Individual Artist Awards
Rasmusun Foundation Grants for Individual Artists:
Every year Rasmuson offers grants to Alaska artists to support the time, reflection, immersion, or experimentation beneficial to the development of their artistry.
Project Awards: Awards of $7,500 for emerging, mid-career, and mature artists in all disciplines for specific, short-term projects that have a clear benefit to the artist and the development of his/her work. Approximately 25 Project Awards are granted annually. Project Awards are available in all 11 artistic disciplines.
Fellowships: $18,000 awards for mid-career or mature artists to focus their energy and attention for a one-year period on developing their creative work. The Fellowship program awards grants in 11 artistic disciplines that rotate on a two-year cycle. Approximately 10 Fellowships are awarded each year.
This year the disciplines awarded are Media Arts, Choreography, Multidiscipline Crafts, Music Composition, Folk and Traditional Arts, New Genre, Literary Arts/Scriptwork, Presentation/Interpretation, Performance Arts, Visual Arts.