Illinois Arts Council Announces FY06 Artists Fellowship Award Recipients
Chicago ---The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) is pleased to announce the fiscal year 2006 Artists Fellowship Award recipients. Non-matching fellowships in fixed
amounts of $7,000 are awarded to Illinois artists in recognition of their outstanding work and commitment within the arts. This year 53 Illinois artists (including two collaborations) will receive Fellowships totaling $357,000.
Finalist Awards of $700 were also awarded to 96 Illinois artists for a total of $20,300. The Finalist Award category recognizes and encourages additional applicants who demonstrate considerable talent.
The Artists Fellowship Program offers funding for 12 artistic disciplines on a two-year rotating cycle. This year's Fellowship and Finalist Award recipients were selected from 486 creative artists working in the disciplines of Choreography, Crafts, Ethnic and Folk Arts, Media Arts, New Performance Forms, Prose, and Scriptworks. In fiscal year 2007, awards will be offered in the five other disciplines of Interdisciplinary/Computer Art, Music Composition, Photography, Poetry, and Visual Arts.
The following jurors reviewed this year’s –
- CHOREOGRAPHY: Donna Faye Burchfield, Roanoke, VA; Chung-Fu Chang, Fort Collins, CO; Susan Hadley, Worthington, OH;
- CRAFTS: Beth Ann Gerstein, Boston, MA; Bunny McBride, Iowa City, IA; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Cupertino, CA;
- ETHNIC AND FOLK ARTS: Christina Barr, Elko, NV; Brent Björkman, Columbus, OH; Olivia Cadaval, Washington, DC; William Westerman, Ph.D., Chicago, IL (non-voting, in-state juror);
- NEW PERFORMANCE FORMS: Octavio Campos, Miami Beach, FL; Shelley Hirsch, Brooklyn, NY; Michael Smith, Brooklyn, NY/Austin, TX;
- MEDIA ARTS: Gretjen Clausing, Philadelphia, PA; Guillermo Galindo, Oakland, CA; Herb Smith, Whitesburg, KY;
- PROSE: Diana Abu-Jaber, Miami, FL; Hilary Masters, Pittsburgh, PA; Brent Spencer, Denton, NE;
- SCRIPTWORKS: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Houston, TX; Charles Deemer, Portland, OR; Dennis Safren, North Hollywood, CA.
Following are the Fiscal Year 2006 Artists Fellowship and Finalist Award recipients listed by discipline.
| CHOREOGRAPHY | ||
| Cindy Brandle | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Rachel L. Bunting | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Margi Cole | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Carrie Hanson | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Atalee Judy | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Julia Rhoads | Riverside | $ 7,000 |
| Lauri N. Stallings | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Kelly Ann Vitacca | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Renee Wadleigh | Urbana | $ 700 |
| CRAFTS | ||
| Chris Berti | Urbana | $ 700 |
| Richard Cohen | Evanston | $ 7,000 |
| Frankie Flood | Jewett | $ 7,000 |
| Susan Kavicky | Island Lake | $ 7,000 |
| Yih-Wen Kuo | Sycamore | $ 700 |
| Paulette Myers | Collinsville | $ 700 |
| Rebecca Ringquist | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Jeffrey R. Sarmiento | Lombard | $ 700 |
| Laura Strand | Edwardsville | $ 7,000 |
| Billie Jean Theide | Champaign | $ 7,000 |
| Matthew T. Wilt | Edwardsville | $ 7,000 |
| ETHNIC AND FOLK ARTS | ||
| Tatsu Aoki | Oak Park | $ 700 |
| Issa Boulos | Brookfield | $ 7,000 |
| James P. Conway | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Earl Edlin | Versailles | $ 7,000 |
| Kiu Haghighi | Evanston | $ 700 |
| Jeffrey S. Midkiff | Carpentersville | $ 700 |
| Jose L. Ovalle | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Hema Rajagopalan | Oak Brook | $ 7,000 |
| Wei Yang | Elk Grove Village | $ 7,000 |
| Qing Ye | Downers Grove | $ 7,000 |
| MEDIA ARTS | ||
| Damon Bishop | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Cade Bursell | Carbondale | $ 700 |
| Yasmina Cadiz | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Dan Collison | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Ruth Leitman | Oak Park | $ 7,000 |
| Eric B. Leonardson | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Silvia A. Malagrino | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Angela Mobley | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Adam Novak/Jan Novak (collaboration) | Oak Park | $ 7,000 |
| Katharin Ross | Evanston | $ 700 |
| Paige Sarlin | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Yvonne Welbon | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| NEW PERFORMANCE FORMS | ||
| Adam Brooks/ Mathew Wilson (collaboration) | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Deva Eveland | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Robert Karimi | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Walter King, Jr. | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Julie Laffin | Riverside | $ 7,000 |
| Teena J. McClelland | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Brian Torrey Scott | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Dolores Wilber | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| PROSE | ||
| Heidi Bell | Aurora | $ 7,000 |
| Garnett Kilberg Cohen | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Barbara Croft | Oak Park | $ 7,000 |
| Ricardo Cortez Cruz | Bloomington | $ 700 |
| Mary C. Dalton | Park Ridge | $ 7,000 |
| Susan Dickman | Evanston | $ 700 |
| Amy C. Hassinger | Urbana | $ 700 |
| Robert Hellenga | Galesburg | $ 700 |
| Jennifer Cullerton Johnson | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Tayari Jones | Urbana | $ 7,000 |
| Daniel S. Libman | Oregon | $ 700 |
| Stephen J. Lyons | Monticello | $ 7,000 |
| Carol Manley | Springfield | $ 7,000 |
| Mary Anne Mohanraj | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Michele Morano | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Chad Simpson | Galesburg | $ 7,000 |
| Kathleen Vyn | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Sandra Leah Wisenberg | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| G.K. Wuori | Sycamore | $ 7,000 |
| SCRIPTWORKS | ||
| Elizabeth Billing | Batavia | $ 7,000 |
| Rebecca Bossen | Evanston | $ 7,000 |
| Gloria Bond Clunie | Evanston | $ 7,000 |
| Lisa Dillman | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Michael Ervin | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| Ronald Falzone | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Maureen Gallagher | Homewood | $ 7,000 |
| Kathleen Lombardo | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Ronan Marra | Chicago | $ 700 |
| Douglas Post | Chicago | $ 7,000 |
| John Susman | Northbrook | $ 700 |
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