Wyoming Arts Council accepting applications for arts fellowships

The visual arts fellowships are selected based on the artist’s portfolio and will honor work that reflects serious and exceptional investigation. Artists working in any medium may apply. Up to three fellowships may be given each year. Applications must be submitted online through CaFE (callforentry.org). The jurors for this year’s visual arts fellowships are Whitney Tassie from Salt Lake City and Iwan Bagus from Washington, D.C.

The performing arts fellowships are given to honor excellence in the artists’ field, and are based on appropriate media samples and artist statements. Up to four fellowships will be awarded: two in the category of music and two fellowships in the category of theatre and dance. Artists may only apply in one category, and applications must be submitted online through Submittable (wyomingartscouncil.submittable.com). The juror for this year’s Performing Arts Fellowship in Theatre and Dance is Michael Bobbitt from Glen Echo, Maryland, and the juror for Music is Philip Graulty from Los Angeles.

The creative writing fellowships are awards of merit, based on a writer’s body of work and honoring Wyoming’s literary artists whose work demonstrates exceptional writing. One fellowship will be awarded in each category of poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction, for a total of up to three fellowships. Writers may only submit in one category, and applications must be submitted online through Submittable (wyomingartscouncil.submittable.com). The jurors for this year’s Creative Writing Fellowships are E. Ethelbert Miller from Washington, D.C., for the poetry category, Rachel Riederer from Brooklyn for the creative nonfiction category and Arna Bontemps Hemenway from Dallas for the fiction category.

Complete eligibility requirements, juror bios and additional information can be found on the Arts Council website at www.wyomingartscouncil.org and are included with each call on Submittable and CaFE. For more information, contact Taylor Craig at the Arts Council at 307-777-7473 or taylor.craig@wyo.gov.