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Eight Artists Receive $4,196 in Funding
Through Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester
ROCHESTER, NY, June 26, 2006 —The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts, awarded eight artists from throughout the region a total of $4,196 in Strategic Opportunity Stipends for work occurring between July and October of this year that will significantly enhance their careers. A total of nearly $20,000 in requests from 32 artists were received for this highly competitive grant program. Stipends, which ranged from $300 to $600, were awarded to the following artists:
- Elizabeth Arday of Webster, $507 to attend the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, where she will work as a studio assistant;
- Robin Cass of Rochester, $600 to offset the costs of mounting her first solo exhibition in Taiwan, at the Titott Glass Art Museum in Taipei;
- James P. Hansen of Rochester, $600 to present his choreography at the International Dance Festival in New York City;
- Kelly Jacobson of Rochester, $589 to offset the costs of supplies for work she will complete while serving as artist-in-residence at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University;
- Rigel Klingman of Rochester, $497 for a solo exhibition at the Baobab African Cultural Center on Gregory Street of photos taken in Zambia;
- Jim Morris of Batavia, $303 to offset the cost of attending the prestigious Triangle Artists’ Workshop in New York City;
- Kathryn Symonds of Rochester, $600 for travel costs to attend a pottery workshop at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado
- Benjamin Williams of Rochester, $500 for a mentoring opportunity with Rochester artist and teacher P.D. Avallone, who will work with him to compensate for a visual disability as he translates his black-and-white cartoons into three-dimensional, color wood cutouts.
Strategic Opportunity Stipends, available to artists of all disciplines, are awarded three times per year. Artists from the following 10 counties may apply to the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester: Cayuga, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates.
Applications for the next SOS round, for opportunities from November, 2006 through February 2007 are due at the Arts & Cultural Council by 5 p.m. on September 28, 2006. For information or assistance in completing the application, call the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, (585) 473-4000, ext. 210, or visit www.artsrochester.org.
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