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2008 Artist Projects Recipients Under Construction 17 Arizona Artists to Create New Works The Arizona Commission on the Arts awarded Artists Projects grants to 17 Arizona artists: Julie Anand, Jose Benavides, Christopher Colville, James A. Cook, Eliza N. Gregory, Hilary Harp, Jason Hess, Cynthia Hogue, Zachary C. Jones, Susan Lang, Jeff McMahon, Dominic Miller, Patricia Murphy, Chris Pexa, Beverly Seckinger, Susan Southard, and Denise Uyehara. Offered yearly, each Artists Project grant awards up to $5,000 to artists to help them build their careers through artistic projects. The Commission received 134 applications in many artistic disciplines from around the state for the 2008 Artists Projects grants. Artist Projects panelists included Erin Boberg Doughton, Performing Arts Program Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon; Gaspar Enriquez, visual artist and high school teacher from El Paso, Texas; Todd Petersen, fiction writer and Assistant Professor of English at Southern Utah University, Cedar, Utah; and Cynde Randall, artist, artistic director of Bird x Bird, and senior program associate for the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stella Pope Duarte, a board member of the Arizona Commission on the Arts from Phoenix, chaired the panel. The Commission is also pleased to announce that Susan Southard received the 2008 Bill Desmond Writing Award for the best nonfiction submission. This award was established by Kathleen Desmond to honor her husband, Bill Desmond, a reporter, editor, and nonfiction writer. This document is available in alternate formats by contacting the Commission at (602) 771-6501. |
