Individual Artists

The State Arts Council offers grants and other opportunities to individual artists, either working separately or collaboratively. Each opportunity listed below requires an application or proposal which must be positively reviewed by a jury (panel or committee) to be successful.

• Artist Entrepreneurial Grants - Provide matching grants for professional New Hampshire artists, at any point in their careers,  to advance their careers through professional development opportunities, such as  mentoring of emerging artists by established artists, attendance at workshops/conferences/artist colonies that will increase their capacity as small businesses and artists, and assistance in marketing their work via  creation of websites or promotional materials.
• Fellowship Awards – Provide cash awards and increased promotion to six professional New Hampshire artists through an annual, no-fee competition, which rates examples of recent work by individual artists for artistic excellence.
• Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grants – Provide grants to a master/apprentice team to help preserve cultural heritage by enabling a master traditional artist to teach an experienced apprentice in one-to-one sessions.
• Percent for Art Purchases/Commissions – Provide opportunities for the State to acquire artwork by visual and craft artists, working individually or collaboratively, to be placed in the public spaces of new or existing state buildings.
• NH Artist Roster and Traditional Arts & Folklife Listing - Provide information to presenters in schools and communities for selecting juried artists for their programs. Inclusion in these listings makes artists eligible for other State Arts Council opportunities such as special training for teaching artists and grant subsidies for artist fees charged to presenters.
• Arts in Health Care Artist Directory – Provide artist information to health care and nursing home providers. These are trained professional artists with experience in health care settings, for arts in residence programs.

Last updated: October 29, 2007