Two Louisiana artists have won $5,000 and placement in a Georgia-based fellowship program for a chance to win $25,000.
South Arts, based in Atlanta, is a nonprofit regional arts organization with a mission to empower artists and increase access to arts and culture. The nonprofit chooses 18 artists every year for its fellowship program, nine visual artists and nine literary artists. Of the 18 awardees, two are from Louisiana: Karisma Price, a New Orleans-based writer, and Edgar Cano Lopez, a visual artist from Natchitoches.
Price and Lopez won a cash prize, placement in the Southern Prize and State Fellowships program and the opportunity to compete with other fellows for the $25,000 award, which will be announced later this year.
Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University and author of “I’m Always So Serious,” a New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick. She is a 2025 Whiting Award Winner in Poetry and a 2023 winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review.
2025 South Art fellowship winner Edgar Cano Lopez
Cano is an assistant professor of art at Northwestern University. He has work exhibited in countries including Mexico, Italy, Japan, Serbia and Sweden. Practicing art for over 20 years, Cano most recently won the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant in 2025.
The Southern Prize & State Fellowships, established in 2017, annually awards artists across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
