ever evolving it is necessary to have categories to facilitate adjudication.
Please dont be offended by this request.

About the Application

Categories for 2013 Fellowship:

Emerging Fields and Cross-disciplinary Arts

Folk and Traditional Arts Performing Art Visual Art

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Requirements for the application:

Rsum Artist Statement Work Sample

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Artist Rsum

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Primary Sections: Personal Info Education Employment (if relevant) Awards and Grants Exhibitions/Performances/Screenings Bibliography/Collections/Discography

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OTHER SECTION SUGGESTIONS: Split exhibitions into Solo and Group Exhibitions Commissions Installations Lectures and Presentations Juries / Panels Collaborations Curating Experience Teaching Experience Organization Affiliations (Member Artist Trust) Related Professional Experience

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Artist Statement

About the Application

Artist Statement Essentials An artist statement is an introductory text that provides a contextual background for your artwork.

http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/resource/artist_statement_essentials

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Artist Statement Essentials Dos Tone should be expressive of your work: it could be reserved, theoretical, academic, analytic, humorous, antagonistic, or political as long as its succinct and provides an accurate reflection of your work. Relate to the work (for most applications) Be simple, concise, clear, and direct. Spell check! Refer to yourself in the first person. Paragraph to a page.

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Artist Statement Essentials Donts
use artspeak and convoluted language. attempt to impress anyone with statements that do not ring true with the work. describe what is visible.
My work is about elucidating the patriarchal configuration of the social arrangement
or My work is about male-dominated societies

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Artist Statement Essentials Things to think about:
Themes Motives Sources or influences Similarities Where do you fit in

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Work Sample

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WORK SAMPLE

High quality documentation of your work. Choose your strongest work. Submit as many images or samples as allowed. Work sample submission types

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WORK SAMPLE SELECTION
How will your work be reviewed Cohesive Cue your work Provide interesting excerpts Submit only YOUR work

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Work Sample file formats accepted by Artist Trust through CaFE. See Fellowship guidelines for more detail. Images JPG Audio files AIFF, WAV, XMF, MP3 Video files 3GP, WMV, AVI, MOV, ASF, MPG, MP4, M2T, MKV, and M2TS Documents ( Doc DocX?, PDF

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Molly Epstein

Julia Sober John Grade

Molly Epstein

Julia Sober

John Grade

Marissa Rae Niederhauser

KT Niehoff
John Marshall Wally Shoup

About the Process

About the Process

Review Process
Artist Trust will convene discipline-specific review panels composed of artists and arts professionals.

About the Process

Selection criteria: subjective judgment of artistic excellence as presented in the work submitted in the support materials; the professional background of the artist; evidence of continuing dedication to artistic discipline.

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You will be notified in late May/early June

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