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Arts & Cultural Council
Announces Special Opportunity Stipends Recipients
Rochester, NY - The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester and New York Foundation for the Arts announce the recipients of Special Opportunity Stipends (S.O.S.) in the Genesee Valley/Finger Lakes Region. The program provides stipends for artists to take advantage of opportunities that will help further their careers.
Sixteen (16) visual, performing, and literary artists will receive a total of $5,000 in funding. The New York State Council on the Arts through the New York Foundation for the Arts funds the S.O.S. program. It is administered by the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester in association with area arts councils.
The S.O.S. advisory panel for these stipends included: Kathryn Ashley Hollinger, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts; Catherine (Kit) Fallon, Finger Lake Arts Grants; Sally Fox; Paul Stuart; Helga Shulz Morgan; Terry Chaka, Kitabu & Culture; Kevin Schoonover, Wayne County Council for the Arts; and Ginna Moseson and Rebecca Rabideau, Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester.
S.O.S. Recipients for Opportunities between November 1999 and February 2000:
Elizabeth Agte
306 Pennsylvania Avenue
Rochester, NY 14609
716-232-8317
$400, Monroe, Crafts, for materials for a solo exhibit of new jewelry work at Gateway & Company, Rochester.
Frank Anders
115 Glenhill Drive
Rochester, NY 14618-3933
716-442-8227
$300, Monroe, Visual Arts, for framing and matting of his art work for a three-person exhibit at the First Unitarian Church, Rochester.
Robert Eidschun
12 Strathallan Park, Apt. #4
Rochester, NY 14607-1514
716-242-9029
$150, Monroe, Music, for travel and lodging to attend the premiere performance of his composition Air de Cour at the Highwire Gallery and Bantam Masai at the Philadelphia Ethical Society, both in Philadelphia, PA.
Colleen Hendrick
111 Terrace Park
Rochester, NY 14619
716-235-9082
$400, Monroe, Dance, for travel and documentation to rehearse and perform a newly choreographed work by Randy James of Randy James/Dance Works.
Mary Ila Houston
5000 Kelly Rd.
Wyoming, NY 14591
716-786-3715
$350, Wyoming, Visual Arts, for framing and matting for a solo exhibition at Gallery 25, Perry, NY.
Shi-ling Hsiang
16 Stonebridge Lane
Pittsford, NY 14534
716-244-9148/248-8262
$400, Monroe, Visual Arts, for study with ceramic artist Rick Hirsch, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Cynthia Iannaccone
9 Sandcastle Drive
Rochester, NY 14622
716-288-0868
$400, Monroe, Visual Arts, for framing and matting for a solo exhibition of watercolors at the Little Gallery, Nazareth College.
LaMar Jackson
204 Rugby Avenue
Rochester, NY 14619
716-328-3222
$400, Monroe, Design Arts, for travel and lodging to the 12th Annual International Designs of the Year Contest, Newark, NJ.
Sharon Locke
183 St. Paul Street, Suite 503
Rochester, NY 14604
716-454-7046/230-4842
$400, Monroe, Interdisciplinary, for van rental and travel for exhibition of a large book work (installation) at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT.
Alan McAllister
1115 E. Main Street, Box 48
Rochester, NY 14609
716-442-8837
$400, Monroe, Music, for travel expenses to study with Flamenco guitarist Jurgen Breustedt in Mexico.
David Schirm
3602 Rose Rd.
Batavia, NY 14020
716-343-4988
$200, Genesee, Visual Arts, for transportation of work to Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, NY and Baldwin Wallace College, OH.
Wendy Smith
475 East Broad St., Apt. #18J
Rochester, NY 14607
716-546-3063
$350, Monroe, Visual Art/Computer Design, for mentor fees and supplies to study multimedia programs with Brian Managan, Digital Sight Werks.
Allen Vogel
1237 East Main Street
Rochester, NY 14609
716-288-5895
$200, Monroe, Visual Arts, for archival mats for a photography exhibition at the William Marten Gallery, Rochester.
Karen Ward
1081 S. Plymouth Avenue
Rochester, NY 14608
716-235-2976
$200, Monroe, Literature/Visual Arts, for travel and lodging for a reading at Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY.
Judith Wesley
1161 Ayrault Rd.
Fairport, NY 14450
716-223-5581
$250, Monroe, Visual Arts, for framing and matting for an exhibit at the St. Mary's Dugan Center, Rochester.
Benjamin Williams
36 St. Paul Street, Suite 501
Rochester, NY 14604
716-454-3898
$200, Monroe, Visual Arts, for framing and matting for an exhibition of animation clips and cartoon strips at the Frederick Douglass Museum, Rochester.
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