Individual Artist Awards Program

Note: The Foundation has temporarily paused grantmaking. The timing of the next cycle of the Individual Artist Awards will be announced in mid-2024. The IAA program will not open for applications this winter. Read more here.

Rasmuson Foundation honors the merit and significance of a life dedicated to serious artistic exploration and growth. We believe an artist’s energy, ideas and creative drive become more fully realized with time devoted to experimentation, education and personal reflection. We also acknowledge artists need opportunities to explore at various stages of their artistic careers.

The Individual Artist Awards provide Alaska artists funding to support the time, reflection, immersion or experimentation beneficial to the development of their artistry. It is our hope that these investments result in substantial contributions to Alaska’s culture, the vibrancy of our communities and to art itself.

2022 awardees share
what “Art is …”

Pictured: “How I Wonder Where You Are,” an interior view of beadwork by Beth Blankenship

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Our award programs for individual artists living and working in Alaska include:

Project Awards

Awards of $10,000 for emerging, mid-career, and established artists in all disciplines for specific, short-term projects that have a clear benefit to the artist and the development of their work.

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