United States Artists

The organization's stated mission is "Believe in Artists".{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/about/|title=United States Artists » About|access-date=2020-04-14}} In addition, the organization asserts that "USA Fellowships honor and award an artist's unique vision as a whole rather than funding a particular project. Artists at different career levels, from emerging to established, are eligible."{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/award/|title=United States Artists » Award|access-date=2020-04-14}}

Established in 2019, The Berresford Prize is an unrestricted $50,000 award given annually to a cultural practitioner who has contributed significantly to the advancement, well-being, and care of artists in society. Awardees to date include Maori Karmael Holmes, Louise Erdrich, Lulani Arquette, Roberto Bedoya, Linda Goode Bryant and Kristy Edmunds.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/awards/berresford-prize/|title=United States Artists » Berresford Prize|access-date=2020-04-14}}

{{See also|List of United States Artists Fellowship recipients}}

USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States at every stage of their career. Grants are awarded annually to artists working in ten disciplines:

• Architecture & Design
• Craft
• Dance
• Film
• Media
• Music
• Theater & Performance
• Traditional Arts
• Visual Art
• Writing{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/award/|title=United States Artists » Award|access-date=2020-04-14}}

Every year, a geographically diverse group of nominators consist of scholars, critics, arts administrators, producers, curators, artists, field experts, and other cultural professionals are asked to nominate those they think deserve the USA fellowship. Then, the nominees are invited to submit applications with work samples, which are reviewed by a selected groups of discipline-specific panels composed of artists, curators, historians, experts, academics, and producers. After the panels select the finalists, the Board of Trustees go over the finalists together and approve.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/award/|title=United States Artists » Award|access-date=2020-04-14}}

Every year, USA invites each year's class of awardees to connect them with their donors, stakeholders and community partners. This is a three-day retreat that includes presentations by USA fellows, a keynote by the Berresford Prize recipient, and various workshops designed to provide artists care for themselves and their practices.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/programs/|title=United States Artists » Programs|access-date=2020-04-16}}

Anthology is an annual publication produced by interns at USA. Each edition highlights different themes working with each year's class of USA Fellows and provides deeper connections and understandings of them through the glimpse of their daily life. The first edition, [https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/programs/anthology/2019-a-slow-unfolding-tess-hartonik-isabelle-martin-whitney-mash/ A Slow Unfolding] (2019), covers a theme of  "Nourishment" and the second edition, [https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/programs/#anthology Grazing: A Nationwide Study of Artists and Their Snacks] (2020), explores the relationship between artists and their snacks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/programs/|title=United States Artists » Programs|access-date=2020-04-16}}

To support artists during the COVID-19 pandemic, USA and a group of national arts grant makers created an emergency fund to offer financial aid and useful informational resources for artist across the country.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artistrelief.org/|title=Artist Relief|website=Artist Relief|access-date=2020-04-16}}

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• [http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/ United States Artists website]
• [http://www.interiordesign.net/index.asp?layout=preview&articleID=CA6512549/ Nicholas Tamarin, "United States Artists Awards $50,000 Grants," Interior Design]
• Mario Rosario Jackson, Florence Kabwasa-Green, Daniel Swenson, Joaquin Herranz, Kadija Ferryman, Caron Atlas, Eric Wallner, Carole Rosenstein: [http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411311 Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists]. The Urban Institute, May 2, 2006.

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