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Greater
Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grantees
| Grantees
from the April 1, 2008 Deadline |
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Thomas
Childs |
$1,500 |
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To
participate in a month-long residency in composition,
studying with internationally renowned composer
Sofia Gubaidulina through the European American
Musical Alliance in Paris. |
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Carolyn
Lambert |
$1,300 |
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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. |
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Tammy
Ryan |
$570 |
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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. |
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Rick
Murrell |
$1,100 |
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To
study with Barry Baugess, a world-renowned parformer/teacher
of the Baroque trumpet at Oberlin Coinservatory's
Baroque Performance Institute. |
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David
Motak |
$1,340 |
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To
apprentice with master artisan Maciej Moszew in
Cracow, Poland. |
| Grantees
from the January 1, 2008 Deadline |
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Carolina
Loyola-Garcia |
$1,000 |
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|
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. |
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Yoko
Sekino-Bovey |
$1,000 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Benjamin
Sota |
$1,500 |
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|
To
participate in an artist residency in Ethiopia,
with the Awassa Children's Project. |
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| Grantees
from the October 1, 2007 Deadline |
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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 |
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|
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. |
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William
Kofmehl |
$1,000 |
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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. |
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Sarah
Koljonen |
$1,000 |
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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 |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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Andre
Pidkivka |
$750 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Dee
Briggs |
$1,000 |
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To
install her first invited solo exhibition
of sculpture at the Regina Miller Gallery
at Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Delanie
Jenkins |
$1,000 |
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To
assist with the framing expenses for an upcoming
exhibition in seven galleries at the Pittsburgh
Center for the Arts. |
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Patrick
Jordan |
$1,000 |
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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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