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Nebraska
Arts Council Press Release
14 Visual Artists Receive
Awards Totaling $20,000 (Omaha, NE) April
26, 2007: The Nebraska Arts Council announces the recipients of the 2007
Individual Artist Fellowship Awards in Visual Arts. Fourteen visual
artists, who work and live in Nebraska, have been granted the IAF Visual Arts
Fellowships. The IAF Fellowship
Awards are awarded in three categories: $5,000 Distinguished Artist
Award; $2,000 Merit Award; and $1,000 Merit Award. The 2007 IAF Visual
Arts recipients include: $5,000
Distinguished Artist Award: Jamie Burmeister,
Sculpture/Installation (Gretna) $2,000 Merit Award: James Bockelman,
Drawing/Painting (Seward) Mary Zicafoose,
Craft--Textiles (Omaha) $1,000 Merit
Award: Santiago Cal,
Sculpture/Installation (Lincoln) Ann Gradwohl,
Sculpture/Installation (Lincoln) Eliska Morsel
Greenspoon, Photography (Omaha) Tim Guthrie,
Sculpture/Installation (Omaha) Aaron Holtz,
Painting/Drawing (Lincoln) Leslie Iwai,
Sculpture/Installation (Omaha) Susan McGilvrey,
Craft--Ceramics (Omaha) Marjorie Mikasen,
Painting/Drawing (Lincoln) Troy Muller,
Painting/Drawing (Omaha) Robert Schwieger,
Printmaking (Lincoln) Bill Shaffer,
Painting/Drawing (Lincoln) The IAF award serves to recognize the exemplary efforts
of these artists in their creative field. Other artistic disciplines
recognized include: literature, filmmaking, and the performing arts. |