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Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship is a prestigious award from the Kentucky Arts Council that provides $7,500 to professional, practicing Kentucky artists creating work of high quality, excellence, and creativity. Named after the late Kentucky journalist Al Smith, the fellowship supports the advancement of artists' careers and public recognition of their contributions.
A companion $1,000 Emerging Artist Award is available to artists in the first ten years of their professional careers. Both awards rotate across artistic disciplines; the 2026 cycle is open to literary artists including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting/screenwriting. Applicants must be full-time Kentucky residents aged 21 or older.
The deadline is June 7, 2026.
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Arts council accepting applications for Al Smith Fellowship, Emerging Artist Award Arts council accepting applications for Al Smith Fellowship, Emerging Artist Award Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage sent this bulletin at 02/20/2023 05:10 PM EST Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet Lindy Casebier, Secretary Arts council accepting applications for Al Smith Fellowship, Emerging Artist Award FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb.
20, 2023) — The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting applications from literary artists for the $7,500 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship and the $1,000 Emerging Artist Award . Literary arts include fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and play/screenwriting. The deadline to apply is March 15.
The prestigious Al Smith Fellowship is named after the late Kentucky journalist Al Smith, who was also a former member of the Kentucky Arts Council’s board of directors. The fellowship is given to a professional, practicing Kentucky artist engaged in creating artwork of high quality, excellence and creativity.
The primary goal of the Al Smith Fellowship program is to directly support the advancement and continuation of Kentucky artists' careers and creative work. The Al Smith Fellowship program seeks to provide public recognition and acknowledgment of Kentucky artists creating work of high artistic merit.
The Emerging Artist Award is given to artists in the first ten years of their professional arts careers and recognizes those artists for excellence and creativity in their work. These artists possess some professional experience (i.e., exhibitions, sales, contracted/paid performances, publications/readings, etc.) but may not have established reputations as artists. Age is not a factor in determining an artist’s status as emerging.
Emerging artists are responsible for creating their own work, not interpreting the work of others or creating work under the supervision of an instructor or mentor. For more information on the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship and Emerging Artist Award , visit the program pages on artscouncil. ky.
gov or contact Tamara Coffey, the arts council’s arts program branch manager, at tamara. coffey@ky. gov or 502-892-3121.
The Kentucky Arts Council , the state arts agency, fosters environments for Kentuckians to value, participate in and benefit from the arts. Kentucky Arts Council funding is provided by the Kentucky General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Full-time Kentucky residents who are professional, working artists at least 21 years of age. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates $7,500 Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
The current target date is June 7, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
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