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May
29,
2008
WYPR radio host Tom Hall is emcee for the event, which will be held at the Brown Center on the Baltimore campus of the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Call 410-767-6555 for tickets, information. The Arts Council selected 97 artists out of 627 applicants – representing nine artistic categories – for the 2008 awards. The named artists receive cash awards in the amount of $6,000, $3,000 or $1,000. Continued... Individual Artist Awards are made in 18 categories that alternate each year. The 2008 categories are: dance (solo performance); fiction, media, music (solo instrumental performance and solo vocal performance); theater (solo performance); visual arts (installation, computer arts and other genre [one category]; and visual arts (painting and works on paper). Artists who apply for the awards must be Maryland residents. Juries of out-of-state peers and experts judge the artists’ work anonymously and assign each artist a ranking. The 2009 categories are: dance (choreography); music composition (classical, non-classical, world music); playwriting; poetry; visual arts (crafts, photography, sculpture). Artists must apply by July 2009 for these awards.
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Clarence
Bishop, deputy secretary for Maryland’s Department of Business
and Economic Development, will be a featured speaker at the Maryland
State Arts Council’s Individual Artists Awards ceremony
and reception, June 14. (Pictured:
Gesel Mason, 2008 award recipient for solo dance)
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