The Foundation engages each artist and arts organization in an individualized manner, addressing how emerging is defined in the context of the program and the organization. The Foundation requires full résumés of artists to assess the significance of their achievements and considers many factors in its determination of eligibility. The Foundation encourages artists and arts organizations to be specific in their applications about the factors they are using to determine eligibility as an emerging artist.
Career stage is a factor but not a limiting one. Many emerging artists fall in the early career category but not all do. Age is not a factor in determining an emerging artist.
The term emerging refers to artistic development, professional accomplishment, and recognition, not to evolution within an artist's work.
The Foundation will assess each situation in reference to the artist's intention and history of work.
