U.S. Mint Chooses Artist Corps

While many of the artists are returning members, four new artists were selected based on the artistic merit of their applications during a national call for artists earlier this year.

The four new artists are Kristine Campbell, Donovan Corcoran, Gian Galang and James Martin.

Biographical information and photographs of the artists are featured on the Mint website at https://www.usmint.gov/learn/artists.

The program was established in 2003. Through the AIP, the Mint contracts with talented, professional American artists who represent diverse backgrounds and a variety of artistic interests. The AIP was specifically designed to enrich and invigorate the nation’s coin and medal designs through the development of a pool of outstanding artists ready to create new coin and medal designs, but more important, to consider coin and medal design in new ways. The program meets that goal by developing a pool of talented external artists who are prepared to work closely with the Mint’s staff, including the United States Mint Chief Engraver and Medallic Artists, to create and submit new designs for selected coin and medal programs throughout the year.

Artists who join the AIP work under a delivery order contract from their own studios, providing candidate designs in the form of finished drawings. Under current AIP provisions, artists are paid $3,000 per assignment. In addition, artists receive a $5,000 bonus for every design selected for use on a coin or medal.