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SC Arts Commission Grants Awards

 

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The South Carolina Arts Commission Board of Commissioners has approved the Fiscal 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship Award recipients. This year, the Arts Commission is presenting awards totaling $20,000 to four South Carolina artists—in the categories of poetry, prose, playwriting and acting. Fellows each receive $5,000 in recognition of their superior artistic merit.

 

The year's fellows are:

Poetry:	Barbara G.S. Hagerty, Charleston County
Prose:	Ed Madden, Richland County
Playwriting:	Rodney Lee Rogers, Charleston County
Acting:	Sharon Graci, Charleston County

 

The board of the S.C. Arts Commission approves fellowships based on recommendations made by out-of-state review panelists, who select fellows and alternates based solely on their review of anonymous work samples.

 

This year's poetry panelist was Alan Shapiro, an English and creative writing professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The prose panelist was Martha Southgate, an adjunct professor in the M.F.A. Writing Program at Brooklyn College. The playwriting panelist was Tracy Nichols, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Theatre and Dance at Austin Peay State University. Acting panelists were Tennessee State Arts Commission staffers, Hal Partlow, director of performing arts, and Kim Leavitt, director of arts education.

 

Individual artists working in visual arts, craft, music performance and music composition can apply for the FY2012 fellowship awards. The deadline to apply is Oct. 1.

 

NOTE: All grant awards are contingent upon availability of funds, submission and approval of final reports, and compliance with program grant guidelines.