Attention Chicagoland Artists! Artist support available
05/12/20
Artadia is a national non-profit organization that identifies innovative visual artists and supports them with unrestricted financial awards and connections to a network of opportunities.
The Artadia Award is an unrestricted grant of $10,000 that is offered to visual artists in six cities across the country, including Chicago. The application for the Chicago Artadia Awards has just been launched. Learn more about Artadia here ; the application can be found here.
The Chicago Artadia Awards are open to all visual artists living and working throughout Cook County, IL. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all media and at any stage in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Artadia Awardees are selected through a two-tier jury process that combines local expertise with outside perspective from leading curators and artists. A preliminary panel will evaluate all online submissions and select five finalists in June. A second panel will conduct studio visits with each finalist, gaining a broader context for the artists’ work.
Two awardees will be selected from the finalist pool to receive unrestricted awards of $10,000 each. The 2020 Chicago Awardees will be announced in early July. Prior Chicago Artadia Awardees may be viewed on the Artadia Artist Registry.
The Chicago Artadia Awards are:
- Open to anyone living in Cook County, IL
- Free of application fees and project outline requirements
- Unrestricted
Apply if you:
- Have lived in Cook County for at least two years
- Are not currently enrolled in an art-related degree program
- Would like to have your work seen by a panel of prominent curators
Application Deadline: June 1, 2020 - 11:59 pm CST
About the Awards:
Artadia has active awards programs in the following cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles*, New York, and San Francisco. Awards are granted in participating cities on a rotating basis. Artadia Awards amount to $10,000 and are unrestricted: the award money can be used however the artist sees fit.
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
• Exemplary schools that prepare artists through undergraduate and graduate programs
*The Los Angeles Awards cycle includes a third award, a $25,000 unrestricted grant.