My name is Sharice Lacson and I am currently writing an Artist Statement for the 2024 Princess Grace Award. It is a cash prize for emerging artists. I am looking to write about how it doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, and how old you are, to become creative generators and make an impact on the world. I am a first generation student as my parents were immigrants from the Philippines and live in an underreppresented community called Greenville in Jersey City, New Jersey. I am 18 years old and currently a senior in high school studying film at the Ghetto Film School. I have attached essays that that I have written before for college admissions and I basically need all of them to be combined and made into an emotional, inspiration story about who I am as a person, why I want to make an impact on the world through art, how much visual storytelling (aka film) has made an impact on my life, and how I would utilize films to make an impact on other people’s lives. I have also attached a CV. I think the “Sharice Lacson – SVA Essay” document should be the thing closest to what this essay should look like and feel like. I can give you an extra day if needed.
Instructions and about the award:
Applicant Artist Statement
Please describe your current artistic work, career trajectory, and the ambitions and aspirations you hold for your artistry.
Not to exceed one page; minimum font 12pt; 1″ margins.
IDENTIFYING AND NURTURING EXTRAORDINARY EMERGING ARTISTS IN THEATER, DANCE, AND FILM.
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is dedicated to upholding the legacy of Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco, (née Grace Kelly). Her commitment to advance the arts in the United States is sustained by the Princess Grace Awards which supports and elevates extraordinary early career artists in theater, dance and film through game-changing grants; and nurtures and supports Princess Grace Award winners throughout their careers.
Evaluation of Emerging and Extraordinary
The Princess Grace Awards are for emerging artists, or artists at the onset of their careers. The Foundation looks to be a pivotal part of an artist’s trajectory. As part of the selection panel’s evaluation they may consider how the Princess Grace Award may help provide an opportunity and/or propel the artist’s career forward.
Evaluation of emerging in the application: The selection panel expects there to be enough of a body of work that the “promise of extraordinary” is evident but the artist is still at the beginning stages of their career. In its evaluation the selection panel considers the aggregate of the applicant’s work, including any shifts or recent momentum.
Please note that if the artist has received numerous awards, residencies, fellowships and/or has had numerous opportunities to present or exhibit their work especially on national/international stages and venues, the selection panel may deem the artist to have emerged.
Evaluation of extraordinary in application: In its consideration of the mission during the evaluation of Princess Grace Award applicants, the selection panel considers the promise and potential of the applicant to be extraordinary; evaluating “extraordinary” with a multi-prong definition: artistic intentionality, demonstration of technique in artistic practice, potential for innovation or impact of the artist on their field. Applicants are not expected to already be extraordinary but demonstrate the promise of extraordinary.