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The New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announce the Availability of Year 2007 New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowships Guidelines and Applications

New Application Process Goes Digital – All Applications Submitted Online
Applicant Workshops to be Offered Statewide

Baltimore, MD – June 12 , 2006 – Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation announced today the immediate availability of year 2007 New Jersey State Council on the Arts individual artist fellowship guidelines and applications. The funding categories available for 2007 include: Crafts, Interdisciplinary Performance, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Prose, and Sculpture.

This year, all applications must be submitted online. Applicants can go to http://www.njartscouncil.org or http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/artists_programs/nj.html and click on the link to the NJSCA Individual Artists Fellowships Application. Applicants who do not have access to a computer can visit any County Library in New Jersey for access to the Internet and the application or call 410-539-6656 x101 for assistance. Visual artists will need to upload work sample images online and submit them with their application. Prospective applicants with specific questions regarding the online application process may contact Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: 410-539-6656 x101. The online submission deadline for applications is 11:59 p.m. Monday, July 17, 2006.

To be eligible, one must be an artist in one of the disciplines offered and a permanent New Jersey resident. Fellowships are awarded solely on the basis of artistic excellence and not other merits that may be associated with a project or other factors. If any special accommodations are required to file a NJSCA fellowship application, please call Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation at 410-539-6656 ext. 101.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation administers fellowship grants for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts on a contract basis. This is the tenth consecutive year that the Foundation has administered the fellowships. It has proven to be a cost-effective way for the Council to provide fellowships to individual artists.

In June of 2006, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts will hold six technical assistance workshops throughout the state. These workshops will address the process for applying in the categories offered for NJSCA’s 2007 Fellowships. All sites are wheelchair accessible and provide accessible parking. The workshop schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Perkins Center for the Arts at Collingswood
30 Irvine Avenue
Collingswood, NJ 08109
For directions visit: www.perkinscenter.org

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
George Street Playhouse
9 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
For directions visit: www.georgestplayhouse.org

Thursday, June 15, 2006
Hunterdon Museum
7 Lower Center Street
Clinton, NJ 08809
For directions visit: www.hunterdonartmuseum.org

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Carnegie Library/Stockton University
35 S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
For directions visit: www.stockton.edu/carnegie

Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Two River Theatre Company
21 Bridge Avenue
Red Bank, NJ 07701
For directions visit: www.trtc.org

Thursday, June 22, 2006
Jersey City Museum
350 Montgomery Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
For directions visit: www.jerseycitymuseum.org

All workshops begin at 5:30 p.m. and conclude by 7:30 p.m. See each location’s web site for directions to the workshop. You do not need to call the host organization to register for the workshop. If you are an artist with special needs or have questions about the workshops, please call Don Ehman, Program Associate for Artist Services and Access Coordinator at the NJSCA 609-984-7023 or e-mail: don@arts.sos.state.nj.us.

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is a division of the New Jersey Department of State. It receives funding through direct appropriations from the State of New Jersey and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1966, its volunteer members and professional staff have worked to improve the quality of life for New Jersey, its people and communities by helping the arts to flourish.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation fosters and supports arts programming for the benefit of arts organizations, artists and audiences and encourages exchanges that link the arts resources of the mid-Atlantic region to the rest of the nation and the world. The Foundation was created in 1979 and is a private non-profit organization that is closely allied with the region's state arts councils and the National Endowment for the Arts. It combines funding from state and federal resources with private support from corporations, foundations, and individuals to address needs in the arts from a regional perspective. The region includes nine states and jurisdictions: District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia and West Virginia.