ASC Announces Regional Artist Project Grant Recipients
The Arts & Science Council (ASC), in conjunction with arts councils in Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan, Rutherford and York counties and with the support of the North Carolina Arts Council (NCAC) and Blumenthal Endowment, has named the 2012 Regional Artist Project Grant (RAPG) recipients. This year, grants were awarded to 31 artists of varied disciplines.
The RAPG provides funds for individuals and groups of unincorporated artists to pursue projects that further enhance their artistic development by attending a professional development experience or purchasing/renting a piece of equipment.
This year the RAPG was open to artists in all disciplines and provided an all or nothing grant of up to $2,000. In previous years, emerging artists were able to apply for up to $3,000 and established artists for up to $5,000 and eligibility for the grant rotated between disciplines.
This year’s grantees were selected from 106 applicants, who requested a total of $168,431 for $50,000 in available funds.
ASC President Scott Provancher said the revised process for the RAPG was a success in its first year.
“A Regional Artist Project Grant is an excellent opportunity for individual artists to advance their work and experience,” Provancher said. “We were thrilled to have so many applicants and be able to invest in a record number of artists this year.”
The RAPG is funded through contributions by the NCAC, Blumenthal Endowment, partner arts councils and ASC’s Annual Fund Drive.
2012 Regional Artist Project Grant Recipients
Gretchen Alterowitz - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To fund the rental of professional recording equipment to record the artist’s choreography, to be broadcast on cable TV and released internationally on DVD by in 2013
Betsy Birkner - $975
Mecklenburg County
To attend a master class by a figurative artist to learn methods of clay drapery techniques and surface finishing
Gayle Clayton - $2,000
Rutherford County
To attend a digital book conference to network and brainstorm cutting edge technology into the electronic publishing world
Tenya Colemon - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To pay for time with Jazz Master, Cyrus Chestnut (Jazz Pianist & Educator)
Sharon Dowell - $1,650
Mecklenburg County
To fund a two-week Tyrone Guthrie Center residency fee in Ireland
Nichole Gause - $400
Mecklenburg County
To pay for a master writing class at the Gotham Writer's Workshops
Raymond Grubb - $1,304
Mecklenburg County
To purchase supplies to print 12 diptychs from current portrait work
Valerie Hastie - $500
Mecklenburg County
To purchase digitally printed acrylic materials to create a series of backlit mixed-media photographic images
Dawn Hilton-Williams - $1,395
Mecklenburg County
To pay for a conference registration for the Writer's Digest Conference in January, 2012
Dustin Hofsess - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To record a solo album of original instrumental compositions
Joe Keller - $1,100
Mecklenburg County
To purchase Adobe Production Premium Suite
Chad Lawson - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To hire Evolution Promotion, an established PR and artist development company
Allison Luce - $2,000
Iredell County
To purchase a kiln to create larger more sophisticated work increasing the ability to exhibit and sell sculptures
Allison McGowan Hermans - $2,000
Cabarrus County
To construct an outdoor atmospheric gas-fired kiln for the creation of handbuilt porcelain claywork
Lea McLaughlin - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To fund the completion of three recordings, necessary for an electronic press kit
Beth Melton - $2,000
York County
To cover the fee to attend a two-week textile related class at Penland School of Craft
Ramona Moore Big Eagle - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To develop a fully functioning interactive website
Natasha Morris - $35
Mecklenburg County
To apply as a fellow in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, a five-day, hands-on writer's workshop in January 2012
Juan Ossa - $1,800
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a Canon EOS D7 DSLR camera
William Puckett - $1,147
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a wood planing set to salvage native North Carolina timber and create planks for painting canvases
Nicole Rademacher - $800
Mecklenburg County
To pay for a two-month Residency at Lake Victoria Special Arts Foundation in Kenya
Marek Ranis - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To pay for the printing and face-mounting of a series of manipulated photographic images from artistic residency and research travel in North Western Greenland
Nancy Ray - $1,999
York County
To pay to frame photos for a solo exhibit in Feb./March of 2012
Stacey Rose - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a new computer
Paul Rousso - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase sixteen permanent, thermal adhesive prints, to mount and laminate front and back to eight oversized acrylic sheets
Gerwood Shephard - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a boom microphone set and lighting kit
Lois Stickell - $800
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a desktop computer to finish a young adult book
Terry M. Thirion - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To rent an air conditioned warehouse in South End artist to create next body of work
Thomas Thoune – $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a digital kiln to expand teaching and commissioned artistic techniques
Joyce L. Wynes - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To employ a professional photographer to photograph and color proof 12 paintings
Christopher Yountz - $2,000
Mecklenburg County
To purchase a Canon 7D camera to take high definition video
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