Mission Statement
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation provides resources for artists, engages with community and promotes the legacy of the founding artists, Joan Beauregard and John David Ellis.
Vision Statement
The vision of the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation is to encourage, expand and sustain the courageous and imaginative dialogue that is fundamental to the arts. The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation celebrates the value of art to transcend cultures and engage with diverse communities. Through its programs, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation supports the exploration of the common ground that art occupies, the way it engages people, and its ability to reveal our shared human experience.
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Visual Arts Award
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The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation is offering a $50,000. direct unrestricted fellowship to an American artist working in the visual arts in recognition of exceptional original work. In addition will be also be invited to present a presentation of their choice in Rockland, Maine.
Criteria:
The only criterion is artistic excellence
Requirements:
Applicants must be 18 years of age or more
Applicants must have resided in the United States for at least one year prior to submission and maintain their residency during the award year.
Applicants must work in the visual arts. This includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, media arts, social practice.
Board members, staff, and their immediate family members may not apply, nor may those artists who enjoy a personal or financial relationship that would create a conflict of interest with any staff or board member of EBF.
Application process:
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Upload a resume and 10 images and/or videos.
Applications will be reviewed by a panel of experts through an anonymous review process.
Applicants will be notified by July 30, 2025 of the awardee.
Only one award will be granted annually.
Awardees may receive one fellowship award every ten years.
Please note that grant dollars are subject to taxes
The jurors for the 2025 Fellowship review are:
Alicia Knock, Head Curator for Contemporary Art and research, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Andrea Gyorody, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, Ca
Julian Rose, Writer and Critic, NYC
Marie Watt, 2024 Visual Arts Awardee, Oregon
Casey Riley, Curator of Global and Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MI