We are thrilled to partner with you in bringing the 2025 Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts to audiences across the region. Your support makes this work possible, and we want to make sharing it as seamless as we can.
Please find the following resources below:
- Downloadable South Arts logos for digital and print use
- Exhibit flyer via Canva, ready for you to add your organization's info
- Exhibit title PDF sized for vinyl or banner printing
- Sample social media posts
If you have any questions or need anything additional, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Marketing and Communications lead Hilena Haileselassie at hhaileselassie@southarts.org.
Program overview
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The Southern Prize and State Fellowships, a program launched in 2017 by South Arts, acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest-quality artistic work being created in the American South. Through an open application process, visual artists spanning South Arts’ nine-state region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee) are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. A national panel of jurors conducts blind, anonymous reviews of the applications, with ‘artistic excellence’ as the sole criterion, recommending one artist per state to receive a $5,000 State Fellowship award.
A second national panel of jurors then reviews the nine State Fellows’ work, recommending one artist for the Southern Prize, which includes an additional $25,000 cash award and a two-week residency at The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. The winner of the Southern Prize and a second $10,000 Finalist award will be announced at a ceremony celebrating the State Fellows.
South Arts is a nonprofit regional arts organization that advances creativity and innovation across the American South by supporting artists, organizations, and communities. Through grantmaking, professional development, touring exhibitions, and regional initiatives in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and state arts agencies, it expands access to the arts and strengthens cultural infrastructure throughout its nine-state region. South Arts’ Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts is supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Windgate Foundation, Southern First Bank, The Warner Fund, and many generous donors. Learn more about South Arts by visiting southarts.org.
South Arts LogO
| Optional Program logo
| exhibit title vinyl
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SAMPLE flyer flyer template
flyer on Canva
Social media sample posts
(Names and dates in sample copy are pecific to the 2025 tour)
Instagram Sample
🎨 Nine artists. Nine states. One summer at LSU Museum of Art.
South Arts’ Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts brings together some of the most compelling contemporary work being created across the American South today, on view June 4 through September 6, 2026. This year’s fellows include Edgar Cano (LA), Gonzalo Fuenmayor (FL), Felicia Greenlee (SC), Masela Nkolo (GA), Loretta Pettway Bennett (AL), Stephen Phillips (MS), Lydia C. Thompson (NC), Tabitha Arnold (TN), and Travis Townsend (KY).
Experience the South through their eyes.
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This summer, nine artists from across the American South are taking over LSU Museum of Art, and we could not be more excited to share this.
South Arts' Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts has celebrated and supported exemplary contemporary art in the South since 2017. This year's exhibition brings together nine fellows whose work reflects the full range of what Southern art looks and feels like right now, on view June 4 through September 6, 2026. This year's fellows: Edgar Cano (LA), Gonzalo Fuenmayor (FL), Felicia Greenlee (SC), Masela Nkolo (GA), Loretta Pettway Bennett (AL), Stephen Phillips (MS), Lydia C. Thompson (NC), Tabitha Arnold (TN), and Travis Townsend (KY).
Nine distinct visions. One evolving portrait of a region.
