Sunday, July 08, 2007

Opportunity for Pennsylvania Artists

Deadline: August 1, 2007

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts invites applications for the 2008 Individual Artists Fellowships. They are now accepting online applications to the 2008 Individual Artists Fellowship program, which offers $5,000 to $10,000 fellowships.

Discipline categories for this year's fellowship program are as follows: Dance -- choreography; Folk and traditional arts -- performing traditions and apprenticeships; Literature -- poetry; Media arts -- narrative and documentary; Music -- classical composition; Theater -- scriptworks; and Visual arts -- drawing, artists books, printmaking or new technologies or painting.

Artists applying for a PCA Fellowship must be permanent residents of Pennsylvania who have established residency for at least two years prior to the application deadline. Students in high school, undergraduate, or graduate programs at the time of application are ineligible to apply for a fellowship.

Application guidelines are available on the PCA Web site.