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(I totally forgot to post about this sooner. My apologies. If you know any Artist with Disabilities in the midwest USA, send this their way!!! It's going to reoccur in 2024 and 2025. I don't have any connection with ArtsMidwest, just wanted to put the info here for others.)

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Submission Deadline: May 22, 2023

Award Info: $3,000

Type: Grants & Fellowships

Eligibility: Regional; Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Native Nations that share this geography.

Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture

Description:

Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities, an award supporting accessibility in the arts and celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

The Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities supports and celebrates accessibility in the arts. It recognizes that the funding community in the Midwest has not historically invested in disabled artists and that increasing support for this group is an important part of increasing accessibility in the arts. It also advocates for the arts being viable employment, which is often overlooked by funding agencies supporting people with disabilities.

There are no requirements for how awarded funds are used, though awardees are encouraged to use it toward growing their art career. Awardees’ submitted work will be featured on the Arts Midwest website.  

From 2023–2025, this award will recognize 27 individuals (9 per year).

Eligibility Info:

We invite mid-career 2D and 3D visual artists with disabilities to apply for this award.

“Adolph Gottlieb: A New Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper” opens March 31st at the American Contemporary Art Gallery in Munich, Germany, and will run through June 29th, 2017.

Above:

In 1967, Adolph Gottlieb was invited to serve on the jury to select an artist to create a work of public art in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The panel, with Gottlieb's endorsement, decided on Alexander Calder who then produced his seminal work “La Grande Vitesse” in 1969. This was the first work of public art funded by the National Endowment for the Arts program, Art in Public Places.

“In my studio, I am in a non-verbal world. Surrounded by my materials: canvas, paints, oils, brushes, etc. I feel like a relic of the past because paintings are still among the few things made by hand. Yet with these crude implements it seems possible to convey something of a spirit that transcends our mundane and often brutal environment. Perhaps even the emanation of a divine spark may become manifest.”

Adolph Gottlieb

This postcard c. 1937 from Adolph and Esther Gottlieb was addressed to the artist Paul Bodin, and refers to their friends, artists Milton and Sally Avery. This postcard reads:

“Rented a farm house and are enjoying all the comforts of home. Spent first few days at boarding house and decided we preferred house keeping. Only a few miles from the Averys. Decided to let my checks wait till I return. Swell landscape and doing sketches and watercolors. Till today it’s been hot here too. How are you all?

Now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( @metmuseum ), in Gallery 919 (Modern and Contemporary Art):

Adolph Gottlieb T 1950 Oil on canvas 48 x 36”

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