United Arts Awards
Over $25,000 to Area Artists
 
 
United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County recently awarded $25,004 to 23 artists through the 2007-2008 Regional Artist Project Grant Program. This program offers competitive grants to individual artists and small groups to help them further their professional and artistic development. Artists must reside in the five county region of Johnston, Franklin, Vance, Warren and Wake Counties to apply for these grants.
 
Projects funded this year include:
 
  • Felicia Cox
    Johnston County
    Grant Award $750
    -Attendance at music conference for Hammer Dulcimer
     
  • Jubal Creech
    Wake County
    Grant Award $300
    -Creation of Web site
     
  • Jerstin Crosby
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1000
    -Purchase of equipment, supplies and travel costs associated with solo exhibition in Oregon
     
  • Linda Dallas
    Wake County
    Grant Award $950
    -Attendance at workshops through the Watercolor Society of NC
     
  • Alice DeLisle
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1500
    -Purchase of new electric kiln
     
  • Todd Gill
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1460
    -Purchase of finishing system for hand crafted furniture
     
  • Steve Godwin
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1500
    -Residency at Vermont Studio Center to work on poems
     
  • Willie Hinton
    Vance County
    Grant Award $600
    -Creation of new work and marketing assistance
     
  • Stephen David Ineson
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1100
    -Fees for recording studio and manufacture of CDs
     
  • Christine E. Keller
    Wake County
    Grant Award $750
    -Studio rental to record CD of jazz music for duet with Tim Smith
     
  • Stacey Kirby
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1500
    -Production of work for Artspace exhibition
     
  • Roxane Lessa
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1500
    -Classes at Quilt Surface Design Symposium
     
 
 
  • Lanette M. Lind
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1114
    -Purchase mailing labels and prepare catelog to promote choral compositions
     
  • Elaine Orr
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1500
    -Attendance at Sewanee Writer’s Conference for fiction writing
     
  • Alison S. Overton
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1270
    -Attendance at Penland School (Photography)
     
  • Elizabeth Russing
    Johnston County
    Grant Award $900
    -Attendance at NYC Pitch and Shop Conference for writing
     
  • Walter Shearin
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1500
    -Purchase of electric kiln for raku system
     
  • Kenny Shore
    Wake County
    Grant Award $750
    -Duplication of CD and cover at for original children’s music
     
  • Karen Stephania Smith
    Wake County
    Grant Award $900
    -Attendance at Green Mountain Writers Conference
     
  • Rozlyn Sorrell
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1000
    -Enrollment in songwriting course and piano lessons
     
  • John Wall
    Wake County
    Grant Award $1360
    -Attendance at conference for portfolio review (photography)
     
  • Joyce Watkins King
    Wake County
    Grant Award $850
    -Attending classes at Penland School of Crafts
     
  • Deborah Younglao
    Wake County
    Grant Award $950
    -Participation at International Silk Panting Festival