Wyoming Visual Arts Fellowships 2015

The Wyoming Arts Council invites Wyoming artists to apply for its 2015 Visual Arts Fellowships. Fellowships honor the work of Wyoming visual artists that reflects serious and exceptional aesthetic investigation. Artists working in any of the following media are welcome to apply: experimental (conceptual/new media), graphic (printmaking/book arts), painting, sculpture, installation, photography (includes experimental, color, black & white, photocopy and computer), clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, paper, plastic, wood, mixed media, film or video.

Each year the Wyoming Arts Council awards up to three $3,000 fellowships in the visual arts. In addition to the three recipients, each panel may select honorable mentions. Panelists may choose not to award the number of fellowships or honorable mentions available. Fellowship recipients agree to participate in the Wyoming Arts Council Biennial Exhibition, and are included in the catalog produced. Held every two years in a public exhibition space in Wyoming, these exhibits are accompanied by catalogs and are curated by one of the Fellowship jurors. Honorable Mention artists may be included, space permitting. The next Biennial will be held in the summer of 2015 at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie, WY.

Fellowship judging will be anonymous. Decisions are based solely on the merit of the work submitted. Work is viewed electronically. Out of state jurors are chosen to represent a wide range of stylistic and aesthetic concerns, a broad understanding of contemporary visual art, and ethnic, gender and age diversity. Artists may submit up to ten work samples, of which up to two may be "detail" images, if appropriate. Film/video applicants may submit up to 6 samples, and have the option to submit stills. Fellowship results will be announced by November 7, 2014.