RECIPIENT                                                DISCIPLINE                                AWARD



        Rebecca Cummins, Seattle                    Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary        Fellowship

        Antonia Price, Seattle                            Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary        Fellowship

        Pam Kuntz, Bellingham                          Performing                                            Fellowship

        Jan Hopkins, Everett                             Traditional/Folk                                     Fellowship

        Humaira Abid, Renton                            Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Jesse England, Seattle                          Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Tom Gormally, Seattle                           Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Gail Grinnell, Seattle                              Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Todd Jannausch, Seattle                       Visual                                                   Fellowship

        George Rodriguez, Seattle                     Visual                                                   Fellowship

        June Sekiguchi, Seattle                         Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Phoebe Toland, Vaughn                                    Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Grace Weston, Seattle                           Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Ellen Ziegler, Seattle                              Visual                                                   Fellowship

        Michelle de la Vega, Seattle                   Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary        Millay Residency

        Nicole Pietrantoni, Walla Walla               Visual                                                   Millay Residency

                    Abby Aresty, Iowa                                 Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary

[cid:image001.png@01D09DEF.D5F45AD0] For Immediate Release June 3, 2015 Contact: Amber Cortes, Communications Manager amber@artisttrust.org<mailto:amber@artisttrust.org>; 206/467-8734x14; toll-free 1/866-218-7878x14 ARTIST TRUST ANNOUNCES ITS 2015 FELLOWSHIP AND RESIDENCY RECIPIENTS! Artist Trust is pleased to announce the 2015 Fellowship recipients and The Millay Colony of the Arts residencies! The following artists were selected for their artistic achievement, dedication to an artistic discipline, and potential for further professional development. 14 artists working in visual arts, emerging fields/cross-disciplinary, performing and traditional/folk arts will each receive $7,500 of unrestricted funds. In addition, Artist Trust has partnered with The Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York to award one applicant each in the emerging/cross-disciplinary and visual arts with a one-month residency and a $1,000 stipend. RECIPIENT DISCIPLINE AWARD Rebecca Cummins, Seattle Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Antonia Price, Seattle Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Pam Kuntz, Bellingham Performing Fellowship Jan Hopkins, Everett Traditional/Folk Fellowship Humaira Abid, Renton Visual Fellowship Jesse England, Seattle Visual Fellowship Tom Gormally, Seattle Visual Fellowship Gail Grinnell, Seattle Visual Fellowship Todd Jannausch, Seattle Visual Fellowship George Rodriguez, Seattle Visual Fellowship June Sekiguchi, Seattle Visual Fellowship Phoebe Toland, Vaughn Visual Fellowship Grace Weston, Seattle Visual Fellowship Ellen Ziegler, Seattle Visual Fellowship Michelle de la Vega, Seattle Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary Millay Residency Nicole Pietrantoni, Walla Walla Visual Millay Residency For more information about the recipients, visit the Artist Trust website at: http://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/current#fellowship<http://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/current%23fellowship>. In addition, artists will be participating in a Meet the Artist event held outside their place of residency, yet within Washington State. The purpose of the Meet the Artist events is to reach out to underserved populations that are not aware of the artist and/or have little access to art. Most importantly, Artist Trust is grateful to the following panelists who had the difficult task of reviewing 367 applications and narrowing it down to this year's recipients: PANELIST DISCIPLINE Abby Aresty, Iowa Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary Rajaa Gharbi, Seattle Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary Bridget Irish, Olympia Emerging Fields/Cross-Disciplinary David Fischer, Tacoma Performing Cyrus Khambatta, Seattle Performing Deems Tsutakawa, Seattle Performing Marvin Oliver, Seattle Traditional/Folk Latha Sambamurti, Redmond Traditional/Folk Deva Yamashiro, Vancouver Traditional/Folk Christina de Roos, Michigan Visual Esther Ervin, Seattle Visual Keiko Hara, Walla Walla Visual This year's Fellowships are made possible, in part, through generous gifts from: Eve and Chap Alvord, Nancy Alvord, Shari and John Behnke, Michael and Cathy Casteel, Stephanie Ellis-Smith and Douglas Smith, Robert E. Frey, Katharyn Alvord Gerlich, The Klorfine Foundation, Alida and Christopher Latham, Leonard Lewicki, Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, Catherine Eaton Skinner and David Skinner, and Merrill Wagner and Bob Ryman. We greatly appreciate our Fellowship program funding partners: Amazon.com, Inc. and ArtsWA. Other major supporters of Artist Trust include: 4Culture, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, MJ Murdock Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Raynier Institute and Foundation, The Seattle Foundation and Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Artist Trust Artist Trust has invested over $10 million to Washington State artists since its founding in 1986, through grant programs and direct support. Artist Trust also provides a comprehensive suite of career training, professional development resources and counseling to help artists achieve their career goals. 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. The Millay Colony for the Arts The Millay Colony for the Arts is an artists' residency program on the former property of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay located in Austerliz, New York. Founded in 1973, the Colony's mission is to nurture and promote the vitality of the arts by providing writers, visual artist, and composers with a rural retreat that encourages creative intensity and exploration in the context of a nurturing and artistic community. :: :: :: You are receiving this because of your interest in the arts. To unsubscribe, please reply with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line.