Washington state artists working in craft, literary, media and music arts are invited to apply for Artist Trust’s 2016 Fellowships.

These $7,500 awards will recognize 14 practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and demonstrated ability, acknowledging an artist’s creative excellence and accomplishment, professional achievement and continuing dedication to their artistic discipline. (Emerging fields/cross-disciplinary, performing, traditional/folk and visual arts will be offered in 2017.)

In addition to these 14 artists, Artist Trust is partnering with the Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York to award one artist in the discipline of craft and one artist in the discipline of media with one-month residencies and a $1,000 stipend. To learn more about the colony, visit www.millaycolony.org.

The application and guidelines can be found here: http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/money#fellowships. The deadline is Jan. 11, 2016. Recipients will be announced in May 2016.