SC Arts Commision Grants Awards
Poetry:
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Cornelius Eady is an associate professor in the English department at the University of Notre Dame. He has a master’s degree from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C. Eady has authored six books of poetry, and he has taught poetry at American University, SUNY Stony Brook, City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. With poet Toi Derricote, he is co-founder of Cave Canem, a summer workshop/retreat for African American poets.
Prose:
- A scholar and novelist, Mako Yoshikawa is an assistant professor at Emerson College in Boston, Mass. She has an A.B.D. from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. Her first novel, “One Hundred and One Ways,” was published by Bantam in 1999. A bestseller in the U.S., it has been translated into six languages. Her second novel, “Once Removed,” also published by Bantam, came out in 2003. She has received numerous honors, including fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H.
Music Composition and Music Performance:
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Jason Freeman is an assistant professor in the music department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a doctoral academic degree and master’s degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree in music from Yale University. Notable ensembles, such as the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae and the So Percussion Group, have performed his music. Festivals in locations ranging from New York to Berlin have exhibited his interactive installations and software art.
- Dr. Chris Arrell is director of theory and composition in the music department at Clayton State University in Atlanta. He earned his doctorate in music composition from Cornell University, master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon. Notable ensembles such as the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble and the Cornell Festival Orchestra have performed his work. He has received honors, commissions and awards from universities and organizations, such as the Fromm Foundation of Harvard University, the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music and the Society of Composers.