Commission on the Arts Provides Grants to 18 Artists
Painting by Suzanne Whitaker.
The highly-competitive grants will help develop artistic work, support the advancement of artistic research and recognize the contributions individual artists make to Arizona communities.
Additional grants were made possible because of the state’s budget’s inclusion of an additional one-time $1.5 million allocation to the Arts Commission’s grant making budget.
The Arts Commission also presented the Bill Desmond Writing Award, which includes $1,000 in funding to nonfiction writers for project-related costs, to Lawrence Lenhart. The award was established by Kathleen Desmond to honor her husband Bill, a reporter, editor and nonfiction writer.
See a full list of grant recipients below:
- Sama Alshaibi
- María Isabel Alvarez
- William Ambrose
- Torran Anderson (Tucson)
- Clarice Bales (Tucson)
- Christine Cassano (Phoenix)
- Melanie Channon (Phoenix)
- Marieke Davis (Gilbert)
- Juliana Desmond (Tucson)
- Charles Hedgcock (Tucson)
- Eric Johnsen (Tucson)
- Lawrence Lenhart (Flagstaff)
- Serge Levy (Tucson)
- Laura Maher (Tucson)
- Laurie McKenna (McNeal)
- Angelina Ramirez (Phoenix)
- Erin Stalcup (Flagstaff)
- Suzanne Whitaker (Phoenix)
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