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Announcing the 2024 Fellowship Award Recipients
Published: March 12, 2024
Categories: Featured | Grants & Fellowships
$150,000 to 15 artists across five Washington State counties
We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Artist Trust Fellowship Awards! Artist Trust Fellowships are merit-based awards of $10,000 providing unrestricted support to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and ability residing in Washington State. The first Artist Trust Fellowship Awards were selected in 1987, making it our longest-running award program.
About this year’s Awards
For the 2024 Awards, we received 305 applications from 23 different counties across Washington State. An independent panel of practicing artists representing a range of disciplines then reviewed this year’s applications and met virtually over two days to select the awardees.
About the 2024 Recipients
The recipients of the $10,000 Fellowship Award include literary artists Joyce Chen, Kate Lebo, and Maya Jewell Zeller; media artists Jake Morgan-Scharon, Nicole Pouchet, James Pakootas, Julio Ramírez-Ramos, and Melinda Raebyne; performing artists Janani Balasubramanian and Peggy Piacenza; and visual artists Ai-Chun Huang, Fumi Amano, C. Davida Ingram, Jiemei Lin, and Rafael Soldi.
James Pakootas and CarliAnn Forthun Bruner, Western Arts Alliance 2023 Booking Conference
Jiemei Lin, Watering, mixed media on canvas and rice paper, 48″ x 72″, 2024.
“Building power from within and maintaining autonomy of our own stories is vital to my culture’s survival. The grant award allows me the ability to build stories within my own community. I will be able to pay collaborators when the story arc calls for collaboration, I will pay elders for their time in sharing tribal history, family history, and moments of cultural significance that will inform my creative process.”
– James Pakootas, 2024 Vadon Foundation Fellowship for Native Artists Recipient
More information about the 2024 Fellowship recipients and selection panelists is listed below. Click the links below to view biographies and work for each award recipients.
2024 Artist Trust Fellowship Recipients
Vadon Foundation Fellowship for Native Artists 2024
James Pakootas
Spokane County
2024 Fellowship Selection Panelists:
Ryan Craig, Yakima County
Ayn Gailey, San Juan County
Salome MC, King County
d.k. pan, King County
Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, Spokane County
Thank you to our donors & partners!
The 2024 Artist Trust Fellowship Awards are made possible through generous donations and community partnerships. In 2024, partners include The Lillian Miller Educational Foundation, The Vadon Foundation, and long-time donors Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom, whose transformational endowment gift funds the Artist Trust Fellowship for Black Artists and The Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom Fellowship Award in perpetuity. To join this family of supporters, visit artisttrust.org/donate.
Artist Trust’s support of artists, including the Fellowship program, is made possible thanks to donations from the community. The 2024 Artist Trust Fellowship Awards were made possible by: 4Culture, Joan Alworth and Peter Ackroyd, Eve and Chap Alvord, The Estate of Nancy Alvord, Amazon Community Affairs, ArtsFund, ArtsWA, Artist Trust Board of Trustees, Samuel Chapin, Conru Foundation, CERF+ with funding from the Mellon Foundation, Stephanie Ellis-Smith and Doug Smith, Katharyn Gerlich, Phyliss Hatfield, Mattie Iverson, Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, The Klorfine Foundation, Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom, Christopher and Alida Latham, The Lillian Miller Educational Foundation, Lorna Jordan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Olympic Hot Tub, Mary Pigott, Roy H. and Natalie C. Roberts Family Foundation, Scan Design Foundation, The Vadon Foundation, Susan Wagner, Merrill Wagner Ryman, and Donald and Mary Wieckowicz
Each of these extraordinary partners made an unrestricted gift of $10,000 or more to Artist Trust or gave specifically to create a dedicated Fellowship Award. To join them, contact info@artistrust.org
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Image: Peggy Piacenza, 2024 Fellowship Recipient