Short Description
Miami’s premier visual arts awards have been redesigned to celebrate the individual creativity of South Florida Artists.
The Ellies, Oolite Arts Awards are designed to celebrate and recognize artists’ careers in a variety of visual arts practices. These awards are offered in four categories to support South Florida working and emerging artists, art educators, established and professionally accomplished artists in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe counties.
The Ellies, Oolite Arts Awards consist of four categories: Creator Awards, Teacher Travel Awards, A Better World Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Eligibility
Only the Creator and Teacher Travel Awards are eligible for application. Oolite’s A Better World Award and Lifetime Achievement Award are by nomination only.
For the Creator Award, artists of any level of experience living in South Florida can apply. For the Teacher Travel Award, any certified art teacher who is currently living and working full-time at a South Florida public, magnet, or charter school can apply.
Applicants must be 18 years of age or older and must be a US citizen or a lawful permanent resident.
How to Apply
Apply for Teacher Travel Award
Program Benefits & Awards
- Creator Awards: These awards will support individual artists with funds of $10,000 to utilize however they want. Rather than being tied to a specific project, Creator Awards are unrestricted grants to support South Florida’s remarkable artists in whatever way they best choose to support their artistic practice.
- Teacher Travel Awards: Teacher Travel Awards provide K-12 art teachers with $5,000 each in funds for travel that will enrich their classroom curriculum. By encouraging teachers to explore and then share their art experiences with their students, these awards will help create the audiences that our museums and arts organizations need to thrive.
- A Better World Award: A Better World Award winner makes South Florida a better, stronger, more united community through their creative works. Recipients of this award will exemplify the power of art to not only reflect the world, but to transform it. The Oolite Arts A Better World Award recognizes local artists whose work contributes meaningfully to:
- Social justice
- Environmental sustainability
- Mental health and healing
- Cultural preservation or innovation
- Community empowerment
- Inclusiveness
- Global awareness or peacebuilding
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Inspired by Michael Richards: The Oolite Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, Inspired by Michael Richards recognizes and rewards artists who have created a body of original work of art over a sustained period of time and have received critical and community acclaim. Lifetime Achievement winners have expanded their careers into the global community and brought the global community to South Florida.
Entry Fee
None
Location
South Florida, United States
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 17 September 2025
Website Link: https://oolitearts.org/oolite-arts-awards/
