(Previously known as Professional Development Grants)

2020

CRAFTS

• Ann Marie Amico
  To support attendance at week-long mixed media and metals workshop at Penland School of Crafts
• Hsiang-Ting Yen
  To support an advanced stone setting and jewelry wax carving setup.

FILM/MEDIA

• Anderson Boyd
  To support continued development of the NC set feature film “The Lease of Nature”
• Andrew Harrell
  To support post-production and festival distribution of a short film

LITERATURE

• Jennifer Brown
  To support attendance at the Vermont College Postgraduate Writers’ Conference
• Virginia Ewing Hudson
  To support onsite research in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma for a novel

MUSIC

• Shana Tucker
  To support professional development in Cello

VISUAL ARTS

• Diana Bloomfield
  To support a polymer photogravure print making workshop
• Shane Booth
  To support portraits on location with an 1867 camera.
• Lidia Churakova
  To support development of public art.
• Shawn Etheridge
  To support the advancement of the HBCU painting series.
• Scott Hazard
  To support fabrication of a weathered steel structure with printed panels.
• Mike Lento
  To support a surreal photography series on nature and landscapes.
• Janet Link
  To support Winter residency at Penland School of Crafts in the drawing studio.
• Kenneth Proseus
  To support the creation of a limited print run and pop-up.
• Joseph Rafferty
  To support framing for a solo art exhibition.
• Helen Seebold
  To support the purchase of a kiln for mask making and ceramic art.
• Mike Slobot
  To support purchase of a 3D Printer to enhance sculpture.
• Linda Starr
  To support the purchase of materials in the medium of acrylic painting

2019

LITERATURE

• Mari FitzWynn
  To support the completion of an African American historical fiction  novel.
• Suzanne Adair
  To support work as an author at multiple events in North Carolina 1 July 2018–30 June 2019.

MUSIC

• Andrew Crowe
  ​To support the construction of a small Recording-Studio/Music-Room, being built in a repurposed 40-shipping container in Franklinton, NC.
• Matthew O’Connell
  To support the tracking, production, and mixing of a full length album.
• Alice Osborn
  To support the production and completion of a full-length music CD of 12 songs.
• Greg Whitt
  To support updating community drumming instruments with modern synthetic drums that are easy to sanitize and transport.

VISUAL ART

• Ellen Hathaway
  To support partial funding of attending Stephen Aimone’s workshop, “Directed Independent Study of Non-objective composition in Abstract Painting” in Thomaston, ME, by offsetting my costs of workshop, lodging, materials.
• Becky Joye
  ​To support the advancement of illustration skills and character development in my work.
• Sean Kernick
  To support a mural project working with local non-proft promoting the universal power of the embrace.
• Joyce Watkins King
  To support travel and time for art installation in Toronto, Canada for the International Biennial World of Threads Festival, where I have been invited to exhibit an installation work.
• Jennifer Markowitz
  To support the funding  of completing more work in the15 piece textile art series titled “Fleshmap: My Hand Embroidered, Bipolar Geographies”.
• Marsha Rogers
  To support my art of pottery making in using a wider kiln to fire large pieces that will enhance the dish and woven bowl design that has proven to be a success.
• Ann Roth
  To support the purchase of art supplies and studio improvements needed to facilitate a major change of direction in my artwork.
• Pete Sack
  To support purchasing professional stretcher frames to create 6 larger paintings.
• Susie Silver
  To support the creation of larger work, provide storage for work in progress and lighting to extend photographic options for presentation of work.

2018

DANCE

• Michelle Pearson
  To support research, collaboration, and choreographic process of creating a new performance piece and math/dance integrated workshop on Topology and Knot Theory.

LITERARY

• Carrie Knowles
  To support work as a writer/artist at a special exhibition in Brisbane, Australia in November 2017.

MUSIC

• Vivianne Cheng
  To support artistic vision of creating debut album in Austria where the Viennese tradition of classical music is deeply rooted and enable audiences to take home a permanent piece of music.
• Thomas Taylor
  To support a 3-day live CD recording and concert, held in an intimate theater.

VISUAL ART

• Jeff Bell
  Funding for creation of sculpture in two North Carolina locations at the same time.
• Kiki Farish
  To support purchasing R&F oil sticks for painting 10 doormat floorcloths with richer color marks.
• Andie Freeman
  To support painting practice to create a larger body of work; photograph work in more professionally; approach galleries for representation; sell art online.
• Dave Greway
  To support artist growth by updating workshop.
• Lillian Jones
  To support development of a new technique in enameling jewelry by helping purchase a hydraulic press.
• Liz Kelly
  To support purchase of first kiln for growing pottery studio practice.
• Libby O’Daniel
  To support completion of a multi-sensory visual art project that creates a safe space for the Triangle community to get to know local gender bender neighbors.
• Anna Podris
  To support solo show at Gitanarosa Gallery in NY this October.
• Jennifer Stas
  To support the purchase of a new electric kiln for pottery studio.

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