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SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES STIPENDS RECIPIENTS
The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester and New York Foundation for the Arts announce the recipients of Special Opportunity Stipends (S.O.S.) in the Genesee Valley/Finger Lakes Region. The program provides stipends for artists to take advantage of opportunities that will help further their careers.
Fourteen (14) visual, performing and literary artists will receive a total of $4,600 in funding. New York State Council on the Arts through the New York Foundation funds the Special Opportunity Stipend program for the Arts. The program is administered by the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester in association with area arts councils.
The S.O.S. advisory panel for these stipends included: Kelly Kiebala, Genesee/Orleans Arts Council; Thomas Warfield, dance & music; Heidi Lux Santelli, Wayne County Council for the Arts, writer/visual arts; Richard St. George, SUNY Brockport, theatre, Paul Stuart, music; Vladimir Abad, visual art/sculpture; Jim Scholes, literature and theater.
Special Opportunity Stipends Recipients- Winter 1999
Kath Anderson and Woody Packard
28 Arlington Street
Rochester, New York 14607
Phone: (716)473-5064
$298, Monroe, literature/visual arts, for framing, matting and printing supplies for an exhibition of their collaborative work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Gallery sponsored by the Saltonstall Foundation through April 1, 1999.
Sarah E. Cole
541 McGrath Road
Attica, New York 14011
Phone: (716343-0055 ext. 6345/(716)591-0305
$260, Wyoming, visual arts, for travel to study with mentor calligrapher John Stevens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Zena Collier
83 Berkeley Street
Rochester, New York 14607
Phone: (716)442-6941
$353, Monroe, literature, for travel for an artist residency at the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia.
Sari Gaby
305 Oxford Street, #1
Rochester, New York 14607
Phone: (716)288-7870/(716)244-4157
$250, Monroe, visual arts, for travel & lodging to attend the Portrait Society of America's The Art of the Portrait Conference, Washington, D.C., from April 30 - May 5, 1999.
Jill Gussow
153 Averill Avenue
Rochester, New York 14620
Phone: (716)232-1802
$500, Monroe, crafts, for travel to study tile making with ceramic artist Elizabeth Olivella in Oaxaca, Mexico during June 1999.
Cheryl Longyear
RD #1 Denman Road
Port Byron, New York 13140
Phone: (315)776-8632
$327, Cayuga, crafts, for travel to attend the 1999 American Quilt Society Show in Paducah, Kentucky from April 20 - 25, 1999.
Barbara Lussier
95 Mill Hollow Crossing
Rochester, New York 14626
Phone: (716)477-3008/(716)225-0193
$484, Monroe, dance, for travel & lodging to attend the world championship in Irish Dancing in Ennis, Ireland from March 27 - April 4, 1999.
Glenn McClure
19 Wadsworth Street
Geneseo, New York 14454
Phone: (716)243-0324/(716)243-1692
$250, Livingston, music, for travel & lodging to accompany the Nazareth College Choir to Mexico City for the international premier of his composition, St. Francis in the Americas, from March 25 - 29, 1999.
Ben Northern
14116 Ridge Road
Albion, New York 14411
Phone: (716)292-4910
$400, Orleans, visual arts, for framing & matting for an exhibition at the Genesee Orleans Council on the Arts during Summer 1999.
Thomas O'Rourke
159 South Fitzhugh Street
Rochester, New York 14608
Phone: (716)546-6101
$400, Monroe, visual arts, for framing & matting for a solo exhibition of his watercolors titled, Blues, Jazz, and Big Bands, at the Weider Hall Gallery.
Marjo Riggs
153 S. Fitzhugh Street
Rochester, New York 14608
Phone: (716)454-5235
$500, Monroe, visual arts, for van rental and loading assistance to ship her work for her first solo show at the Foundry Gallery in Washington, D.C from April 13 - May 11, 1999.
Rebecca Simmons
68 Winbourne Road
Rochester, New York 14611
Phone: (716)271-3361/(716)436-8087
$300, Monroe, visual arts, for supplies & materials for a one- person exhibition at the Harnett Gallery at the University of Rochester from April 19 - May 9, 1999.
Jean K. Stephens
328 Brett Road
Rochester, New York 14609
Phone: (716)288-8629
$475, Monroe, visual arts, for framing, shipping, and travel to participate in the East Coast- West Coast Group Art Exhibition at the Broome Street Gallery and the Cedar Tavern in NYC from June 29 - July 17, 1999.
Rodney Young
21 Gaslight Lane
Rochester, New York 14610
Phone: (716)381-6700/(716)234-1043
$200, Monroe, visual arts, for framing & matting for his first solo exhibition at My Sister's Gallery, Episcopal Church Home through March 30, 1999.
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