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[cid:image001.jpg@01CC160A.1A5369E0] For Immediate Release May 19, 2011 Contact: Miguel Guillén, Program Manager 206/467-8734 x11; 1/866/21-TRUST miguel@artisttrust.org [cid:image002.jpg@01CC160A.1A5369E0][cid:image003.jpg@01CC160A.1A5369E0][cid:image004.jpg@01CC160A.1A5369E0] Artist Trust AWARDS $135,000 TO 18 WASHINGTON STATE ARTISTS We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2011 Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, 2011 Fellowships, and the 2011 Claire Short Ireland Residency. Selected by independent panelists, these 18 awards total $135,000 in support to individual artists. In 1988, two years after its founding, Artist Trust began providing support to artists of Washington State through cash grants. Grants provide artists with a means to continue exploring their creative paths, and in so doing, enrich all of our lives. The wellspring of creativity is full of new ideas and vitality, as demonstrated by this year's recipients. We can expect great things to ripple outward, throughout the state, and beyond, thanks in large part to our funding partners who provided the necessary pipeline of support. --Fidelma McGinn, Executive Director The Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement awards $10,000 to a Washington State female visual artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated 25 or more years of her life to creating art. The award, created in 2001 through a generous gift to the Artist Trust Endowment by Irving and Yvonne Humber, recognizes creative excellence, professional accomplishment and dedication to the visual arts. This year 39 applications were received for this award. It is an honor to recognize Barbara Noah as the 2011 Twining Humber Award recipient. Artist Trust Fellowships recognize Washington State artists of exceptional talent, demonstrated ability, professional achievement and continuing dedication to an artistic discipline. Fellowship recipients receive a cash award of $7,500. This year 409 Fellowship applications from artists working in Emerging & Cross-Disciplinary Arts, Folk & Traditional Arts, Performing Art and Visual Art from around the state were received. The 2011 Recipients are: Emerging & Cross-Disciplinary - Susan Robb, Brent Watanabe, Folk & Traditional - Pete Peterson, Sr., Nadia Tarnawsky, Performing - Hengda Li, Curtis Taylor, Visual - James Allen, Saul Becker, Dan Corson, Tatiana Garmendia, John Grade, Eva Isaksen, Zhi Lin, Jill Mayberg, Anne Drew Potter, Matthew Williams. Created through the generosity of donors Emer Dooley and Rob Short, the Claire Short Ireland Residency provides a one-month stay in West Cork, Ireland plus a $5,000 award to one Fellowship finalist. The 2011 recipient of the award is Seattle painter Marc Bohne. For more information on this year's recipients, visit our website: http://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/current. As a recipient of this award, I feel the work that I have been doing for the past 20 years has been validated. Aside from the award providing financial support, it also offers recognition for the quality of the work I have done. It is a great honor for me. -Nadia Tarnawsky, Folk & Traditional Arts This kind of support is what allows me to pursue the work I understand to be most valuable on a public level and not to be limited to producing commercially viable work. It supports the role of the artist as a public servant, which is what I would like to be, rather than as a producer of luxury goods. -Anne Drew Potter, Visual Art Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to support and encourage individual artists working in all disciplines in order to enrich community life throughout Washington State. Find out more at www.artisttrust.org<http://www.artisttrust.org/>. :: Images (from left): Pete Peterson, Sr., d'Sonoqua, carved red cedar, acrylic paint, buffalo hump fur, 15"x12"x5". 2008, Photo: Fritz Dent. Barbara Noah, Pop, archival pigment print on paper, 19 7/8" x 28 1/4", 2001.Photo courtesy of artist. Jill Mayberg, Dover in the Gold Sea, mixed media acrylic, cut rag paper on canvas, 11" x 14", 2010. Photo courtesy of artist. [cid:image005.jpg@01CC160A.1A5369E0] 2011 ARTIST TRUST Fellowship Recipients Emerging Fields & Cross Disciplinary Arts Susan Robb King County Brent Watanabe King County Folk & Traditional Arts Pete Peterson, Sr. Mason County Nadia Tarnawsky King County Performing Arts Hengda Li King County Curtis Taylor King County Visual Art James Allen King County Saul Becker Pierce County Dan Corson King County Tatiana Garmendia King County Eva Isaksen King County Zhi Lin King County Jill Mayberg Clark County Anne Drew Potter King County Matthew Williams King County 2011 ARTIST TRUST CLAIRE SHORT IRELAND RESIDENCY Recipient Marc Bohne, King County 2011 ARTIST TRUST YVONNE TWINING HUMBER AWARD FOR LIFETIME ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT Recipient Barbara Noah, King County 2011 Selection Panelists Fellowship/Emerging Fields & Cross-Disciplinary Iole Alessandrini King County Wynne Greenwood King County Maggie Orth King County Fellowship/Folk & Traditional Arts Joshua Heim King County Monica Rojas King County Willie Smyth King County Fellowship/Performing Aimée Bruneau King County Tina LaPadula King County Tonya Lockyer King County Fellowship/Visual Squire Broel Walla Walla County Mary Lee Hu King County Tip Toland Pierce County Twining Humber Ryan Hardesty Spokane County David Nechak King County Nancy Worden King County Acknowledgements This year's Fellowships are made possible, in part, through generous gifts from Eve & Chap Alvord, Nancy Alvord, Sally S. Behnke, Shari & John Behnke, Michael & Cathy Casteel, Peter and Betsy Currie, Katharyn Alvord Gerlich, Leonard & Norma Klorfine Foundation, Christopher & Alida Latham, Jennifer McCausland, The Offield Family Foundation, Linda & Jerry Paros, Pedro & Wanda Pelayo, Gladys Rubinstein, The Jon & Mary Shirley Foundation, Emer Dooley & Rob Short, Catherine Eaton Skinner & David Skinner, Merrill Wagner & Bob Ryman, and all contributors to our annual fund. Support for the Meet the Artist program comes from: [cid:image008.gif@01CC160A.1A5369E0] With great appreciation to our Fellowship program funding partners: [cid:image011.gif@01CC160A.1A5369E0]