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Greater
Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grantees
| Grantees
from the April 1, 2007 Deadline |
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Elizabeth
Atkinson |
$1,000 |
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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). |
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Joshua
Kelly |
$650 |
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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. |
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Patrick
Jordan |
$1,000 |
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To
help defray the costs of performing at, traveling
to, and attending the Edinburgh Fetival Fringe in
Edinburgh, Scotland in August 2007. |
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Jennifer
Schaupp |
$1,000 |
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To
travel to India in November, to participate in an
Indian classical dance production and interrelated
arts education opportunities with internationally
respected choreographers. |
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Jonah
Winter |
$1,000 |
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To
cover transportation costs to a month-long fellowship
in Lasswade, Scotland at the Hawthornden International
Retreat for Writers, a prestigious writer's colony. |
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David
Stock |
$1,000 |
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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 |
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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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