KNBA helps celebrate this year’s winners at the Eleventh year of the Individual Artists Awards Program. They represent 13 different communities across Alaska including Anchorage, Klawock, Ester, Fairbanks, Barrow, Homer, Juneau, Soldotna, North Pole, Haines, Ketchikan, Nome and Sitka.
This is the eleventh year of the Individual Artist Awards program and, as of today, the program has awarded 338 grants, totaling more than $2.7 million, directly to Alaska artists. The purpose of the awards is to allow artists to seek a variety of creative opportunities, including providing them with the time necessary to focus on creative work.