Make Your Voice Heard in our Strategic Plan Survey | |
Mid Atlantic Arts is shaping its next strategic plan, and we want to hear from you! Artists, arts professionals, audiences, and communities in our region - let us know how the current changes in the arts field are affecting your work. What's broken? What's working?
Our survey should take about 15 minutes to complete, depending on how much you have to share.
Thank you for helping us imagine what's next!
| | Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots
Grantees Announced | | |
We are honored to announce the grantees of Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots. This pilot program, offered by the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations in partnership with the Wallace Foundation, provides general operating support to arts organizations rooted in communities of color who have operating expenses under $500,000. Operational support for grantees will allow them to sustain and expand arts practices for the communities they serve.
In the mid-Atlantic region, over $1,000,000 has been awarded to 20 organizations.
Join us in celebrating this inaugural round of Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots grantees!
| | New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships Applications Open | | |
The 2026 New Jersey State Council on the Arts' Individual Artist Fellowship application is now open! These fellowships are annual awards for practicing New Jersey artists. The awards rotate bi-annually by discipline. Previous awards have ranged from $3,000 - $31,000. Each year, Mid Atlantic Arts provides administrative support to New Jersey State Council on the Arts in an ongoing partnership.
This year, the categories offered are:
- Digital/Electronic
- Film/Video
- Interdisciplinary
- Painting
- Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
- Prose
Questions? We have an upcoming application assistance webinar:
Tuesday, June 24 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET. Register here.
Early Bird Deadline:
Wednesday, July 2 at 5pm ET.
Submission Deadline:
Wednesday, July 16 at 5pm ET.
View the rules and instructions and apply at our website below.
| | Image: 2024 New Jersey Individual Artist Fellow Dominic Mangila’s oil on canvas: Filipino Sugar Cane Plantation Workers in Hawaii (2023). Credit: Courtesy of the Artist. | | Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships Applications Open | | |
Applications are open for the Delaware Division of the Arts’ FY2026 Individual Artist Fellowships! This grant program supports visual, performing, literary, media, jazz, and folk artists in the three award categories:
- $5,000 for Emerging Artists
- $8,000 for Established Artists
- $12,000 for Master Artists
Applications are due Friday, August 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET
For more details on the disciplines offered and for program guidelines, visit the link below.
| | Mid Atlantic Tours Roster Interest Form Update | | |
Mid Atlantic Arts planned to offer a Roster Artist Interest Form in June 2025 for artists to express their interest in being considered for the 2026-2027 Mid Atlantic Tours roster. The Mid Atlantic Tours program is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Because of uncertainty surrounding Mid Atlantic Arts' NEA funding, we are postponing the 2026-2027 Roster Artist Interest Form process.
To keep up with more details, check the Mid Atlantic Tours program page here.
If you have any questions, email Program Director, Performing Arts Sarah Lewitus at slewitus@midatlanticarts.org.
| | Reflecting on the New York Folklore Roundtable | | |
In May, we attended the 2025 New York Folklore Roundtable, a gathering of folklorists, artists, and arts professionals across New York and New Jersey. This year, the Roundtable took place in Schenectady, NY, the home base of New York Folklore. Throughout the week, attendees shared updates about their work, reflections on the field and the current state of the arts world, and artists presented their work.
This year, quilter and anthropologist Asiyah Kurtz facilitated a community quilting activity. Attendees of the Roundtable responded to the prompt: What do you create that helps others feel seen, remembered, or rooted?
Check out more reflections on this Roundtable at our Folk and Traditional Arts blog on our website!
| | Image: Sally Vanderwater and Anne Rappaport hold up the 2025 New York Folklore Community Quilt, stitched by Asiyah Kurtz. Credit: Mackenzie Kwok. | | |
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Queer|Art invites applications for the Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, which aims to shed light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists. The annual $10,000 grant is awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field. In addition, the program will provide a $1,250 award to four distinguished finalists.
Deadline: Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Learn more here.
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Furthermore grants in publishing invites applications for nonfiction book publishing. Furthermore will run a single cycle of grants in 2025, with awards ranging from $1,500 to $12,000. Furthermore seeks work that will appeal to an informed general audience and give evidence of high standards in writing, design, and production. Funding may be applied to specific publication components such as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. 501(c)(3) organizations are eligible to apply. Deadline: Friday, July 11, 2025. Learn more here.
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The Artist in Residence program at Grand Canyon National Park is seeking proposals from artists whose work focuses on climate resiliency, environmental studies, natural and cultural histories, and historical interpretation and preservation. Three artists will selected to live and work on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona for 3-10 weeks. Artists in residence will receive private accommodations, travel and living stipends, and staff support.
Deadline: Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Learn more here.
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The Loghaven Artist Residency invites applications in the disciplines of writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism), visual arts, dance, theater, music composition, architecture, and interdisciplinary work. Practicing artists of all backgrounds and at any stage of their career are eligible to apply. International artists and artists currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program are not eligible. Artists must be at least 21 years old and live more than 120 miles from Knoxville. Deadline: Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Learn more here.
| | Image: Thomas Stanley aka Bushmeat Sound System interviews Matthew Shipp after their performance at Abramson Auditorium, NYU Washington DC's Special Presenter Initiatives engagement. Credit: Jamie Sandel | | | | |
