Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting
Washington
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artists
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working in all creative disciplines. Artist Trust provides artists the time and resources necessary to prosper. Since 1987 it has invested over ten million dollars in grants, resources and career training to thousands of Washington State's most promising and respected musicians, visual artists, writers, dancers, craft artists, filmmakers, cross-disciplinary artists and more. It is located in
Seattle
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, Washington, and serves the entire state.
Background and programs
Artist Trust was founded in 1987 by a group of artists and artist supporters who sought a creative way to remedy the lack of support for individual artists of all disciplines in Washington State. It is the only organization in Washington State, and one of few throughout the country, that provides grants directly to individual artists. Artist Trust serves thousands of artists annually through its core programs of Grants and Information Services.
Artist Trust's Creative Career Center provides career training and professional development necessary for artists, including information on funding, health care, opportunities, legal issues, housing and studio space, and more. It offers workshops on grant-writing and resources for artists throughout the year, as well as the comprehensive EDGE Professional Development Program.
The GAP program provides funding for art projects, career training and workshops. Artist Trust also presents the annual Twining Humber Award, an award of $10,000 for female visual artists over the age of 60.
The award is funded by a donation from painter
Yvonne Twining Humber
Yvonne Twining Humber (December 5, 1907 – May 13, 2004) was an American artist.
She was born in New York City in 1907, and was influenced by Impressionism, Impressionist and Regionalism (art), Regionalist painters through her education at the N ...
, and has been award to Washington-based artists such as
Fay Jones,
Barbara Noah,
Debora Moore,
Ross Palmer Beecher, and
Marita Dingus.
In October 2016, painter
Ari Glass
Ari Glass (born 1989) is an American painter, designer and musician.
Biography
Glass grew up in the Rainier Valley, Seattle. Glass attended art classes at Franklin High School and briefly studied graphic design at Seattle Central College, b ...
was featured at the 30th birthday of Artist Trust.
Funding
Artist Trust is supported by the Gene & Liz Brandzel Fellowship & EDGE Scholarship,
Sowing the Seeds, and the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation.
References
External links
Paul Kuniholm Grant RecipientArtist Trust websiteArtist Trust Receives 2009 Mayor's Arts Award
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Non-profit organizations based in Seattle