Individual Excellence Award

Individual Excellence Thirty-two (32) Individual Excellence (IE) Awards were approved totaling $160,000. Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of creative artists for the exceptional merit of a body of work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community. These awards support artists’ growth and development and recognize their work in Ohio and beyond in 13 different disciplines. This fiscal year the agency began reviewing the IE Awards program’s 13 disciplines over a two-year period with alternating deadlines for two sets of disciplines. Only applications in crafts, design arts/illustration, interdisciplinary/performance art, media arts, photography and visual arts were accepted at the September 1, 2010 deadline. Amount: 5000.00