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Our Signature Program—USA Fellows

Annually 50 artists are named USA Fellows; each receives a $50,000 unrestricted grant.

The program supports artists in all career stages, including emerging and mid-career artists, as well as established figures. The fellowships are awarded across a broad array of disciplines:

Architecture and Design
Crafts and Traditional Arts
Dance
Literature
Media
Music
Theater Arts
Visual Arts

To read about the process of becoming a USA Fellow, click here.

USA Fellow Story:Beth Ann Fennelly

There is a poet in Oxford, Mississippi, who passes the living ghost of Faulkner on her way to the classroom where she teaches, the bedroom where she writes, the park where she pushes her daughter and son on swings. She notices everything.

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Eli and Edythe Broad

"We have learned a lot from listening and talking to artists. They see things differently. Their work is what's going on. They may not be able to predict the future, but they make statements that say where it's going, and it often does."

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