Artist Fellowships
Supporting Individual Artists
The Tamarack Foundation for the Arts fosters in depth relationships with creatives across generations. Our Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship allows us to provide artists with intensive support as they develop their entrepreneurial skills and establish small businesses. We celebrate the work of WV treasures with the Master Artist Fellowship and look to them as examples of what’s possible with a creative career based in the Mountain State.
Master Artist Fellowship
Master Artist Fellows are celebrated for a lifetime of achievement in the arts in West Virginia. Their exemplary work over the course of decades both leads the way in artistic creation and expression and models what it takes to live your life as a successful artist in the Mountain State.
Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship
The Tamarack Foundation for the Arts’ (TFA) Creative Entrepreneur Fellows are artists who demonstrate not only a superior level of mastery in their craft, but also the aptitude to become successful professionals capable of leading well-managed creative enterprises. Fellows represent the potential for outcomes beyond the scope of their individual bodies of work and are viewed as future contributors to growing local economies and businesses that make communities more desirable places for all.
Literary Arts Fellowship
The Tamarack Foundation for the Arts (TFA) Literary Arts Fellowship is designed for emerging writers who demonstrate a high level of skill and commitment to honing their craft and hold the desire to become successful writing professionals capable of leading well-managed portfolio careers and/or small businesses in West Virginia.