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For Immediate Release Contact: Heather Joy Helbach-Olds, Director of Programs Artist Trust’s GAP (Grants for Artist Projects) Applications Available! Individual artists who reside in Washington State are encouraged to apply to the 2007 GAP (Grants for Artist Projects) Program. Artist Trust’s GAP Program provides support for individual artist projects by awarding up to $1,500 for projects including (but not limited to) the development, completion or presentation of new work. Last year 690 artists applied to the GAP Program and 52 artists were funded from around the State. The GAP Program is open to artists working in ALL creative disciplines including visual, performing, literary, media and emerging & cross-disciplinary arts. Applicants must be residents of Washington State but cannot be a graduate or undergraduate student enrolled in a degree program. A multidisciplinary peer review panel of artists and art professionals from across Washington State selects GAP recipients. The panel’s selections are based foremost on the artistic excellence of an artist’s work as represented in their application. Postmark Deadline: February 23, 2007 GAP Applications and Guidelines are available either on the Artist Trust website at www.artisttrust.org or by sending a self-addressed, stamped, business-sized envelope to: GAP Application, Artist Trust, 1835 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122-2437. Completed applications may be mailed to the address above or may be hand delivered to Artist Trust at 1835 12th Avenue and East Denny Way in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle by 5:00pm on February 23, 2007. Mailed applications must have a US Postal Service postmark dated on or before February 23, 2007. Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to support and encourage individual artists working in all disciplines in order to enrich community life throughout Washington State. Find out more at www.artisttrust.org. |