Maryland honors the exceptional work of individual artists in the state through the Maryland State Arts Council’s annual Individual Artist Award.
During the past decade, the Maryland State Arts Council’s IAA program has awarded $2.75 million to more than a thousand Maryland artists. Administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the program reviews 18 artistic disciplines, which are separated into 3 competition groups that are awarded triennially. In FY2013, awards of $1,000, $3,000 or $6,000 –totaling more than $218,000—went to 87 artists in the categories of Fiction, Media/Digital/Electronic Arts, Painting, Theater Solo Performance and Works on Paper.
This catalogue showcases artists that received an Individual Artist Award for Painting or Works on Paper.
