The Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Arts are pleased to announce the selection of five U.S. artists for the 2025-26 26 U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship Program
The artist fellows will travel to Japan during 2025 and 2026 to pursue their three to five-month residency. Since 1978, the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts have worked with the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan and the International House of Japan (I-House) to organize this fellowship program, supporting more than 200 U.S. artists who represent a wide range of disciplines.
The 2025-26 U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Program Fellows are:
Isak Immanuel/Marina Fukushima
About the Japan-United States Friendship Commission: The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission is a U.S. federal government agency. JUSFC was established as an independent federal government agency by the United States Congress (P.L. 94-118) in 1975 to strengthen the U.S.-Japan relationship through educational, cultural, and intellectual exchange. JUSFC is a grant-making agency that supports research, education, public affairs and exchange with Japan. Its mission is to support reciprocal people-to-people understanding and promote partnerships that advance common interests between the United States and Japan. JUSFC also serves to maintain expertise on Japan Studies throughout U.S. academic and professional institutions.
About the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was established in Congress in 1965, as an independent federal agency that is the largest funder of the arts and arts education in communities nationwide and a catalyst of public and private support for the arts. By advancing opportunities for arts participation and practice, the NEA fosters and sustains an environment in which the arts benefit everyone in the United States. The NEA’s primary activities include grantmaking to nonprofit arts organizations, public arts agencies and organizations, colleges and universities, federally recognized tribal communities or tribes, and individual writers and translators.