""For two decades, United States Artists has advanced a simple yet powerful conviction-that artists are essential to the imagination and health of our society," said Judilee Reed, president and CEO of United States Artists in a statement. "Our commitment to unrestricted support, with programs such as the USA Fellowship, has enabled artists across every discipline and place to sustain their livelihoods, take creative risks, and define their own paths forward.""
"These were the Puerto Rico-born Chicago artist Edra Soto, whose work explores diasporic identity and colonial legacies; New Mexico-based fiber artist Eric-Paul Riege, whose work channels the weaving and ceremonial traditions of his Diné/Navajo ancestors; Macon Reed, of New Orleans, known for their immersive installations investigating structures of power through a queer and feminist lens; Philadelphia-based artist Maia Chao, whose social practice-influenced work will appear in the forthcoming Whitney Biennial;"
United States Artists announced fifty recipients of its 2026 fellowships, each receiving an unrestricted $50,000 award and access to professional development resources. Honorees represent nineteen states and Washington, DC, and work across nine disciplines: architecture and design, craft, dance, media, music, theater and performance, traditional arts, visual art, and writing. Six visual-arts fellowships went to artists examining diasporic identity, Indigenous weaving and ceremonial traditions, queer and feminist power structures, social practice, Tongva ancestry and visibility, and clay and sound works about migration. Other honorees include a Los Angeles filmmaker exploring queer Muslim experience and a New Jersey cartoonist.
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