What kinds of artists receive fellowships?
There is no typical Bush Artist Fellow. The program is open to artists at every stage in their life’s work-from emerging to mature. Each year usually there are some artists at the beginning of their careers. Some fellows may be established in their work and at a much later stage. Most fellows tend to be at mid-career. There are no quotas that the panels need to fill. In other words, they don’t choose an equal number of fellows from each of the artistic disciplines, or based on where they live, their age, race, or any other way in which a quota might be defined. The panels are instructed to select the artists whom they collectively believe are the strongest among the group being considered and for whom the fellowship will make a significant difference at this point in their lives.
