Yaritza Flores Bustos, “51 y Thomas,” 2023 – Earthenware, glaze, underglaze, stain and luster; Installation view of 2023 Arizona Artist Awards, 2023, Phoenix Art Museum (courtesy the artist).
Phoenix Art Museum has opened the annual call for submission for the institution’s Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards (Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards), a juried grant program that provides recognition and $10,000 in financial support for emerging, professional, Arizona-based artists. The Museum also announced that beginning this year with this award cycle, applicants who are not chosen for the Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards will be automatically eligible for and entered into the running for the Sette/Cohn Artist Award, a new $5,000 prize awarded to an emerging Arizona artist selected from the Lehmann Emerging Artist Award application pool.
This year’s open call will again be hosted by Artlink, a Phoenix-based arts organization who has partnered with the Museum on the institution’s Arizona Artist Awards open call for nearly a decade. The call is open from March 1 to April 30 to Arizona-based artists who wish to present their work for consideration. There is no cost to submit an application. Up to two Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients and one Sette/Cohn Artist Award recipient will be announced the week of June 30, 2025.
Applications are accepted online only and are due by 5 p.m. MST on April 30, 2025. The selection committee will award up to two Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards of $10,000 each and one Sette/Cohn Artist Award of $5,000. Lehmann Award recipients will also be invited to present work in a 2026 group exhibition at the Museum and receive a lifetime Membership to PhxArt. There is no fee to submit to the open call.
Find a submission link and additional information at https://artlinkinc.submittable.com/submit.
