The NAC Individual Artist Fellowships (IAF) program recognizes exemplary career achievements by Nebraska artists. The IAF program supports originating artists in their respective fields by providing public recognition and monetary awards.

 

The IAF program focuses on various major artistic disciplines on a three-

rotation, including Visual Arts, Literature, and Filmmaking and Performing Arts.

 

The 2015 Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature awardees are:

 

$5,000 Master Artist Award
Paul Dickey, Poetry (Omaha)

 

$4,000 Distinguished Artist Award
Lindsey Baker, Poetry (Omaha)

 

$3,000 Distinguished Artist Award
Terry L. Schifferns, Fiction (Gibbon, NE)

 

$2,500 Distinguished Artist Award
Erik Campbell, Poetry (Lincoln)
Lisa Knopp, Nonfiction (Lincoln)

$1,000 Merit Award
Kailee Marie Pedersen, Nonfiction (Lincoln)
Amy Knox Brown, Fiction (Lincoln)
Kelly Madigan, Poetry (Lincoln)