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United States Artists is giving $50,000 unrestricted fellowships to these artists working in rural, suburban, urban, and Tribal communities across nineteen states, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

These artists are architects, choreographers, culture bearers, dancers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, sculptors, singers, storytellers, theater makers, and writers, as well as artists working across, between, and outside of those disciplines. They span every career stage, ranging in age from their 20s to their 90s.

But what they have in common is that they are our neighbors. They are a part of their communities: they create, hold, and share the images, movements, and stories that help make us who we are. They help us celebrate, mourn, and understand our world a little more.

2023 USA Fellows Geography

As you spend time with the Fellows’ work, you will marvel at how they enact joy, beauty, and healing through their processes, performances, and pedagogy. They are deep listeners and problem solvers who are devoted to their craft. They encourage us to be comfortable in our bodies, to be unabashedly ourselves, and to reach for each other at a time when isolation looms large.

Working at the edge of what seems possible, these artists help us remember our shared histories and guide us as we navigate toward our collective future. They do not want us to only bear witness; they are calling on us to participate and build alongside them.

Many 2023 Fellows have practices that carefully consider placemaking and the environment, centering reciprocity and gratitude for the plentitude of the land and the communities that depend on it.

These artists maintain an unparalleled devotion to craft, building new understandings of material and to ensuring knowledge is preserved and passed down to future generations.

These artists bring beauty and healing through performance and ritual to using art as a therapeutic vehicle and a balm for their communities.