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2020 Master-Apprentice Artist Awardees
May 7, 2021 - July 1, 2021
2020 Master-Apprentice Artist Awardees
NEW NOMINATION DEADLINE: July 1, 2021
SFA has EXTENDED the deadline in order to reach more communities for our 2021 award. Nominate a master artist or tradition bearer today!
SFA’s Master-Apprentice Artist Awards provide direct support for master traditional artists living in Arizona to pass on art, culture, and heritage practices to apprentice learners through the annual SFA Master-Apprentice Award. The award is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and Arizona Commission on the Arts.
The Master-Apprentice Artist supports a master artist or tradition bearer to work with a qualified apprentice (or group of apprentices) to engage in a teaching-learning relationship that includes one-on-one mentorship and hands-on experience. Our highest priority is to support apprentices to learn from master artists within their own cultural traditions. Funds can be used to help cover artist fees, offset costs of raw materials, and support any travel essential to the exchange. Traditional artists & culture bearers receive a $5,000; apprentices receive $500.
Artists are first nominated by peers within their community, cultural institutions, apprentices, or by self-nomination. SFA then invite nominees to apply based on their mastery of artform, their ability to describe how that form has been recognized by their cultural community, and their ability to share traditional knowledge. Applicants include a wide variety of artists, including those working in traditions including, but not limited to:
• Handcrafts: weavers; basket makers; jewelers; makers of masks, ritual objects, textiles
• Occupational folklife: adobe makers, leather workers, iron workers, foodways workers
• Oral traditions: storytellers, poets
• Performing arts: dancers, vocalists, musicians
NOMINATION PROCESS: Artists are first nominated by peers within their community, cultural institutions, apprentices, or by self-nomination. Once a nomination has been made, SFA will invite nominees to apply. Preference is given to artforms or cultural communities not currently being supported by SFA.
LEARN MORE HERE ABOUT ELIGIBILITY AND HOW TO NOMINATE.
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