R2AC Fellowship Award

Maximum Award: $6,000
Opening Date for Online Application: August 15, 2022
Deadline: September 15, 2022 by 11:45 pm
Artist Panel Review Date: October 11, 2022
Final Approval Date: October 20, 2022
Earliest Start Date: November 7, 2022

Interested in applying? Have questions? View last year’s R2AC Fellowship Info Session here

The R2AC Fellowship Award is made possible the by generous support of the McKnight Foundation to provide unfettered funding to individual artists to fuel their art in Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, and Lake of the Woods counties in Minnesota.

The goal of the Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) Fellowship Program is to assist the region’s most talented artists in furthering and innovating their work by awarding financial support to fund creative time and/or arts experiences that facilitate depth and advancement in their art form. Through such support, the R2AC aims to award artistic excellence and elevate the quality of artistic work in our region. This Fellowship is intended for dedicated artists that have created a substantial independent body of work, have received recognition for their work through development, production, or publishing opportunities or awards, and whose work has been selected for solo exhibitions, commissions, presentations, readings, or performances.

Two $6,000 awards will be granted yearly.  The funds can be used for, but not limited to:

• Exploring new directions or continuing work in progress
• Production costs, materials, or equipment
• Collaborative or community projects
• Travel, research or study to further your art

Watch a tutorial video on how to start an application

Create a Login and apply online

Eligibility
Open to individual artists in all art disciplines with the required experience. Check out the eligibility statements. If all these statements are true for you, then you should be eligible to apply. If any of the eligibility statements are false for you, or you have questions of your own, contact us to discuss eligibility.

The Grant Application
The online grant application will ask a series of questions – questions about demographics which we use for reporting to the Minnesota State Arts Board (see our Data Privacy Policy), and questions based on our scoring criteria. There are also pieces needed for the grant application which you can build before you apply, such as gathering pertinent work samples (Work Sample Submission Policy), or updating your artist bio or resume.

Sample R2AC Artist Fellowship Responses

R2AC Artist Fellowship Sample packet: responses that work

R2AC Artist Fellowship application (Sample only – cannot be submitted – only online submissions are accepted)

R2AC Artist Fellowship final report – if you are awarded, this is what we expect you to tell us about after your 18 month Fellowship.