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Grantees from the July 1, 2008 Deadline
  Allyson Holtz $950
  To make a short video (5-7 minutes) about her art, using the dramatic relocation of my sculpture, "Star and Sea" (Cor-Ten steel, 25ftx25ftx12ft) to the Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, New London, CT as the focal point of the film.
  Renee Piechocki $950
  To accept an invitation from the Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art to be a part of their international program "Intrude: Art & Life 366" in October 2008.
  Emily Herdeman $950
  To attend the Beijing International Musical Festival, a selective two-week program which provides high-level music training through private lessons, group coachings and ensemble performances.
  Eileen Maxson $950
  To attend De Ateliers, an artist residency located in Amsterdam.
  Mary Tremonte $700
  For travel expenses to two related, consecutive artist residencies to which she has been accepted.
  Emily Pinkerton $750
    To support her transition from a local to regional/national artist, she is requesting funding for the mixing and mastering of original songs that fuse North and South American acoustic styles.
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Grantees from the April 1, 2008 Deadline
  Thomas Childs $1,500
  To participate in a month-long residency in composition, studying with internationally renowned composer Sofia Gubaidulina through the European American Musical Alliance in Paris.
  Carolyn Lambert $1,300
  To attend a residency at the prestigious Banff Center in Algerta, Canada, in preparation for a traveling group exhibition, "Other Options" curated by Chicago-based InCUBATE.
  Tammy Ryan $570
    To attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference July 15-27, 2008, where she will participate in writers workshops, present her work to conference participants and receive a one-on-one script consultation with established veteran writer Romulus Linney.
  Rick Murrell $1,100
    To study with Barry Baugess, a world-renowned parformer/teacher of the Baroque trumpet at Oberlin Coinservatory's Baroque Performance Institute.
  David Motak $1,340
    To apprentice with master artisan Maciej Moszew in Cracow, Poland.

Grantees from the January 1, 2008 Deadline
Carolina Loyola-Garcia $1,000
    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.

Yoko Sekino-Bovey $1,000
    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.

Shaun Slifer $786
    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.
Benjamin Sota $1,500
    To participate in an artist residency in Ethiopia, with the Awassa Children's Project.

Grantees from the October 1, 2007 Deadline
Andrew Kelemen $685
    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.

Cara Erskine $1,000
    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.

William Kofmehl $1,000
    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.
Sarah Koljonen $1,000
    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.
  Enrique Castro Perez Gil $1,368
    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.

Grantees from the July 1, 2007 Deadline
Edward Panar $750
    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.

Andre Pidkivka $750
    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.

Bill Shannon $750
    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.
Dee Briggs $1,000
    To install her first invited solo exhibition of sculpture at the Regina Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.
  Delanie Jenkins $1,000
    To assist with the framing expenses for an upcoming exhibition in seven galleries at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
  Patrick Jordan $1,000
    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 April 1, 2007 Deadline
  Elizabeth Atkinson $1,000
  To travel to Prague, Czech Republic to represent her sound design, which will be exhibited at the Second International Theatre Sound Score and Music Composition Exhibition at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial (PQ).
  Joshua Kelly $650
  To study, perform and otherwise advance his musical career as part of the pestigious fellowship program at the Tanglewood Music Center (The Boston Symphony Orchestra's Academy for Advanced Musical Study), which provides unique, in-depth musical experience for emerging professional musicians of exceptional ability.
  Patrick Jordan $1,000
  To help defray the costs of performing at, traveling to, and attending the Edinburgh Fetival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland in August 2007.
  Jennifer Schaupp $1,000
  To travel to India in November, to participate in an Indian classical dance production and interrelated arts education opportunities with internationally respected choreographers.
  Jonah Winter $1,000
  To cover transportation costs to a month-long fellowship in Lasswade, Scotland at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, a prestigious writer's colony.
  David Stock $1,000
    For a residency at MIAM of Istanbul Technical University in October 2007, along with travel to other parts of Turkey.

Grantees from the January 1, 2007 Deadline
Bovy Lee $1,200
    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.
Patricia Maurides $1,200
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.
Mary Mazziotti $1,200
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.

Lissa Brennan $670
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.

Andrew Johnson $670
    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..
Carin Mincemoyer
$670
    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.
Cathleen Richardson-Bailey $670
    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.
Barbara Weissberger $670
    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.

Grantees from the October 1, 2006 Deadline
Paula Martinac $400
To stage a reading of her full-length play, Their Town, in preparation for possible production.
Deborah Bogen $500
To read from her new book, Landscape With Silos, at the New Mexico Chapter of PEN.
Patricia Villalobos-Echeverria $800
To participate in an exhibition entitled Between Walls / Entre Muros at two venues: Guanajuato, Mexico and Dallas, Texas.

Akiko Kotani $1,000
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.
Aron Zelkowicz $1,000
    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.

Grantees from the July 1, 2006 Deadline
Teena Custer $1,200
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.

Takehito Etani $1,200
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.
Carolina Loyola-Garcia $940
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.

Edward Powell $500
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.

Amy Williams $500
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

Ashley Brickman $1,000
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.
Susan Englert $500
To produce the artist's first large-scale, interactive, multi-media art installation as part of Artists Upstairs' curated show "Jabberwocky vs. Dada."
Karen Howell $750
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.
Yvonne Hudson $500
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."

Rise Nagin $750
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.
Renee Piechocki $1,000
To pay for travel and registration fees to give a presentation about the artwork "Trappings" at a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 2006.
Karen Rigby $500
To attend a three-week writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center, where she received a full fellowship in poetry.
Jeremy Sment $1,000
To attend the European American Musical Alliance at l'Ecole Normale du Musique in Paris.

Grantees from the January 1, 2006 Deadline
Brian Goff $1,500
    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.

Adam Grossi $1,500
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.

Vijay Palaparty $500
To support a performance of Indian classical dance, Rasa, in Northern New Hampshire under the auspices of the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire.

Benjamin Sota $1,500
To participate in an artist residency in Kabul, Afghanistan, with the Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for Children.
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