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SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY STIPENDS
RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester announces 21 recipients of Special Opportunity Stipends (S.O.S.) for the Genesee Valley/Finger Lakes Region. Artists will use their stipends to take advantage of career-building opportunities that take place between July 1 and October 31, 1999.
On June 15 at a public meeting in Batavia, NY, the S.O.S. advisory panel determined the recipients for the stipends. Panelists included: Penelope Dannenberg, Director of Artists Programs, New York Foundation for the Arts; Kelly Kiebala, Program Director, Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council, film, video, and photography; Sue Knapp, Arts Council for Wyoming County, visual arts/textiles/ceramics; Betty Garcia Mathewson, Multicultural Coalition of Orleans County, music presenter; John Contino, Wayne County, visual arts/photography; James Willey, Livingston County, music; and Frances Hare, Monroe County, dance and visual arts.
Twenty-one visual, performing and literary artists will receive a total of $5,000 in funding. The Special Opportunity Stipend program is funded by New York State Council on the Arts through the New York Foundation for the Arts. The program is administered by the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester in association with area arts councils.
S.O.S. Recipients for Summer 1999
Roberley Bell, Genesee (County), visual arts, $375
9446 Francis Road
Batavia, NY 14020
716-343-5949
for shipping, lodging and installation materials for an outdoor sculpture exhibit at Its Sculpture, Washington, D.C sited in front of the National Public Radio Building.
Yolanda Daliz/Anita Welych, Monroe, visual arts, $400
339 Sawyer Street
Rochester, NY 14619
716-328-9155
for van rental and installation materials for a collaborative exhibit at El Museo Francisco Oller and Diego in Buffalo, NY.
Annie Dunsky-Kalnitz, Monroe, visual arts, $318
124 South Landing Road
Rochester, NY 14610
716-381-2776
for shipping and lodging for an exhibit at Caelum Gallery, NYC.
Diane Genovese, Wayne, media, $250
4378 Witherden Road
Marion, NY 14505
315-926-6185
for mentor fees and equipment rental to study digital non-linear editing with Rick Bowley.
Syble Green, Monroe, visual arts/illustration, $260
10 Manhatten Square Dr.
Rochester, NY 14607
716-423-0408
for framing for a solo exhibit for Key Bank's Cultural Diversity Program at the Bausch & Lomb Building, Rochester.
Donna Gustina, Monroe, visual arts, $350
43 Woodridge Trail
Henrietta, NY 14467
716-475-6255 716-359-2373
for mentor fees to study photography with mentor Dawn Tower DuBois.
Loree Harpole, Monroe, visual arts, $252
278 Sagamore Drive
Rochester, NY 14617
716-266-5078
for travel to her exhibit at the Broome Street Gallery and Cedar Tavern in NYC.
Michael Harris, Monroe, visual arts, $100
19 Buckingham Street
Rochester, NY 14607
716-244-3821
for framing and matting for a solo exhibit at Mercer Gallery, MCC, Rochester.
Kitty Hubbard, Monroe, visual arts, $200
476 Alexander Street
Rochester, NY 14605
716-442-8676 716-423-0603
for glazing, matting and hardware for a solo exhibit at Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester.
Cinda Kelly, Monroe, visual arts, $195
291 Barrington Street
Rochester, NY 14607
716-271-0979 716-442-6823
for printing and mailing expenses to produce a postcard for an exhibit at the University of Rochester Art Library during the Summer Institute in Art History and Visual Studies.
Sarah Manya, Monroe, dance, $350
104 Shepard Street
Rochester, NY 14620
716-244-9491
for travel to participate in the Dance Web of the 1999 Internationale Sommertazwochen in Vienna, Austria.
Jim Morris, Genesee, visual arts, $375
9446 Francis Road
Batavia, NY 14020
716-343-5946
for local travel during his 1999 Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad in Singapore and Malaysia.
Thomas Rivers, Genesee, visual arts, $200
11 South Lake Street, Apt. #6
Bergen, NY 14416
716-494-1536 716-343-8000
for framing for an exhibit at the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council.
Candice Sanders, Monroe, visual arts, $190
35 Park View Dr.
Pittsford, NY 14534
716-455-2706 716-249-9124
for Iris prints on watercolor paper for a solo show at Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester.
Jeremy Sarachan, Monroe, theater, $250
135 Glen Ellyn Way
Rochester, NY 14618
716-244-8107
for travel and lodging to present his play, The Taking of Simon Red's Glass Door Emporium, at the Toronto Fringe Festival, Ontario,Canada.
Patricia Sears, Monroe, visual arts, $136
18 HighManor Drive, #2
Henrietta, NY 14467
716-334-6504 716-473-7720
for materials to maintain her work during the 57th Biennial Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery.
Yelitza Serrano, Monroe, visual arts/painting, $150
Strathmore Circle, Apt. 8-C
Rochester, NY 14609
716-266-7836
for framing and supplies for an exhibit at the IBERO American Action League's new family facility, Rochester.
Thomas Ward, Wayne, literature, $125
1054 Stafford Road
Palmyra, NY 14522
315-597-1155 716-546-3410
for travel and lodging for public poetry readings on the Mid-Atlantic coast at Richard Stockton College, NJ and Salisbury State University, Maryland.
Sarah Webb, Monroe, visual arts, $101
290 Hollywood Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
716-256-2924
for supplies and childcare during her installation, in a delicate condition, at the Harnett Gallery, University of Rochester.
Billi Jo Wolf, Monroe, visual arts, $200
132 South Union Street, Apt. 12
Rochester, NY 14607
716-325-3726
for framing and matting for an exhibit of social documentary photography at Silkwood Book Store, Rochester.
Cynthia Young, Monroe, visual arts, $225
779 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
716-242-9856 716-442-8676
for shipping for a solo photography exhibit at the SPEOS Paris Photographic Institute, France.
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