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"These are the type of artists I anticipate working with in the future, and I believe I'm now one step closer to fulfilling my goal of having a professional career doing something I love."
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Alumni Astral Award Past Winners
DANCE
Joe Webb, New York, NY, Dance, 1996
The award would help defray the costs of marketing and advertising his new show "Taps and Words Meet Coltrane and Bird."
Collette Williams, New Orleans, LA, Dance, 1996
She plans to expose the youth of the city to dance and the arts. She will use the money to create a production showing children how contemporary dance can be incorporated into beautiful music and how they can express themselves through dance.
MUSIC
Brandon Lee, 2001 NFAA YoungArts Winner in Jazz
Brandon used the $2500 award to record his first CD upon entering his second year in the Jazz Masters Program in September, 2006.
Riley Brandy, III, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Music, 1996
The award would help pay for the live recording of his CD at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York.
Miles Brown, Ithaca, NY, Music, 1996
The award would off set the costs of a small tour to promote his band, Beyondo,'s new CD.
Christina Castelli, Western Springs, IL, Music, 1996
She plans to create a program in which YoungArts awardees and other area artists would display and talk about their talent to adults in New York City hospitals. This would give pediatric patients a chance to experience an art form, such as painting or sculpting.
Sara Caswell, Bloomington, IN, Music, 1996
The award would help defray the costs in hiring a professional jazz arranger to write arrangements for full symphony orchestra and solo jazz violin. She has already commissioned five works of this genre and performed them with three different orchestras.
Chad Curlow, Carmel, IN, Music, 1996
The award would help defray costs for materials needed to complete a documentary on George Garzone, an accomplished saxaphonist and the recording of a promo CD used on a website.
Ana Elashvili, Baltimore, MD, Music, 1995
She is the founder and director of the Fountain Chamber Music Society (FCMS) which is dedicated to presenting chamber music concerts in New York City. The award would go towards the expenses of publicity, promotion and management.
Inna Faliks, Skokie, IL, Music, 1996
She would use the award to help accommodate the cost of recording a promotional CD.
Julien Hintz, El Cajon, CA, Music, 1995
This project is designed to utilize the software program Big Eye. A video camera focused around the bellows of an accordion would be fed into a computer and used by Big Eye to control and manipulate sound files and or MIDI signals in real time. The award would be used to buy this software.
Hsing-Ay Hsu, New Haven, CT, Music, 1995
She requests the award to duplicate solo piano CD's and design press kits for mailings to concert producers.
Nathan Peck, Weirton, WV, Music, 1995
The award would help defray the recording and promotional costs of producing his own CD.
Guilanine Senecal, Burlington, VT, Music, 1995
The funding from this award would offset the cost of producing the necessary promotional recordings to join an operatic apprentice program in the United States or abroad.
Laurel Sharp, Johnstown, OH, Music, 1995
This award would offset the costs of purchasing the tools needed to create a reed for the Bassoon.
John Sullivan, Long Island City, NY, Music, 1995
The award is to cover the production expenses and studio time for a recording project involving George Garzone, Saxophonist, and David Sullivan.The award would help defray the costs of recording original compositions.
Ben Vinci, Philadelphia, PA, Music, 1995
He is currently recording a CD of original and new arrangements of pre-existing materials with his swing band, Big Swing Face. The award would help defray production costs.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Randolph Albright, Reisterstown, MD, Photography, 1996
He has organized over 15 group surveys of his art across the country called Superfantastic. It has exhibited the work of over 200 artists including past ARTS awardees, Corrine Botz, Naomi Fisher, Hernan Bas, Chris Francis, Issac Outley, and Erik Tyberg.
He is planning on orchestrating a
spring tour of European cities. The
Award would offset site production costs, server fees, and publicity materials for the spring tour.
Timothy Nazzaro, Randolph, NJ, Photography, 1996
The award would go towards the purchasing of camera equipment and portfolios for fashion photography.
THEATER
Jack Walker-Pearson, New York, NY, Theatre 2002
Used his award to help cover the cost of working on a seventh play for the Convergent Theatre Company (CTC), which he and a few friends founded in 2005: Never the Sinner by John Logan.
Andrew Hovelson, 2001 NFAA YoungArts Winner in Theater
Andrew used the $2500 award to offset the cost of an equity stage manager, an equity actor, the equity stage fee, and a non-equity actor for TCTC's production of Neil Labute's
The Shape of Things.
Matthew Bomer, Spring, TX, Theater, 1996
Help defray festival and production costs for Victor Quinaz's film, "The Tragedy of Listening".
Thea Connors, New York, NY, Theater, 1996
She has been contracted to produce and direct "Alice in Wonderland....A Nice Madness" at the Saint Marks Theatre in New York. This award would help defray the costs of obtaining the dramatic rights.
Neal Dodson, York, PA, Theater, 1996
Help defray festival and production costs for Victor Quinaz's film, "The Tragedy of Listening".
Mary Heider, Columbia, SC, Theater, 1996
She plans to study, document, and recreate the performance styles and techniques of small theatrical family circuses using a group of elementary school-aged children. The award would off set the costs of promotional material needed for this performance.
Mark Henkin, Tallahassee, FL, Theater, 1996
Help defray costs in developing an interactive electronic device that tracks pressure from facial expressions while speaking or singing. The device will create a musical response to a performers gestures and sounds.
Becca McCoy, Nappanee, IN, Theater, 1996
The award would offset the costs incurred during the production of a new play that adapts a piece of literature into a full scale production.
Victor Quinaz, Miami Shores, FL, Theater, 1996
Help defray festival and production costs of his film, "The Tragedy of Listening", in which include three past ARTS Awardees. The film, shot on the latest Digital technology, is 75 minutes long and took over a year to shoot.
Jack Walker-Pearson, San Antonio, TX, Theater, 2002
Jack and The Convergent Theatre Company are producing a play by David Marshall Grant entitled "Snakebit". The Alumni Award will help cover the cost of the plays royalties, publicity and the theater space to house the show. There are also 3 other ARTS Alumna's in the cast and more assisting with other aspects of the production.
VISUAL ARTS
Rachel Kerwin, Brooklyn, NY Visual Arts 2002
Used her award to help off-set the cost of materials for a series of paintings exploring the role religion and outside assumptions play in the lives of Muslim women.
Marianna Ellenberg, New York, NY, Visual Arts, 1995
The award would assist in post production costs of her film, Peach Project Excess, a 16 mm film and digital video, which will be completed in December 2000 and submitted to the New York Festival in March 2001.
Jeremiah Hahn, Markham, IL, Visual Arts, 1996
He is requesting this award to off set the costs of transferring 4000' feet of black and white 16mm, animated footage to video for editing his first clay-animated feature film project, "The Tangerine Club."
Jennifer Harris, Los Angeles, CA, Visual Arts, 1995
Artplace in Los Angeles offered her a one person show in February 2001. The award would help defray the costs of materials and supplies.
Morgan Miller, New City, NY, Visual Arts, 1996
The American Working Man is a series of three 16mm B&W short films. The first, "Union Man", is completed and he is working on the second film, "Budget Liquor". The award would help defray the costs in completing the second film.
Erica Pelton, Albany, NY, Visual Arts, 1995
She is pursuing a career as a Children's Book Illustrator. The award would help defray the costs of preparing a portfolio and distributing it to publishing houses across the country.
Nathan Purath, West Lafayette, IN, Visual Arts, 1995
He would use this stipend to defray the costs of continuing construction on his most recent series of light boxes. The works will be displayed at his BFA Thesis exhibition in December at Indiana State University and at a solo show at the Woldron Art Center in Bloomington, Indiana.
Gautam Rao, Bethesda, MD, Visual Arts, 1995
He requests the award to establish a print making shop where he can create intaglio prints.
Ellen Shattuck, Jamaica Plain, MA, Visual Arts, 1995
Last year, she completed a series of 12 light boxes based on a collection of myths about women from all over the world. The Award would help defray costs to produce the light boxes.
WRITING
Marco A. Ramirez, Miami, FL, Play or Script Writing, 2001
Marco has been invited to produce his full-length play, A Place Without Seasons, at the Eighth Annual New York International Fringe Festival from August 13 - 29, 2004. This award will help him defray costs of the production. More information is available at his website www.ZafraProductions.com.
Mary Atwell, Radford, VA, Writing, 1996
The award would help defray the costs of preparing her novel in progress, "Rise Up Singing", for publication.
Tara Bayton, Philadelphia, PA, Writing, 1995
The award would help defray the costs of photocopying and sending out the requested manuscript to agents and publishers.
Christine Leahy, Williamstown, MA, Writing, 1995
She plans to execute a public art project in the New York subway system. The award would off set the costs to print materials and flyers to distribute her work in the subway.
Lara Robinson (formerly Bielamowicz), Navasota, TX, Writing, 1995
The award would help defray the costs associated with publishing her poems and fiction in literary journals.
Deborah Stein, New York, NY, Writing, 1995
The award would help defray the costs of developing an original theatre piece on the topic of photography and memory to be performed in New York in the winter 2001.
Michelle Tupko, Hamden, CT, Writing, 1996
Requests award to help defray the costs of publishing her novel. She is incorporating writing and photography to create a multi-media book
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