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Greater
Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grantees
| Grantees
from the January 1, 2008 deadline |
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Carolina
Loyola-Garcia |
$1,000 |
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In
support of an invitation to do an artist residency
with Grupo Forja, a contemporary art center
in Valencia, Spain. The opportunity includes
developing an art project, giving an artist
lecture, doing a workshop with the MFA students
at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, and
having an exhibition at the gallery. |
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Yoko
Sekino-Bovey |
$1,000 |
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To
accept an invitation from the Women's Studio
Workshop in Rosedale, NY, to attend a four-week
spring residency in order to create a new
body of functional, ceramic work. |
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Shaun
Slifer |
$786 |
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To
attend one week of intensive study in bronze
casting techniques with mentor Greg Pond at
Sewanee University of the South in mid-February,
2008. |
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Benjamin
Sota |
$1,500 |
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To
participate in an artist residency in Ethiopia,
with the Awassa Children's Project. |
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| Grantees
from the October 1, 2007 deadline |
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Andrew
Kelemen |
$685 |
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In
create a short film under the mentorship of
professional filmmaker Mike Hough, incorporating
camera and lighting techniques that are most
effectively learned "in the field"
using high-end equipment. |
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Cara
Erskine |
$1,000 |
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To
frame and document a new body of works for
her first solo show, which is also the inaugural
exhibition for the Tunnel Gallery, located
in Penn Avenue's Arts District. |
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William
Kofmehl |
$1,000 |
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To
transport cast bronze sculptures and pre-fashioned
set designs for a solo exhibition at the Lombard-Fried
Gallery, NY, including documentation of the
opening night performance. |
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Sarah
Koljonen |
$1,000 |
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To
participate in a 4-week residency at the Vermont
Studio Center, surrounded by established and
emerging artists and poets, as a way to refine
and refocus her artistic explorations. |
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Enrique
Castro Perez Gil |
$1,368 |
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To
study with master percussionist Tim Adams,
to develop an innovative, contemporary repertoire
that combines percussion instruments with
electronic and other media, and to learn new
percussion techniques that marry diverse musical
influences and backgrounds. |
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| Grantees
from the July 1, 2007 deadline |
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Edward
Panar |
$750 |
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To
fund travel and materials costs in order to
participate in public presentations of his
work in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles
coinciding with the release of his first monograph
published by the New York based non-profit
publisher, J&L Books. |
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Andre
Pidkivka |
$750 |
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To
perform as an invited lecturer a demonstration
of folk flutes from Eastern Europe and to
premier a new composition for Guitar and Ethnic
Folk Flutes from Ukraine by Oleg Galanin at
the National Flute Festival in Albuquerque,
New Mexico from August 9-12, 2007. |
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Bill
Shannon |
$750 |
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To
screen his film and video work at the IFC
Center in New York City and to premiere his
new site-specific performance piece, "Window,"
at Sitelines 07 in New York City in September
2007. |
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Dee
Briggs |
$1,000 |
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To
install her first invited solo exhibition
of sculpture at the Regina Miller Gallery
at Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Delanie
Jenkins |
$1,000 |
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To
assist with the framing expenses for an upcoming
exhibition in seven galleries at the Pittsburgh
Center for the Arts. |
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Patrick
Jordan |
$1,000 |
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To
help defray the costs of living, attending
shows and workshops at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland in August 2007. |
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| Grantees
from the January 1, 2007 deadline |
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Bovy
Lee |
$1,200 |
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For
a two-person exhibition at the Asian American
Arts Centre in New York, in the Mid-career
Exhibition, which recognizes the accomplishment
of artists who have been working in the field
for 15 to 20 years. |
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Patricia
Maurides |
$1,200 |
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To
participate in an artist residency at the
Coumantaros Art Gallery in the Sparta Branch
of the National Gallery of Greece, in preparation
for subsequent exhibitions-in a museum, a
village cultural center and an art gallery-in
the Laconia region of southern Greece. |
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Mary
Mazziotti |
$1,200 |
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To
attend a month-long arts residency in late
winter at Newington Armory, a heritage-listed
site within the facility built for the 2000
Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. |
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Lissa
Brennan |
$670 |
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To
participate in an intensive, two-week stage
combat workshop. "I gravitate towards
plays about people in volatile situations,
struggling to find hope…which invariably
contain scenes of violence for which combat
skills are necessary," she writes. |
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Andrew
Johnson |
$670 |
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To
take his multidisciplinary project PED RIO
to FILE-RIO 2007, an electronic language festival
this spring in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at
the Telemar Cyuoltural Center, an arts and
technology oriented institution. He will also
talk about his creative process in an accompanying
symposium.. |
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Carin
Mincemoyer
|
$670 |
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To
support a three-month residency at the Bemis
Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.
One of only twelve artists selected from 271
applicants from around the world, she will
have access to private workspace as well as
large fabrication and installation spaces,
and access to other facilities and equipment. |
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Cathleen
Richardson-Bailey |
$670 |
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To
attend "What I Have Done With Where I
Have Been," a Retreat for Committed Women
Writers presented by A Room of Her Own Foundation
at Ghost Ranch in Albuquerque New Mexico in
June. |
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Barbara
Weissberger |
$670 |
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For
a solo exhibition at Pittsburgh Center for
the Arts this spring, to include a large-scale
installation of small photographic, adhesive-based
elements applied directly to the wall, and
framed works on paper. This represents the
premiere of a new body of works for the artist. |
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Grantees
from the October 1, 2006 deadline |
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Paula
Martinac |
$400 |
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To
stage a reading of her full-length play, Their Town,
in preparation for possible production. |
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Deborah
Bogen |
$500 |
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To
read from her new book, Landscape With Silos, at
the New Mexico Chapter of PEN. |
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Patricia
Villalobos-Echeverria |
$800 |
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To
participate in an exhibition entitled Between Walls
/ Entre Muros at two venues: Guanajuato, Mexico
and Dallas, Texas. |
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Akiko
Kotani |
$1,000 |
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For
the opportunity to exhibit the drawings on paper
developed as a resident at Tyrone Guthrie Centre
in Newbliss, Ireland, in a solo exhibition at the
Maui Arts Center, Kahului, Maui, Hawaii in May 2007. |
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Aron
Zelkowicz |
$1,000 |
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To
produce and record his first solo CD, devoted to
the music of Israeli Composer Joachim Stutschewsky,
as a complement to both his solo career and the
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival. |
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| Grantees
from the July 1, 2006 deadline |
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Teena
Custer |
$1,200 |
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I
am seeking funds for travel to perform my choreography
at "The Surgery," a professional showcase
of hip hop dance theatre works in London, England. |
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Takehito
Etani |
$1,200 |
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My
"Pimp My Heart" project is invited to
the internationally renowned 13th edition of the
ISEA (The Inter Society for Electronic Arts) symposium
and Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art
on the Edge, and will be exhibited at San Jose Convention
Center, August 7-13, 2006. |
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Carolina
Loyola-Garcia |
$940 |
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My
work has been selected to be screened at the University
of Film and Video Association annual conference.
Following the screening there will be a panel discussion
where I am expected to participate. In addition,
one of the videos I submitted for consideration
is finalist for a jury award, which will be presented
during the conference. |
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Edward
Powell |
$500 |
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Seeking
funding to assist in support of an Artist in Residence
at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore for three
weeks in September 2006 for completing a body of
work in painting the landscape of the Dunes. |
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Amy
Williams |
$500 |
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I
am applying for travel expenses to Uruguay and Argentina
for the South American premiers of my composition,
"Abstracted Art". |
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| Grantees
from the April 1, 2006 deadline |
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Ashley
Brickman |
$1,000 |
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To
study abroad in Belgrade, Serbia, through a two-week
program that provides lectures and workshops with
an arts/cultural focus, and which will result in
an opportunity to show in an international exhibition
of works. |
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Susan
Englert |
$500 |
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To
produce the artist's first large-scale, interactive,
multi-media art installation as part of Artists
Upstairs' curated show "Jabberwocky vs. Dada." |
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Karen
Howell |
$750 |
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To
attend the Frank Giorgini workshop entitled "Making
Tiles with the Master" offered by Sugar Maples
Arts Center for Arts and Education in Hunter, NY,
from June 22-26, 2006. |
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Yvonne
Hudson |
$500 |
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To
support attendance and possible presentation at
the International Museum Theatre Alliance's 2006
Northeast Meeting, Harrisburg, PA, August 12-13,
"Doing More with Less: Museum Theatre on a
Shoestring." |
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Rise
Nagin |
$750 |
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For
materials required to make a site-specific installation
and for photographic documentation of this and other
works created for an exhibition at the Three Rivers
Arts Festival Gallery that will reintroduce my work
to Pittsburgh audiences after a hiatus of almost
ten years. |
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Renee
Piechocki |
$1,000 |
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To
pay for travel and registration fees to give a presentation
about the artwork "Trappings" at a conference
in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 2006. |
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Karen
Rigby |
$500 |
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To
attend a three-week writing residency at the Vermont
Studio Center, where she received a full fellowship
in poetry. |
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Jeremy
Sment |
$1,000 |
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To
attend the European American Musical Alliance at
l'Ecole Normale du Musique in Paris. |
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| Grantees
from the January 1, 2006 deadline |
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Brian
Goff |
$1,500 |
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To
support a new works residency in Alberta, Canada,
to create images for exhibition in the 2006 Three
Rivers Arts Festival and publication in a children's
book. |
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Adam
Grossi |
$1,500 |
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For
a month-long residency program at the Vermont Studio
Center, during which he will create new artwork
for his first major exhibition outside Pittsburgh. |
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Vijay
Palaparty |
$500 |
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To
support a performance of Indian classical dance,
Rasa, in Northern New Hampshire under the auspices
of the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire. |
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Benjamin
Sota |
$1,500 |
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To
participate in an artist residency in Kabul, Afghanistan,
with the Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for Children. |
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