Eight College of Arts + Architecture faculty and four CoA+A alumni are among the 74 recipients of 2022 Artist Support Grants awarded by the Arts & Science Council in conjunction with the arts councils of Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln and Rowan counties. Artist Support Grants support professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists to enhance their skills and abilities to create work or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring their work to new audiences. The grants are open to artists of all disciplines and provide funding of up to $3,000.
The following CoA+A artists are receiving awards:
E.E. Balcos, associate professor of dance, has received $3,000 to choreograph and present a new professional dance trio based on social concerns for the environment and the natural world.
Jessica Burke, associate professor of art, has received $1,900 to complete and present new work for an upcoming solo exhibition, “Dressed Up Bones,” in the Zoe Golloway Gallery at the Gadsden Arts Center and Museum in Quincy, Florida.
Sequina DuBose, assistant professor of voice, has received $3,000 to support a world premiere recording of vocal music featuring innovative 21st century composers.
Mira Frisch, professor of cello, has received $3,000 to support “String Music by Black Composers,” which will include a public performance, a video recording, and a national conference presentation.
Anna Kenar, lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History, has received $1,200 to purchase professional camera equipment.
Jeremy Marks, assistant professor of trombone, has received $3,000 to record the New Trombone Ensemble Repertoire.
Eric Millard, assistant professor of trumpet, has received $3,000 to support a diversity focused trumpet ensemble commission.
Tamara Williams, assistant professor of dance, has received $3,000 to attend an online choreography training session that will cumulate with face-to-face instruction at Casa de Cultura SoMovimento.
Dance alumna and visiting professor Audrey Baran ’03 has received $3,000 to produce and present “TEN,” a professional dance concert and retrospective of the last decade of her contemporary dance company Baran Dance.
Art alumna Kalin Devone ’15 has received $300 to support the Goodness Campaign, a workshop-based project that focuses on image externally and internally in women.
Music alumna Elizabeth Kowalski ’11 has received $3,000 to purchase a new computer.
Art alumnus Hamilton Ward ‘15 has received $1,100 to support the creation of cyanotype prints made from photographs taken in a digital landscape.