2025 emerging artist fellowship

The 2025 Emerging Artist Fellowship provides financial support and professional mentorship for artists to develop their individual practices, to identify, elevate and promote Detroit-based artistic excellence. Artists will receive an exhibition and financial stipend to support them at a critical point in their career.

Three Emerging Detroit artists will be selected to receive $5,000 Fellowship Awards in 2025. The Fellowship will prioritize applications from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, and exhibition proposals that explore concepts addressing current issues and contemporary social justice topics.

Awardees that will be recognized are early-on in their careers, have ambitious goals and demonstrate artistic potential through creative risk-taking along with a clear vision of what they seek to produce and present.

Artists will be chosen based on their artistic excellence and dedication through an open call process and selected by a small professional arts jury. The goal of the fellowship is to identify, celebrate and elevate emerging Detroit artistic excellence by providing much needed resources.