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Read below for tips on how to make your next NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship application stand out from the crowd, courtesy of the NYFA Grants team.

Read the Application Guidelines and Discipline Specific Guidelines thoroughly!

Ensure you meet all Eligibility requirements:

You are at least 25 years or older.

You are a current New York State resident, and/or a resident of one of the Indian Nations located therein.

You have lived in New York State, and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein for the past two consecutive years: all of 2021 & 2022.

If you are a past NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, none of the work samples you have submitted have previously received an award.

You are not currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program of any kind.

You are the originator of the artwork submitted.

You have not received a Fellowship in the last five years, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

If you are applying as a collaboration (up to 3 artists working together on a regular basis) all names are listed in your application form.

If you have applied in more than 1 category (applicants can apply in up to 2 categories each cycle), you have indicated this in your application form.

You are not a NYFA employee, a member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, immediate family member of any of the above, or an immediate family member of a 2022/2023 panelist.

Before you upload your VISUAL ARTS Work Samples (Disciplines: Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design,Craft/Sculpture, Interdisciplinary Work, Painting, Photography, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts), check to make sure:

Image files are .jpg

Your images are not pixelated, and that they are in focus

Your name is not present anywhere in your descriptions or file names

Your files are numbered 01 to 10 in the order you want them to be reviewed

You’ve added descriptions to your work samples where necessary

All of your work sample files are less than 4MB

Any detail images are clearly labeled as “detail” in the title of the image

No more than 10 artworks are represented in your application

Before you upload your LITERARY Work Samples (Disciplines: Fiction, Nonfiction Literature, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Poetry), check to make sure:

Your work sample file is a .pdf

You have included up to 20 pages, 12 point font, double spaced (poetry submission can be spaced at the artist’s discretion)

You have included one title page with the title of the work and the date of completion

Your name is not present anywhere in your descriptions, file names, or title page

You have not included any scanned excerpts from books or periodicals in published form

Your manuscript is in English

Ensure that the work you have selected is your strongest, remembering you don’t need to include all 20 pages if your work is represented with fewer

Do not include a Résumé or CV in your .pdf

Before you upload your MEDIA Work Samples (Disciplines: Choreography, Digital/Electronic Arts, Folk/Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary Work, Music/Sound, Video/Film), check to make sure:

Image files are .jpg, video files are .mov/mp4, and/or audio files are .mp3/.mp4/.wav/.aiff

Video/audio links and passwords (if applicable) should be valid until Summer 2023

Your images are not pixelated, and that they are in focus

Your name is not present anywhere in your descriptions or file names

Your image files are numbered 01 to 10 and your videos and/or audios are numbered 01 & 02

You’ve added descriptions to your work samples where necessary

All of your images work sample files are less than 4MB & videos and/or audios are less than 2GB

Any detail images are clearly labeled as “detail” in the title of the image

Before you upload your Work Statement, check to make sure:

Your work statement is concise, referencing only the work in your application

Your statement doesn’t use “art speak”

You use simple clear language, with concrete descriptions

You avoid quoting or referencing other artists by name

You do not use speculative language such as “I am trying to, or I seek to…” but rather, “I am.”

Before you upload a Technical Statement (optional), check to make sure:

You describe how your work would be produced in its intended medium

If your work should be viewed or interacted with in a certain way, you explain this here

If your work uses specialty equipment, explain why and how it was used

If need be, you have itemized each work or group of works to better explain your work samples

Before you upload an Excerpt Explanation (optional), check to make sure:

You have explained the work samples submitted and contextualized their placement within your larger work

Your excerpt explanation does not repeat your work statement

Within the excerpt explanation you can itemize each submitted work sample and talk about them individually.

Upload a Cultural Statement (optional):

This statement should outline how your work is connected to a cultural community. You should only use this statement if you feel it is integral to the interpretation of the work.

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