Grants:Arts Commentary Awards


A.M. Weaver received an award for a look at the influence of feminism on four contemporary women sculptors at the forefront of the American arts mainstream. Photo: Glenn Hudson.

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.

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

How to Apply

Arts Commentary applications are no longer being accepted. Arts Commentary will be offered again in 2011-2012. Applications will be available in June 2011.

In the interim, the 2008-09 guidelines are available for review.

For information about the PCA Fellowship program in general or other fellowship categories, contact PCA.

Also See...

  • Humanities Grants: For programs designed by nonprofits committed to lifelong learning
  • PCA's website: For more on the Council's initiatives, partnerships, and responsive funding programs