Deadline: September 17, 2003

The Flintridge Foundation ( http://www.flintridgefoundation.org/ ) established the Awards for Visual Artists to support California, Oregon, and Washington artists of the highest merit.

Through this highly competitive program, the foundation distributes biennial grants of $25,000 to five artists from California and five artists from Oregon/Washington. The primary goal of the awards program is to recognize and support artists and the process of artmaking both directly and indirectly by providing artists with more time and resources to work. The awards program is designed to encourage mature visual artists to continue to pursue artmaking; provide a meaningful financial award to individual artists; draw public recognition to artists who have been producing work of high artistic merit for two or more decades, but who have not received a level of recognition that corresponds to their merit; and to honor and promote the diversity of the visual arts in California, Oregon, and Washington

Eligible applicants are artists who have created exemplary work over a period of twenty or more years but have not garnered commensurate recognition beyond their region or outside their discipline. Artists working in visual disciplines -- fine arts, crafts media, performance, and media work based in the visual arts traditions -- are eligible. (Dance, theater, independent film and video are not eligible.) Applicants must live in California, Oregon, or Washington at least nine months per year, for the last three years to the present.

Recipients may use the awards funds as they deem appropriate to enhance their artistic capacity, talent, and development.

See the foundation's Web site for complete program and application information.

RFP Link: http://www.flintridgefoundation.org/programs/visualarts.html