2023 APPLICATION RESOURCES
Application Deadlines
- February 27, 2023
- May 15, 2023
- August 14, 2023
- November 3, 2023
All submissions are due by 12 p.m. on the quarterly deadline date.
View the 2023 DeHaan Artist of Distinction Guidelines:
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Applicants may submit a preliminary draft of their application for feedback from the Indy Arts Council grant services team. Please submit a draft by the following dates:
- February 5, 2023
- April 21, 2023
- July 28, 2023
- October 20, 2023
All draft review submissions are due by 12 p.m. on the quarterly draft deadline date.
Applicants will be notified of their status between 4-8 weeks after the quarterly deadline.
Register for a Zoom workshop:
- January 18, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. | Watch the Recording
- May 4, 2023 at 5 p.m.
- July 12, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.
- October 3, 2023 at 5 p.m.
View application resources:
Virtual:
We can answer questions during open office hours every other Tuesday from 11 a.m. to noon. Register here.
In-person at Indy Arts Council:
Join us for in-person office hours from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 23., May 11, Aug. 10, and Nov. 2, 2023. Applicants can use our WiFi, get assistance with uploading documents, and request any last minute support. No registration required.
ABOUT THE DEHAAN ARTIST OF DISTINCTION AWARD
As part of its mission, Indy Arts Council works with local foundations to support and nurture the careers of professional artists. In 2017, the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation (CDFF) and Indy Arts Council created and piloted a new juried artist grant/award program to provide quick turnaround project funding for professional artists in Indiana that promotes, celebrates, recognizes, and rewards excellence. The aim of the program is to recognize contemporary visual artists and support their exceptional projects.
The DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award Program will honor up to six contemporary visual artists with grants of up to $10,000 each year for aspirational visual arts projects. Each project must demonstrate an immediate need for the requested funds and be completed within the stated deadline. It is intended to allow a high-tolerance for risk and exploration and will provide support for an artist’s creative practice that will help them push their work in dynamic ways. Each artist will submit a final report at the end of the process and may be included in a final curated exhibition.
Boxx The Artist
Visual Artist
Boxx The Artist synthesizes expressionistic portraiture through acrylic paintings, digital art, and public installations that examines the African Diaspora providing cultural images that honor a marginalized community. Her work captures different elements of life promoting health, wealth, wellness, and celebrating Blackness.
Jennifer Scheuer
Visual Artist & Printmaker
Scheuer’s work addresses themes of history, plants, the body, and healing. She is an assistant professor of printmaking in the Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance at Purdue University. With the support of this award, she will focus her creative practice in exploration of artist books.
Jacinda Russell
Photographer & Bookmaker
Jacinda Russell is a conceptual artist, primarily working in photography and bookmaking. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Texas Gallery, Houston Center for Photography, Eyebeam, and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Jacinda will travel to the Svalbard archipelago to participate in the Arctic Circle Residency where she will create six resin sculptures depicting ice and permafrost loss in various states of disintegration.
Ian Weaver
Multimedia/Visual Artist
Ian Weaver is an artist and Associate Professor at Saint Mary's College, South Bend, IN. He has exhibited nationally, including at the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM); The Chicago Cultural Center; the South Bend Museum of Art; and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. His residencies include Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts; Ox-Bow; the ISCP Residency, New York; and Yaddo and the Millay Colony, both in upstate New York.
Shamira Wilson
Painter
Shamira Wilson is an interdisciplinary visual artist, farm apprentice, and founder of the studio Wilson Art Lab, based in Indianapolis, IN. She creates artwork based on the geometry of plants. Plants speak in signs and symbols which she translates with paint. Wilson is a member of the Impact 100 giving circle and the Eighteen Artist Collective. Her public artworks can be seen in permanent collections including Indy Arts Council and Indiana State Museum.
Ventiko
Interdisciplinary Artist
Ventiko is a conceptual artist working in photography, film, performative experiences and social practice. Her/their work focuses on de/re-constructing societal positions on identity, specifically sexuality, persona, gender and the state of the modern woman. Ventiko’s works have been exhibited and experienced internationally at art fairs (PULSE, Select, Korean International Art Fair, Sluice, Photo LA), institutions (Tate Modern, MOMA, Queens Museum, Walters Art Museum) and in the public sphere (US, UK, Serbia, Dominican Republic, and Italy).
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