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Friday, December 16, 2011
Arts Mecklenburg arts council announces 2012 regional grant recipients
Posted By Anita Overcash on Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:18 PM
The Mecklenburg County Arts & Science Council announced today the recipients of $50,000 in funding for regional art projects.
The Regional Artist Project Grants — which the ASC doles out in conjunction with arts councils in Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan, Rutherford and York counties, as well as the North Carolina Arts Council and Blumenthal Endowment — will go to 31 of 106 area applicants. The alliance distributes the funds to artists pursuing specified projects that will help them better their craft.
Now — *insert drumroll here* — on to the chosen ones:
Gretchen Alterowitz - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To fund the rental of professional recording equipment to record the artist’s choreography, to be broadcast on cable TV and released internationally on DVD by in 2013Betsy Birkner - $975
Mecklenburg County
To attend a master class by a figurative artist to learn methods of clay drapery techniques and surface finishingGayle Clayton - $2,000
Rutherford County
To attend a digital book conference to network and brainstorm cutting edge technology into the electronic publishing worldTenya Colemon - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To pay for time with Jazz Master, Cyrus Chestnut (Jazz Pianist & Educator)Sharon Dowell - $1,650
Mecklenburg County
To fund a two-week Tyrone Guthrie Center residency fee in IrelandNichole Gause - $400
Mecklenburg County
To pay for a master writing class at the Gotham Writer’s Workshops
Raymond Grubb - $1,304
Mecklenburg County
To purchase supplies to print 12 diptychs from current portrait workValerie Hastie - $500
Mecklenburg County
To purchase digitally printed acrylic materials to create a series of backlit mixed-media photographic imagesDawn Hilton-Williams - $1,395
Mecklenburg County
To pay for a conference registration for the Writer’s Digest Conference in January, 2012Dustin Hofsess - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To record a solo album of original instrumental compositionsJoe Keller - $1,100
Mecklenburg County
To purchase Adobe Production Premium SuiteChad Lawson - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To hire Evolution Promotion, an established PR and artist development companyAllison Luce - $2,000
Iredell County
To purchase a kiln to create larger more sophisticated work increasing the ability to exhibit and sell sculpturesAllison McGowan Hermans - $2,000
Cabarrus County
To construct an outdoor atmospheric gas-fired kiln for the creation of handbuilt porcelain clayworkLea McLaughlin - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To fund the completion of three recordings, necessary for an electronic press kitBeth Melton - $2,000
York County
To cover the fee to attend a two-week textile related class at Penland School of CraftRamona Moore Big Eagle - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To develop a fully functioning interactive websiteNatasha Morris - $35
Mecklenburg County
To apply as a fellow in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, a five-day, hands-on writer’s workshop in January 2012Juan Ossa - $1,800
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a Canon EOS D7 DSLR cameraWilliam Puckett - $1,147
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a wood planing set to salvage native North Carolina timber and create planks for painting canvasesNicole Rademacher - $800
Mecklenburg County
To pay for a two-month Residency at Lake Victoria Special Arts Foundation in KenyaMarek Ranis - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To pay for the printing and face-mounting of a series of manipulated photographic images from artistic residency and research travel in North Western GreenlandNancy Ray - $1,999
York County
To pay to frame photos for a solo exhibit in Feb./March of 2012Stacey Rose - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a new computerPaul Rousso - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase sixteen permanent, thermal adhesive prints, to mount and laminate front and back to eight oversized acrylic sheetsGerwood Shephard - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a boom microphone set and lighting kitLois Stickell - $800
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a desktop computer to finish a young adult bookTerry M. Thirion - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To rent an air conditioned warehouse in South End artist to create next body of workThomas Thoune — $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a digital kiln to expand teaching and commissioned artistic techniquesJoyce L. Wynes - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To employ a professional photographer to photograph and color proof 12 paintingsChristopher Yountz - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a Canon 7D camera to take high definition video
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Image Credit: Sharon Dowell
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