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title: "NYFA’s NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships"
url: "https://artleagueli.org/nyfas-nysca-nyfa-artist-fellowships/"
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date_published: "2021-01-19T18:16:15+00:00"
date_modified: "2022-01-24T14:22:55+00:00"
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# NYFA’s NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships

From the NY Foundation for the Arts:

Fellowship

2022 Choreography Guidelines

2022 Photography Guidelines

2022 Music/Sound Guidelines

2022 Playwriting/Screenwriting Guidelines

2022 Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Guidelines

Disciplines

Application Tips

FAQ

NYSCA/NYFA Fellows

Artists as Innovators Exhibition

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein.

This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.

Click here to view the full list of 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows, Finalists, and Panelists.

APPLICANTS MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

25 years or older

Current residents of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located in New York State

Must have maintained New York State residency, and/or residency in one of the Indian Nations located therein, for at least the last two consecutive years (2020 & 2021)

Cannot be enrolled in a degree-seeking program of any kind

Are the originators of the work, i.e. choreographers or playwrights, not interpretive artists such as dancers or actors

Did not receive a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in any discipline in the past five consecutive years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021

Cannot submit any work samples that have been previously awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship

While collaborating artists are eligible to apply, the total number of collaborators cannot exceed three

Are not a current NYFA employee or have been in the last 12 months, a member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, immediate family member of any of the aforementioned, or an immediate family member of a 2021-2022 panelist

Artists that have been awarded five NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships receive Emeritus status and are no longer eligible for the award

NYFA only accepts applications online via apply.nyfa.org/submit.

2022 AWARD CYCLE

Applications for the 2022 award cycle opened on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 10:00 AM EDT and will close on Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at 5:00 PM EST. The following categories will be reviewed:

Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design

Choreography

Music/Sound

Photography

Playwriting/Screenwriting