Artist Fellowships
Notable Fellows
Since its inception in 1975, the Artist Fellowships Program has recognized and fostered the vital creative work of hundreds of exceptional individual artists.
Over the years, many artists of national and international prominence have received support from the Artist Fellowships, including:
- Steve Almond (2008), author of Candyfreak
- Karen Aqua (2011), animator and filmmaker
- Michael and Maureen Banner(2003), silversmiths
- Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (2011), filmmakers, Sweetgrass
- Frank Bidart (1981), poet, winner of the Wallace Stevens Award
- Rita Mae Brown (1977), author of Rubyfruit Jungle
- Andrew Bujalski (2003), indepent filmmaker
- Alexander Chee (2010), author of Edinburgh
- Migdalia Cruz (2005), playwright, El Grito Del Bronx
- Andre Dubus (1976), author of In the Bedroom
- Janet Echelman (2009), nationally renowned public artist
- Donal Fox (1989), composer and jazz musician
- Jonathan Franzen (1986), author of The Corrections
- Elizabeth Graver (2006), author of Awake
- Gish Jen (1987), author of Typical American
- Denis Johnson (1983), winner of the National Book Award
- Mary Karr (1987), author of The Liars’ Club
- Shirish Korde (2011), composer
- Melinda Lopez (2003), playwright, Sonia Flew
- Taylor Mac (2013), theatre artist
- Rania Matar (2011), photographer
- Ross McElwee (2005), filmmaker, Bright Leaves
- Sue Miller (1984), author of While I Was Gone
- Abelardo Morell (1995), photographer
- Tim O’Brien (1976), author of The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato
- Tom Perrotta (1998), author of Election and Little Children
- Rachel Perry (2009), conceptual artist
- Carl Phillips (1990), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Robert Pinsky (1977), former U.S. Poet Laureate
- Salvatore Scibona (2006), author of The End
- Jim Shepard (2002), writer, winner of the Story Prize
- Jimmy Slyde (2006), American jazz tap artist
- Lewis Spratlan (1975), Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
- Stephen Tourlentes (2011), photographer
- Carrie Mae Weems, MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning photographer
- Kevin Young (2010), poet, For the Confederate Dead
- Evan Ziporyn (2011), composer
