Lynda Ray, Wave, Encaustic on panel, 24 x 24 x 1 inches
The $1000.00 Working Artist Grant / Art Purchase Award -- Call for Artists Submissions Deadline: May 31, 2025
The Working Artist Grant / Art Purchase Award is a one-time art award intended to disperse small but vitalizing bursts of funding to support an artist's ongoing art making process.
This award is available to all artists worldwide, working in all traditional and new visual arts mediums, including but not limited to: conceptual, installation, drawing, painting, prints, sculpture, glass, mixed media, new media, photography and video. We regret that we do not accept submissions for music, performance or dance.
We make it super simple to submit your work: send us your website, or 5 images (each under 1 mb), along with your name and contact information to: submissions@workingartist.org . No written proposals or CV's are required unless the artist would like to include them. There is no application form.
There is a submission review fee of $25.00, payable here:
which helps offset the costs of this effort to fund meaningful work by serious artists.If selected as our winner, we ask that the award recipient be willing to exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion in our collection in return for our award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. We do pay the artist's shipping costs. Please send us your best work for review.
Participants agree by completing their submission to limited use of their images or other representation of their artwork and general information to be featured on this site and corresponding promotional media. All rights will be retained by the artists.
Featured Working Artist Award Recipients
Lauren Blankstein, Don't Be Shy, Acrylic, ink, pencil crayon, roofing paper, 24.5 x 23.5 inches, 2022
Robert Mirek, 801 (from Mutations series), Mixed media over basswood panel, 16 x 20 x 1.75 inches, 2023
Kevin Couliau, Giants of Africa, Photography series and limited edition art book, 2024
Hanako O'Leary, Venus Jar 10: My Beauty, Izanami Series, Clay, 13 x 9 x 9 inches, 2023
Claire Downes Whitehurst, Rockcandy, Monotype and colored pencil on kozo paper, 9 x 8 inches
Amin Pakparvar and Mehraneh Salimian, Height of the Kite, Short Documentary Film, 2024
Beizar Aradini, Americanized, Thread, 7 x 17 in. 2017
Nola Parker, Millstone 5, 16 x 12 inches, gouache on paper, 2020
Alma Haser, Twins 3, from Twins photography series, 2022
Yoonhee Choi, b-print #3, linetape on paper, 10 x 6.5 inches, 2015
Kelda Martensen, Decisions on Brightness, Monotype, Woodblock, Collage, 50 x 30 inches, 2021
Bradley Marshall, It Hurts Bc it's Cold, Steel, enamel, UV print on Acrylic, 40.5 x 28 x 34 in., 2021
Barbara Campbell Thomas, Inscape, Collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced and machine-stitched fabric, 72 x 60 in., 2020
Cameron Lings, Evidence of Consequence, from Generative Statistic Sculptures, Wood, the World's Blackest-Black Paint and a Glass Petri Dish, 2021
Michael Acker, La Primavera, Collaged photographs, Inkjet on watercolor and mulberry papers, watercolor, acrylic, 41.5 x 36.5 in., 2020
Michael DeLuca, Bridge, Pastel on paper, 9 x 7 inches, 2020
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