Wyoming Visual Arts Fellowships 2016

The Wyoming Arts Council invites Wyoming artists to apply for its 2016 Visual Arts Fellowships. Fellowships honor the work of Wyoming visual artists that reflects serious and exceptional aesthetic investigation. Artists working in any visual media are invited to apply, including 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 Biennial exhibition for the 2016 and 2017 recipients will likely take place in 2017, venue to be determined. The 2014/15 Biennial will be May-August, 2015, at the UW Art Museum in Laramie, WY.

Fellowship judging will be anonymous, with decisions 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 4 samples and have the option to submit stills. Your name should not appear anywhere on the application or work samples, except where specifically requested, to preserve the anonymous nature of the judging. Fellowship results will be announced at the CLICK! conference April 10-11, 2015, held at the Buffalo Bill Center for the West in Cody. Entrants not selected for fellowships will be notified in writing after that date.