Today, the Chicago-based nonprofit organization United States Artists (USA) announced the 2024 recipients of its annual fellowship program, who will each receive $50,000 in unrestricted cash awards. Founded in 2006 in response to severe budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts, USA’s flagship fellowship program has since distributed over $41 million to more than 850 artists and designers across the country. This year’s class of 50 fellows, chosen via a peer-led selection process, is based across 22 states and Puerto Rico and practice across a wide range of disciplines in the categories of architecture and design, craft, dance, film, media, music, theater and performance, traditional arts, visual art, and writing. The cohort includes five architecture and design fellows, as follows.