The Maine Arts Commission announced recipients for the 2011 Artists’ Fellowship Awards.

This year’s four fellows are Theresa Secord of Waterville in the traditional arts; Ethan Hayes-Chute of Freeport in the visual arts; Elizabeth Kirschner of Kittery Point in the literary arts; and Deborah Wing-Sproul of Cape Elizabeth in the performing and media arts.

Each fellowship carries a $13,000 award, making these fellowships one of the country’s richest awards for an individual artist given by a state arts agency. The fellows will be celebrated with a program at 6 p.m. Oct. 29 at Gracie Theater at Husson University in Bangor.

The awards showcase is free and open to the public.