Please join us in congratulating OPEEP Program Coordinator Babette Cieskowski who was recently awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for poetry!
Board members of the Ohio Arts Council’s (OAC) Executive Committee met in February and approved 75 grants for Ohio artists through the OAC’s Individual Excellence Awards program. Grant funding totals $375,000 for state fiscal year 2024.
The Individual Excellence Awards program recognizes outstanding accomplishments by artists in a variety of disciplines. Awards give artists the resources to experiment and explore their art forms, develop skills and advance their careers, and receive affirmation and acknowledgment for outstanding work.
During this funding cycle, applications in choreography, criticism, fiction, non-fiction, music composition, playwriting/screenplays, and poetry were accepted. Each award is $5,000, with one collaborative award being shared.
Individual Excellence Award funding recommendations are made through an anonymous, open panel review process focused on the exceptional merit of past artistic work. This year, nearly 500 applications were received from artists across the state.
“On behalf of the Ohio Arts Council, I want to congratulate this year’s Individual Excellence Award recipients. Their work continues to exemplify Ohio’s wealth of exceptional artistic talent and demonstrates that artists can thrive in our great state,” said OAC Executive Director Donna S. Collins.
A complete, alphabetized list by city and discipline of Individual Excellence Award recipients in this funding cycle follows. A filterable spreadsheet is also available for download.
Read the full statement here on the Ohio Arts Council website.
