Artistic Disciplines for 2026 Baker Artist Awards Season
For the 2025/ 2026 Baker Artist Awards Season the artistic disciplines on the Baker Artist Portfolios website have been reorganized.
This decision, based on data and feedback, was made in an attempt to create a more equal disbursement of artists on the site. Moving forward, artists on the Baker Artist Portfolios website will select from one of the following disciplines:
- Visual Art - 2D (painting, drawing, printmaking)
- Visual Art - 3D (sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, textile)
- Film & Photography (including video, animation, projection, digital art)
- Performing Arts (including music, dance, theatre, and performance)
- Literary Arts (including fiction, non-fiction, poetry)
- Interdisciplinary Art* (including installation art, multi-media art )
The above examples of work in each discipline are not exhaustive or strictly prescriptive. If you have a question about where your work best fits, please email [email protected].
*Please note that for our definition of Interdisciplinary Art, we are referring to individual works that combine elements from multiple different disciplines. i.e., a video installation using projected media and sound clips. If you make individual works in a variety of different disciplines, please select a primary discipline for your portfolio.
Artists with existing disciplines must login and confirm their discipline selection by November 30, 2025, in order to keep their portfolio active.
- Artists who were previously in the Music category will be moved to Performing Arts.
- Visual Artists will be required to select 2D or 3D.
- Artists working primarily in photography, who were previously in Visual Arts, should select Film & Photography.
- Artists who were previously in the Film/Video category will be placed into Film & Photography.