New Jersey and Delaware Fellowship

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New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships

The 2027 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist 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. 

The 2027 Fellowships are offered in the following categories:

• Choreography
• Crafts
• Music Composition
• Photography
• Playwriting/Screenwriting
• Poetry
• Sculpture

Application Assistance Webinar: View the recording on YouTube.

Early Bird Deadline: Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 5PM ET.

Applicants who apply by the Early Bird Deadline will receive revision requests and the opportunity to correct application errors. Applicants who apply after the Early Bird Deadline will be automatically deemed ineligible if their application contains errors.

Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 5PM ET.

Image: Adriane Colburn, 2025 NJ Individual Artist Fellow, Sculpture. Right Angle, installation view, 2024. Steam Bent Ash and Acrylic. 

Delaware Individual Artist Fellowships

The Delaware Division of the Arts' Individual Artist Fellowships provide funding to Delaware creative artists to fulfill needs that will allow them to advance in their careers.

The Fellowship program is administered in partnership with Mid Atlantic Arts, who identifies arts professionals to serve as potential jurors, and administers the jurors’ reviews of the applications.

Submission Deadline: Monday, August 3, 2026 at 11:59PM ET.

Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship

Mid Atlantic Arts is excited to partner again with the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) and South Arts to support the 2026 Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship program. 

The Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowships honor, celebrate, and support storytellers representing Appalachian counties of Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Fellows should identify as a culture bearer of oral tradition, show a commitment and proven ability to sustain the traditions of Black storytelling, and have strong ties to Appalachian identity and heritage. 

Each Fellow will receive $5,000, a unique award by a Black Appalachian artist, and NABS membership during their award year. They will be honored at the 44th National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference, November 3-8, 2026, in Warwick, Rhode Island. They will also be invited to perform at the 2027 Conference in Asheville, North Carolina.

Visit the NABS website to learn more and apply! 

Image: The 2025 NABS Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellows receiving their awards. Credit: Joel Chapman.

Annual Report

Thank you for supporting the spirit of our region and the artists and organizations working to build a thriving creative future.

Our 2025 Annual Report takes us through a period of transition as we move into our new long range plan implementation and what the means for Mid Atlantic Arts and the communities we serve. We look forward to collaborating meaningfully, centering the voices of our region, and Imagining Next.

Cultural Sustainability Spotlight: Mujeres de Islas

In our latest Cultural Sustainability grantee feature, Dolly Camareno speaks with Dulce del Rio-Pineda, the organizational coordinator and co-founder of Mujeres de Islas. This blog post explores the organization's history, numerous projects, and its beginnings in the island municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

Lee esta entrada de blog en español aquí. 

Read the blog post in English here.

Image: The Mujeres de Islas team in their event space. Credit: Jacinto Salcedo.

Food, Memory, and Sankofa: Reclaiming Foodways Across Central Appalachia and West Africa

Jason B. Tartt, Sr. is an entrepreneur, farmer, and community development leader from McDowell County, West Virginia, whose work focuses on agriculture, food systems, and economic resilience in both Central Appalachia and Ghana. Through his work with Economic Development Greater East (EDGE) and agribusiness initiatives in West Africa, Tartt explores how traditional agricultural knowledge and community-rooted food systems can create healthier, more self-sustaining communities across regions. 

Jason's blog post, "Food, Memory, and Sankofa: Reclaiming Foodways Across Central Appalachia and West Africa" explores how farming and food connects people across countries to cultural memory, health, and resilience.

Image: Jason next to a peach tree above the DRT (Demonstration, Rearch and Training) nursery and urban farming training area. Courtesy of Jason Tartt.

Opportunity Quick Links

• Centrum is accepting applications for its Emerging Artist Residency program in Port Townsend, WA. Creative professionals from all disciplines and backgrounds can participate. Visual artists have their choice of studios of different sizes, including a printmaking studio. Centrum's campus includes several organizations with whom a resident can arrange to connect such as: Rainshadow recording studio, Madrona MindBody Institute, the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, Copper Canyon Press, and Northwind Art. 
  Deadline: Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Learn more here.

• imprint is accepting applications for its annual dance writing fellowship program. The fellowship supports three emerging QTBIPOC dance writers through writing and publishing mentorship and professional development. Fellows will receive $500 for 40 hours of work/study over the course of a year. Participating writers will also attend twelve monthly cohort meetings and at least five performances. Participants will contribute at least three completed writings to the Patel Dance Works blog. 
  Deadline: Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Learn more here.

• The Delaware Division of the Arts is accepting applications for the Delaware Writers Retreat. This retreat takes place from November 5-8, 2026 at the Biden Environmental Center in Cape Henlopen State Park. Applications are being accepted from creative writers in the following areas: fiction; creative nonfiction; and poetry. Deadline: Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Learn more here.

• Light Work is accepting applications for their 2027 Artist-in-Residence program. Twelve to fifteen photography and digital imaging artists are invited to devote one month to creative projects in Syracuse, NY. The residency includes $7,500 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual, along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection. 
  Deadline: Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Learn more here.

• Queer|Art is accepting applications for the Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field. In order to further recognize finalists for their artistic achievements, Queer|Art is pleased to announce that the grant will also provide a $1,250 award to four distinguished finalists. Winning artists and finalists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development. 
  Deadline: Thursday, July 2, 2026. Learn more here.

• The Center for Fiction is accepting applications for the Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship program. This program provides financial support, professional and creative development, personalized mentorship, and community engagement to nine early-career, New York City-based fiction writers. Fellows receive a $5,00o grant, access to studios, and professional development opportunities, and more. 
  Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2026. Learn more here.

• The Pollock -Krasner Foundation is accepting applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and/or artists who work on paper, including printmakers. These unrestricted grants range up to $50,000. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces. 
  Deadline: rolling. Learn more here.

• The Craft Emergency Relief Fund is accepting applications from craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster. Applicants must be craft artists who are 18 years of age or older, and must have been living and working in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the past two years. Deadline: rolling. Learn more here.

Image: Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass on the Hamilton Auditorium stage at Carnegie Hall West Virginia for a Special Presenter Initiatives engagement. Credit: Sheena Pendley.