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December 12, 2007, Jackson Free Press
Gwendolyn Magee
Gwendolyn Magee, 64, first started making quilts in 1989 during a six-week quilt making class at a local Jackson quilt store that no longer exists. She only planned to make a quilt for each of her two daughters before they went to college, but by the time she finished their quilts, she was hooked. More
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November 29, 2007, The Cincinnati Post
Ohio Artists Among Winners of $50,000 Grants
Two artists from Ohio are among 53 distinguished national artists to have received hefty $50,000 unrestricted grants from United States Artists to support their work. More
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November 24, 2007, The Miami Hearlad
Local Talent Tapped For Exhibit
Boca Raton actress Pat Bowie is in rehearsals for the soon-to-open production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt at the Caldwell Theatre Company. That's a pretty big deal -- it's the first production in the 33-year-old company's new $10 million home, the Count de Hoernle Theatre. More
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November 22, 2007, Times Union
Congratulations, Part I
Clarinetist-saxophonist-composer Don Byron was among 53 artists to be honored with a United States Artists grant at a ceremony Saturday in Los Angeles. Earlier this year, Byron was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, one of 189 artists, scholars and scientists to be so honored. More
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November 21, 2007, Seattle Times
Seattle Artist Maggie Orth Awarded $50,000 Grant
This is the second year for the United States Artists fellowships, which last week gave away some $2.5 million at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles. More
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November 20, 2007, Alaska Public Radio Network
Alaska Artists Win National Grants
Three Alaska artists flew to Los Angeles last weekend to accept $50-thousand dollar fellowships ... More
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November 20, 2007, Philadelphia Inquirer
Artistic Exposures
United States Artists has honored three Philly-rooted artists... More
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November 19, 2007, La Bloga
November 19, 2007
Helena María Viramontes has been selected to receive a 2007 United States Artists Fellowship grant of $50,000 in the field of Literature. More
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November 19, 2007, San Diego Union Tribune
Artist Gets Grants
MORE VISUAL ART: In the second year of grants from the national organization called United States Artists (USA), 10 visual artists from across the country received a $50,000 grant, and one of them is Marcos Ramirez (ERRE), who divides his time between San Diego and Tijuana. More
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November 17, 2007, Chicago Theater Blog
Steppenwolf’s Tina Landau Wins $50,000 Fellowship
Congratulations are in order... More
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November 16, 2007, Clarion Ledger.com
Textile Artist Magee Named a USA Fellow, Awarded $50,000 Grant
Dream trip to Africa can now be fulfilled, 64-year-old says. More
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November 16, 2007, The Columbus Dispatch
Art Awards Two OSU Professors Receive $50,000 Each
Two Columbus artists -- Ann Hamilton and Henri Cole -- are among 50 in the nation awarded $50,000 each from United States Artists. More
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November 16, 2007, Pioneer Press
Open Eye Figure Theater Co-Founder Gets $50,000 Award
Michael Sommers, co-founder of Minneapolis' Open Eye Figure Theatre, is one of 50 Americans to receive a $50,000 no-strings-attached award designed to honor creative artists. More
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November 16, 2007, Rapid City Journal
Local Filmmaker Wins Artistic Grant
Rapid City filmmaker Chris Eyre has been awarded a $50,000 USA Fellowship grant for artistic excellence from United States Artists. More
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November 16, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle
7 Bay Area Artists Among 50 USA Fellows for 2007
Seven Bay Area artists have been awarded grants of $50,000 by the nonprofit organization United States Artists. More
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November 16, 2007, Walker Art Center Blog
A Salute to Sommers
Sincere congratulations to puppetmaker and artist Michael Sommers who was named this week as a 2007 United States Artists Fellow. The $50,000 no-strings-attached gift recognizes 50 artists who’ve achieved “master status.” More
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November 15, 2007, McLeod Residence
Maggie Orth Wins USA Fellowship
Today, United States Artists announced 50 new USA Fellows and we are extremely happy that McLeod Residence artist Maggie Orth is among the artists who will receive an unrestricted $50,000 grant in recognition of their work. More
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August 19, 2007, Anchorage Daily News
Moving Moments
Choreographers interpret their Alaska experiences in the dance studio. More
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December 21, 2006, Helena Independent Record
Helena Ceramic Artist Sarah Jaeger Receives National Grant to Help Advance Her Career
When Sarah Jaeger received a letter last May saying she had been nominated for a major grant and asking her to complete the process by filling out an application, she was skeptical, but she did it anyway. More
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December 14, 2006, iBershires.com
Art Professor Laylah Ali at Williams College Named Inaugural USA Fellow
Laylah Ali, associate professor of art at Williams College, has been selected one of the first United States Artist Fellows. The award includes a $50,000 unrestricted grant, one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. More
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December 13, 2006, This Week @ Metro
Metro State Adjunct Professor Named United States Artist Fellow
El Centro Su Teatro Executive Artistic Director Anthony J. Garcia--an instructor of Chicano Studies at Metro State--has received the newly established United States Artists (USA) Fellowship award for his unique artistic vision. Selected from more than 300 nominees, Garcia was chosen based on his artistic quality, creativity, innovation and risk-taking. More
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December 12, 2006, The Oregonian
Three Artists win $50,000 Grants
United States Artists awards - Matthew Stadler, Dmae Roberts and Joe Sacco are among 54 winners nationwide. More
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December 10, 2006, Anchorage Daily News
Alaska Artists Win Fellowships From National Organization
$50,000: Awards presented in New York City ceremony. More
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December 7, 2006, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Liz Collins, Rhode Island
USA Target Fellow, Crafts and Traditional Arts Textile and clothing designer Liz Collins (b. 1969, lives in Providence, Rhode Island) uses manually operated knitting machines to create garments that refer to the intricate structure of the human body, playing with the ideas of surface and anatomy and the process of knitting itself. More
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December 7, 2006, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A Brighter Financial Picture for Artists
Three Seattleites are among the first to receive new United States Artists fellowships More
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December 6, 2006, Bangor Daily News
Maine Artists Among First to Win New Fellowships
Wesley McNair, a poet from Mercer, and William PopeL., a visual artist from Lewiston, are two of the first recipients nationwide of USA Fellowships from United States Artists. As a USA fellow, McNair and PopeL. will each receive an unrestricted grant of $50,000 to support their creative work. More
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December 6, 2006, Uwnews.org
UW poet awarded $50,000 United States Artists Fellowship
Heather McHugh, a poet and English professor at the University of Washington, has been awarded $50,000 in the inaugural round of United States Artists Fellowships. More
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December 5, 2006, Tulsa World
Tulsa filmmaker Awarded $50,000 Fellowship
A whirlwind week of dramatic success continued for Tulsa filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, named Monday as one of 54 winners nationwide of a $50,000 United States Artists fellowship. More
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December 5, 2006, Star Tribune
3 Minnesotans Get $50,000 Arts Grants
Three Twin Cities artists received awards of $50,000 each Monday from a new, privately funded national program, United States Artists. The Los Angeles-based organization gives money to artists as "an investment in the nation's creativity." More
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December 5, 2006, The Miami Herald
Local Artist Wins USA Fellowship
Mark Handforth, who lives in Coconut Grove, is one of 54 artists to receive a USA fellowship from United States Artists, a recently organized arts support group based in Los Angeles. The fellowships come with an unrestricted grant of $50,000. More
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December 5, 2006, The Seattle Times
Artists Awarded USA Fellowships
Three Washington artists will receive major cash awards in the inaugural round of United States Artists Fellowships, intended to support living artists in a time of dwindling arts funding. More
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December 5, 2006, Morning Sentinel
Mercer Poet Gets Financial Backing For Art
A poet from Mercer who taught at Colby College and directed the creative-writing program at the University of Maine at Farmington is one of the first artists nationwide to win a $50,000 fellowship designed to support their creative work. More
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December 5, 2006, Los Angeles Times
12 Californians Given USA Fellowships
They're among 50 creative types getting $50,000 each, to use as they please, from the new national program. More
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December 5, 2006, Star Tribune
3 Minnesotans Get $50,000 Arts Grants
Three Twin Cities artists received awards of $50,000 each Monday from a new, privately funded national program, United States Artists. The Los Angeles-based organization gives money to artists as "an investment in the nation's creativity." More
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December 4, 2006, LA Observed
Mariachi gets some respect
Nativadad Cano, the gent on the right, is a legend in his own time. Born in Jalisco, he came to Los Angeles in 1957 as a member of one of the city's two mariachi ensembles. He started his own, Los Camperos, in 1961 and damn if they aren't still going strong. More
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December 4, 2006, Regional Arts & Culture Council (Portland, OR)
Three Oregon Artists Are Among the First of 50 US Artists Awarded the New United States Artists Award of $50,000
Three Oregon Artists are among the first of 50 US artists awarded the new United States Artists Award of $50,000 each: Dmae Roberts (playwright, journalist, and educator), Joe Sacco (graphic novelist), and Matthew Stadler (writer, independent publisher, literary editor). More
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December 4, 2006, The Oregonian
Oregonians Win USA Fellowships
Three Oregonians have been awarded $50,000 fellowships from United States Artists, a new non-profit that will award 50 fellowships to 54 artists this year in the fine arts, dance, literature, theater, music and media. More
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December 1, 2006, Colorado Backstage
El Centro Su Teatro’s Executive Artistic Director Among Inaugural Class of United States Artists Fellows
On December 4, 2006 Anthony J Garcia, Executive Artistic Director of El Centro Su Teatro, was honored as part of the inaugural class of United States Artists fellows for artistic achievement in Theater Arts. In 2005, a small group of people set out to provide significant financial support for America’s finest artists, armed with twenty million dollars from the presidents of the Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential and Rasmuson Foundations, they decided to grant 50 individual artists with $50,000 unrestricted fellowships. More
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December 1, 2006, Krystyn Media (Native American blog)
The United States Artists Has Announced the First Recipients of the $50K USSA Fellowships
The United States Artists has announced the first recipients of the $50K USA Fellowships. They include artists in a broad array of disciplines... More
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September 25, 2006, The Boston Globe
Art For Our Sake
What makes great art possible? Among other things, rent money and groceries. So it's good news that a new foundation, United States Artists, will start making annual awards of $50,000 directly to artists across the country. More
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