Amy Gross and Denise Moody-Tackley are among 12 artists chosen in the five-county region for the Award
Palm Beach County Cultural Council announces the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Award for Visual and Media Artists winners. Amy Gross and Denise Moody-Tackley are the Palm Beach County artists named to each receive a $7,500 award.
Fellowships were awarded at $15,000 and $7,500 levels. The $15,000 fellowships are the largest such awards provided by local arts agencies in the United States and are scheduled to be approved by the Miami-Dade County Commission in February 2006.
The South Florida Cultural Consortium, an alliance of the local arts agencies in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin and Monroe counties, assists visual and media artists through cash awards based solely on creative excellence. The Consortium’s main purpose is to foster artistic development and encourage career advancement.
The Consortium, formed in 1985, operates under an inter-local government agreement to coordinate projects and share resources for the growth of South Florida cultural activities, organizations and artists. It provides regional cultural planning, new project development, statewide cultural marketing, information sharing, regional arts education training and support for ethnic and rural audience development.
Twelve non-matching fellowships have been awarded by the South Florida Cultural Consortium through its 2006 Visual and Media Artists Fellowship Program. The Consortium awarded the fellowships to five visual artists from Miami-Dade County, four from Broward County, two from Palm Beach County and one from Monroe County.
The 10 recipients outside of Palm Beach County are: John Bailly, Miami-Dade County ($15,000); Tim Curtis, Miami-Dade County ($15,000); Jacin Giordano ($7,500), Miami-Dade County; Julie L. Kahn, Miami-Dade County ($15,000); Chad Tingle, Miami-Dade County ($7,500); Giannina Coppiano Dwin, Broward County ($7,500); Eric Freedman, Broward County ($15,000); Christina Pettersson, Broward County ($15,000); Asser Saint-Val, Broward County ($7,500); and Rock Solomon, Monroe County ($15,000).
The recipients were selected during a two-panel tier process, which included the participation of regional and national arts experts. Selection by the regional panel was totally anonymous, based solely on the quality of the artists' work as evidenced by slides or video/films submitted.
The regional panel included Rina Carvajal, Miami Art Central, Miami-Dade County; Michael Mills, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Broward County; Peggy Levinson Nolan, 2002 Fellowship Recipient, Broward County; Barron Sherer, Chief Programmer, Cinema Vortex, Miami-Dade County; Geoffrey Thomas, 2005 Fellowship Recipient, Broward County; and Kara Walker Tome, Armory Art Center, Palm Beach County.
The regional panel forwarded their recommendations to the national panel, which was comprised of Jim Czarneicki, S/RI Cultural Planners, St. Paul; Lee Kelley, City of Chicago Art in Public Places, Chicago; Michelle Materre; Third World Newsreel; New York City; Paul Roth, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., and Ela Troyano, Filmmaker, New York City. All five national judges participated in the final recommendations.
An exhibition featuring the works of the twelve recipients will be presented at the University Galleries of Florida Atlantic University during the summer of 2006. The South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships for Visual and Media Artists is a cooperative project funded in part with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, the Boards of County Commissioners of Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin and Monroe Counties, and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.
For additional information, please contact:
Larry Boytano
Public Relations Coordinator
Palm Beach County Cultural Council
1555 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 300
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Tel. (561) 471-1601
Fax (561) 687-9484
lboytano@pbccc.org
www.palmbeachculture.com
