Artadia Awards

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.

In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. five Awardees were featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and six in 2019).

Beyond Artadia’s anchored program cities, we offer periodic awards with partners such as NADA, EXPO, Prospect New Orleans, and 21c Museum Hotels.

“The financial support offered by the award was crucial, but more than equal was the level of belief and support offered by the Artadia panel and staff.”

—Bethany Collins, Atlanta 2014

“Artadia has been valuable to me as a flexible action and thought partner on my projects and has introduced me to amazing curators and artists.”

—Eric Gottesman, Boston 2009
(with fellow Awardee Hank Willis Thomas)

“The Award has expanded my network of curators and artists. It allowed me to realize aesthetic ideas that would not have been possible.”

—Autumn Knight, Houston 2015

“Artadia has provided tremendous financial and social support for my practice during a time when the art market is driven by relatively conservative trends.”

—Josh Faught, San Francisco 2016

“The Award has been so instrumental in allowing me to continue pursuing significant work.”

—EJ Hill, Los Angeles 2018

“To be supported by Artadia is super important for people like me to get to the place where we have the capacity to make stuff that is directly representative of what we want to do and is only about that.”

—Terence Nance, New York 2018

THE ARTADIA PROCESS

1. OPEN CALL
The Artadia application is open for one month in each program city, is free to apply and open-call.

2. APPLICATION REVIEW
A jury of three curators assembled by Artadia, including one locally based curator, reviews all applications and determines a short list of six Finalists.

3. ROUND TWO STUDIO VISITS
A second jury, assembled by Artadia, made up of one juror from the application review and one new juror conducts virtual studio visits with each Finalist for 45 minutes.*

4. AWARDEES IDENTIFIED
Following the studio visits, the second round jury will designate three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000*, as well as access to the Artadia Network. Awardees are determined based on the sole discretion of the jury. *Marciano Artadia Awardee receives unrestricted funds of $25,000.

For their time and labor in the application process, Artadia provides honorariums to each Finalist ultimately not chosen as an Awardee.

Application Guidelines

Eligibility

Media Files

Descriptions

Physical Submissions

Collaborations

Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc. Artadia does not fund filmmakers making films for distribution in cinematic venues, or those working in choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context.
Applicants must be currently living and working within the city’s eligible counties and resided there for at least two years prior to the application deadline.*
Not currently be enrolled in an art-related degree program, nor be planning to attend an art-related degree program in the coming year.
Not be related to Artadia staff or directors in any way.
Have never received an award from Artadia or from The Art Council (Artadia’s former name). Please note that former finalists are eligible to apply.
If you are enrolled in a long-term artist residency program, please note you are only eligible to apply in the Award city where you permanently reside. Additionally, you must make yourself available to meet with jurors for a 45 minute virtual studio visit should you be chosen as a Finalist.
Unless applying as a collaborative, you must be the sole conceptual author of the artwork submitted in the application; if there are collaborators that share authorship of submitted work they must be clearly identified and credited.

*If you have temporarily relocated due to COVID-19 please email us at info@artadia.org

IMAGE FILES

You must submit eight images
All images must be formatted as .jpg files
File names may be numbered in order from 01 to 08 followed by _ (underscore), and the title of the work
The maximum file size for each image is 2 MB
The image size should be no larger than 1240 x 1240 pixels
Images should be in RGB colorspace (sRGB preferred)
File names must include the “.jpg” extension

TIME-BASED MEDIA FILES

Video submissions are limited to video art, animation, and performance documentation
Video submissions can only be up to 3 minutes total
Dance or choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context are not eligible
Feature-length commercial films and documentaries, music videos, and commercial music projects are not eligible
Please do not send documentation of sculpture or other works as video. If time-based media is not your primary medium, DO NOT use this option
If you choose to upload multiple videos within one file rather than one singular project, please provide timecode markers in your Image Details for each unique clip. For instance, “Video A” begins at 00:00, “Video B” begins at 02:30

Within your Image Details, please use practical terms to describe medium. Elaborate specific materials rather than listing “mixed media.”
Please be straightforward and clear, the more specific you are, the more a juror will be able to understand about your work.
Media: 8 images and 3 minutes of video (if applicable)
Image Details: Title, year, medium, dimensions for images and/or video submitted
C.V.: An artist’s resume containing exhibition history and bibliography
Artist Statement (optional): 100 words or less. Describe your work (medium, process, form, content, subject, themes, etc.)

Artadia does not accept physical application materials. Please do not send publications, promotional material or any other supporting documentation.

Collaboratives are welcome to apply within a single application.
One person from the collaborative should be listed as the contact person for that application.
In the address field, please enter “c/o contact name” before street address.
If you are both a member of a collective and an individual artist, you may only apply once per awards cycle.
All members of the collaborative must agree to apply for the Artadia Award and approve the use of all application materials.
All members of a collaborative team must reside in the corresponding city and meet all other eligibility requirements.

How To Apply

1. Determine your eligibility and create an account with Submittable

You can log in and out of the application  as many times as you wish before the deadline.

2. Organize
your application materials

Media: 8 images and 3 minutes of
video (if applicable)

3. Applications will be reviewed by a jury panel

During the first-round review panel, images and videos are reviewed one at a time, in succession. Jurors select six finalists to receive virtual studio visits as part of the second round review, from which the three Awardees will be selected. You will be notified if chosen as one of six finalists moving on to the second round.

You can log in and out of the application  as many times as you wish before the deadline.

Media: 8 images and 3 minutes of
video (if applicable)

During the first-round review panel, images and videos are reviewed one at a time, in succession. Jurors select six finalists to receive virtual studio visits as part of the second round review, from which the three Awardees will be selected. You will be notified if chosen as one of six finalists moving on to the second round.

Apply

ACTIVE AWARD CITIES

Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton Counties

Eligible Townships: Allston, Andover, Arlington, Belmont, Beverly, Boston, Braintree, Brighton, Brockton, Brookline, Burlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Dedham, Everett, Fall River, Framingham, Gloucester, Haverhill, Jamaica Plain, Lawrence, Lexington, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Nahant, New Bedford, Newton, Peabody, Quincy, Revere, Salem, Saugus, Somerville, Stoneham, Stoughton, Swampscott, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Wellesley, Winchester, Winthrop, and Woburn

Cook County

Harris County

Los Angeles County

The five Boroughs: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island

Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties

Artadia chooses to fund artists in cities that demonstrate a commitment to contemporary art. These cities are notable for the active presence of local artists in the community, art institutions recognized for innovative contemporary programming, a commercial art market that offers artists opportunities to show their work locally and at art fairs, and exemplary schools that prepare artists through undergraduate and graduate programs.