Individual Artist Fellowships
The Regional Arts & Culture Council Fellowship Award Program recognizes
artistic achievement and excellence and offers individual artists greater opportunities
to advance their work. The program is intended to help individual artists of
high merit sustain or enhance their creative process. Based on available funding,
the Regional Arts & Culture Council intends to award $20,000 to each Fellow
according to the following disciplines: Visual Arts, Media Arts, Literary Arts, and Performing Arts.
Definition of "Fellowship"
The Fellowship Award will recognize individual artists in the tri-county area
who are the strongest representatives of the range and diversity of art in the
Northwest. An artist’s commitment to the crafting of an idea, the honing
of a vision and the development of a consequential body of work, requires discipline,
rigor, curiosity, singularity and generosity of spirit. For artists who possess
these qualities, their profession is a self-directed life choice, and their
continued development reflects the shape of our region and the voice of our
time. It is this mature and dedicated artist that the Fellowship program seeks
to honor and support.
To be eligible for a Fellowship, an applicant must:
- Be a professional artist, as recognized by his/her peers, with a minimum
of 10 years in the discipline for which they applying.
- Have been a resident of Oregon for a minimum of 5 years and currently a
physical resident of Clackamas, Multnomah, or Washington Counties.
- Have been active on a regular basis in the tri-county area through by presenting
or performing or by offering arts related opportunities to tri-county citizens.
- Be a recognized artist within the general discipline category for which
Fellowships are being offered in the current fiscal year.
- Provide RACC with a Social Security number upon notification that you have
been awarded a Fellowship.
Upcoming Fellowship Disciplines:
Each year certain artistic disciplines are honored through the Fellowship Award
program. The following is a list of the disciplines and their corresponding
grant year:
FY 2008-2009: Literature (Deadline passed)
FY 2009-2010: Performing Arts
FY 2010-2011: Visual Arts
FY 2011-2012: Media Arts
Folk artists are eligible to apply within the category
which best describes their art form.
Past Fellowship Recipients
1999 - Performing Artists Obo Addy and Mary Oslund
2000 - Visual Artists Christine Bourdette and Terry Toedtemeier
2001 - Literary Arts, Michele Glazer & Media Arts, Jim Blashfield
2002 - Performing Arts, Tomas Svoboda & Keith Scales
2003 - Visual Artists Michael Brophy and Judy Cooke
2004
- Literary Arts, Craig Lesley& Media
Arts, Chel White
2005 - Performing Arts, Thara Memory
2006 - Visual Arts, Henk Pander
2007 - Media Arts, Joanna Priestley
RACC Staff to Contact
Cindy Knapp
Director of Operations
Helen Daltoso
Grants Program Officer
503.823.5402
hdaltoso@racc.org
Ingrid Carlson
Grants Specialist
503.823.5417
icarlson@racc.org
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