New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships

This Deadline Expired: Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Individual Artist Fellowships (Fellowships) are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals. Fellows are selected through a competitive evaluation process by an independent panel of peer reviewers. Panelists review the applications anonymously and score the work based solely on the artistic excellence of the work submitted as part of the application. Fellowships are not need or project-based.Fellowship awards have ranged in the past from $6,000 – $12,000.

Learn more about the different fellowships and application process here.

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based painter who strives to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently contained in each of her panels. She investigates the visual contrast and harmony where human-made structures and nature intersect. Her paintings are strongly influenced by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Kishita’s paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections, including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente. She has participated in artist residencies in New Mexico, Russia, and Iceland and exhibited at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. She holds a BFA and MFA from the University of the Arts.

Michele C. Kishita

Michele C. Kishita

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based painter who strives to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently…

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based painter who strives to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently contained in each of her panels. She investigates the visual contrast and harmony…

Mixed media artist exploring both abstract and representational compositions of cityscapes, often rendered through the use of pattern, line, and gradation.

Justin Rubich

Justin Rubich

Mixed media artist exploring both abstract and representational compositions of cityscapes, often rendered through the use…

Mixed media artist exploring both abstract and representational compositions of cityscapes, often rendered through the use of pattern, line, and gradation.…