Grants:Arts Commentary Awards


Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou received a Project Award for school presentations on how children around the world make music.

Project Awards for Individuals
Arts Commentary: Perspectives on the Arts fosters nonfiction work which educates the broad general public about the contemporary arts. The program also promotes arts commentators' endeavors to reach new or larger audiences.

Arts Commentary projects concentrate on the contemporary arts or issues of significance to the arts today. Funded projects explore many perspectives of the arts; educate the public by interpreting the significance of the arts and examining them from critical or historical perspectives; and lead to presentations for the public—publications, media projects and educational programs.

The program recognizes work in all media and is open to the full range of Pennsylvanians producing arts commentary—journalists, broadcast and electronic media professionals, filmmakers, artists, scholars, arts educators and nonprofit professionals.

Arts Commentary is one of the few initiatives in the U.S. dedicated to arts criticism. It is a partnership between PHC and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and is part of PCA's Individual Creative Artists Fellowship program.

View 2006-2007 Award Recipients

View 2000-2005 Award Recipients and Jurors

Funding
Each Arts Commentary fellowship recipient receives an award of $5,000.

How to Apply

Arts Commentary will be offered again in 2008-2009. The application will be available in June 2008. To receive it by mail, contact the PHC.

In the meantime, download the 2006-2007 guidelines [PDF, 1.2MB].

For information about other PCA Fellowship categories, contact the PCA

Questions about the PCA Fellowship program in general should be directed to Lori Frush Schmelz, Program Director at the PCA. Lori may be reached at lschmelz@state.pa.us or 717-787-6883 x3027.

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