Nominate an Artist, Culture Bearer, Writer, Creator, or Performer (Or Yourself!) for a $6,000 R2Arts Fellowship
If you are an artist, culture bearer, writer, creator, or performer or if you know one who should be considered for a Fellowship award, please email (staff@r2arts.org) text (218-407-2507), or call (218-751-5447) Region 2 Arts Council with your nomination, or stop by our office or our website www.r2arts.org to fill out a nomination form.
As part of the nomination, please include:
The nominee’s name
Their contact information (active email and/or phone number)
Their county of residence (if known)
Their creative discipline (musician, jeweler, writer, actor, sculptor, poet, painter, dancer, filmmaker, etc.)
What makes them a great candidate
As the nominator, please include
Your name
Your contact information (active email and/or phone number)
Whether you’d like to remain anonymous to the review committee
Whether you’d like to remain anonymous to the nominee
After nominations have closed on September 1, 2025, R2Arts staff will solicit the nominees for a statement about their creative practice, samples of their work, and a resume or biography centered on their work as an artist, culture bearer, writer, creator, or performer. Two Fellows will be selected by the Region 2 Arts Council Board of Directors from the nominees.
Artists must be 21 years or older and live in Minnesota’s Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, or Mahnomen Counties. Artists who have received an Artist Fellowship or a Career Development Fellowship from Region 2 Arts Council in the past are not eligible to receive this award. The intent of the Fellowship Award is to honor and celebrate individuals who show excellence and dedication to their creative practice, and who also have a substantial independent body of work, public performances, presentations, exhibitions or publications of original work, and awards or other acknowledgement of their work such as selection for commissions, film festivals, artist residencies, peer learning or exchange opportunities. Visit our website for more details on eligibility.
The goal of the Region 2 Arts Council Fellowship Program is to celebrate the region’s most talented and creative individuals and assist them in furthering and innovating their work by awarding financial support to fund creative time and facilitate depth and advancement in their creative discipline. Through such support, R2Arts aims to honor and award creative excellence and elevate the quality of artistic work in our region. The R2Arts Fellowship Award is made possible the by generous support from the McKnight Foundation.