SC Arts Commission Grant Awards

The South Carolina Arts Commission Board of Commissioners has approved the Fiscal 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship Award recipients. This year, the Arts Commission is presenting awards totaling $20,000 to four South Carolina artists—in the categories of visual arts, craft, music performance, and music composition. Fellows each receive $5,000 in recognition of their superior artistic merit.

The year's fellows are:

The S.C. Arts Commission board approves fellowships based on recommendations made by out-of-state review panelists, who select fellows based solely on a review of anonymous work samples. The visual arts and craft panelists were: Rene Barilleaux, chief curator/curator of art after 1945, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Lia Rose Newman, director of programs and exhibitions, Artspace, Inc, Raleigh, N.C.; and Miguel Gomez-Ibanez, president, North Bennet Street School, Boston. Music composition and performance panelists were: Dr. Robert Tanner, music composition and theory, Morehouse College, Atlanta; Dr. Sharon G. Willis, music department chair, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta; Dr. Hyunjung “Rachel” Chung, assistant professor of theory and piano performance, Spelman College, Atlanta.

Individual artists working in prose, poetry, dance performance, and choreography can apply for the FY2013 fellowship awards. The deadline to apply is Nov. 1.

All SCAC grant awards are contingent upon availability of funds, submission and approval of final reports, and compliance with program grant guidelines. Additional grants are awarded throughout the year.

Note to grantees: Notification of your award is provided through posting on this website, which you may consider official confirmation of your award until contract paperwork is issued. Contracts are issued throughout the year, with paperwork for full-year grants (July 1 to June 30) generally mailed in fall of the award year. If you need an award letter before it arrives with your contract paperwork, please contact your coordinator.