FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 18, 2006

Artist Trust Announces Revised Fellowship Categories & 2006 Applications Now Available!

Artist Trust announces revised Fellowship categories. Please review the revised categories below and refer to our FAQ’s sheet regarding these revisions.

The Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship offers a $6,000 award, and is designed to recognize an artist’s creative excellence and accomplishment, professional achievement and continuing dedication to their artistic discipline. The Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship Program makes annual awards to artists working in four disciplines. In 2006 and subsequent even years, 21 Fellowships will be funded for individual, generative* artists who reside in Washington State and work in Emerging & Cross-Disciplinary Arts, Performing Arts, Traditional & Folk Arts, and Visual Arts. In 2007and subsequent odd years, 21 artists working in Craft Arts, Literary Arts, Media Arts, and Music Arts will receive Fellowships. *Generative artists are defined as the originators of a work of art.

2006 Fellowship Categories:

• Emerging & Cross-Disciplinary Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Digital Arts (e.g. computer and web-based works), Architectural and Environmental Design, Interactive and Immersive Installation, Sound Art, and Cross-Disciplinary arts.
• Performing Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Choreography, Costume Design, Dance-Based Performance, Movement, Musical Theater, Performance Art, Playwriting, Set Design, and Theatre Performance.
• Visual Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Drawing, Graphic Design, Illustration, Installation, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture.
• Traditional & Folk Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Art forms (e.g. music, dance, craft, performance) learned as part of a community that shares a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or geography.

2007 Fellowship Categories:

• Craft Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Ceramics, Glass, Fiber Arts, Furniture, Jewelry Arts, Metal, Paper, Stone, Wood, and Book Arts.
• Media Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Film Arts, Video Arts, Animation, Screenplays, and Screenwriting.
• Music Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Music Composition, Generative Arrangement and Improvisational Composition.
• Literary Arts - Includes but is not limited to: Creative Non-Fiction, Experimental Works, Fiction, and Poetry.

Since 1993, Artist Trust has maintained a successful cooperative partnership with the Washington State Arts Commission to administer Fellowship awards on behalf of the State of Washington. Through the Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship Program, Artist Trust has awarded $1,557,000 to 288 artists.

The application postmark deadline is June 23, 2006. Artist Trust members receive an application by mail. All artists can receive an application at www.artisttrust.org or by mailing a business sized, self-addressed, stamped envelope to: 2006 Fellowship Application, Artist Trust, 1835 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122.

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