Since 2003, the Joyce Foundation has commissioned 32 new works from artists of color in Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee and Minneapolis/St. Paul. In those ten years, Joyce Award recipients have flourished both nationally and within their communities.

For the first time in its 60-year history, the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts will be awarding fellowships to all 10 long-term artist residents along with stipends for all short-term summer residents.

The four newest fellowships, starting in 2012, are sponsored by the Windgate Charitable Foundation. In addition, the Bray offers the Taunt Fellowship, the Lilian Fellowship, the Lincoln Fellowship, the Natsutani Fellowship, the MJD Fellowship, and the Speyer Fellowship.

Since 2008, 3Arts has distributed more than $840,000 to Chicago's women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities through its awards, residency fellowship, and project support programs.
 

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to announce that a group of recent Pew Fellows will take sojourns outside of the Philadelphia area next year for residencies that will push their artistic practice and expand their horizons.

The National Endowment for the Arts announced today its most recent round of grants, awarding $22.5 Million to 863 organizations and individual fellows nationwide. More than $1.6 Million will support creative residency programs – artist communities, colonies, and residencies that provide artists of any discipline with dedicated time and space for the development of new work.