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PA Council grant winners for 2007


PA Council on the Arts announced its 2007 grant recipients recently. Here’s the 5-county local listing of who won. All told, sixty-eight artists from 22 counties in Pennsylvania got individual artist grants in these categories: Arts Commentary – Perspectives on the Arts; Crafts; Folk & Traditional Arts – Craft Traditions and Apprenticeships; Literature – Fiction or Creative Non-Fiction; Media Arts – Narrative and Animation; Music – Jazz/Blues/World or Non-Classical Composition; Theatre – New Performance Forms; and Visual Arts – Photography or Sculpture/Installation.

Congratulations, all! You’ll notice many artblog favorites on the list, although sadly you won’t notice artblog on the list. Here’s the PA Council site where you can download the entire list which, for some reason, is only available in download.

BUCKS
Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou $5,000 Arts Commentary – Perspectives on the Arts
Jack Thompson $5,000 Crafts
Matthew Smith $5,000 Folk & Traditional Arts – Craft Traditions
Michael Itkoff $5,000 Visual Arts – Photography

CHESTER
John Diliberto $5,000 Arts Commentary – Perspectives on the Arts
Alexander Long $5,000 Literature – Creative Non-Fiction
Gunnar Mossblad $5,000 Music – Jazz/Blues/World and
Non-Classical Composition

DELAWARE
Nancy Middlebrook $5,000 Crafts
Alison Hicks $5,000 Literature – Fiction

MONTGOMERY
Rebecca Medel $5,000 Crafts
Jon Volkmer $5,000 Literature – Creative Non-Fiction
Jeanne Walker $5,000 Literature – Creative Non-Fiction
Paul Fierlinger $10,000 Media Arts – Narrative and Animation
Marc Adler $5,000 Music – Jazz/Blues/World and
Non-Classical Composition
Leslie Burrs $5,000 Music – Jazz/Blues/World and
Non-Classical Composition
Jennifer Tauber $5,000 Visual Arts – Photography

PHILADELPHIA
Jason Peifer $5,000 Arts Commentary – Perspectives on the Arts
Samuel Reed, III and Mpho Reed* $5,000 Arts Commentary – Perspectives on the Arts
Melanie Bilenker $5,000 Crafts
Rain Harris $10,000 Crafts
Vera Nakonechny $5,000 Folk & Traditional Arts – Craft Traditions
Jay Kirk $5,000 Literature – Creative Non-Fiction
August Tarrier $10,000 Literature – Fiction
Christian TeBordo $5,000 Literature – Fiction
Joshua Mosley $5,000 Media Arts – Narrative and Animation
John Avarese $5,000 Music – Jazz/Blues/World and Non-Classical Composition
Lenny Seidman $5,000 Music – Jazz/Blues/World and
Non-Classical Composition
Bobby Zankel $5,000 Music – Jazz/Blues/World and
Non-Classical Composition
Sara Felder $5,000 Theatre – New Performance Forms
Martha McDonald $5,000 Theatre – New Performance Forms
Jamie Merwin $5,000 Theatre – New Performance Forms
Stefan Abrams $5,000 Visual Arts – Photography
Astrid Bowlby $5,000 Visual Arts – Sculpture/Installation
Jeanne Jaffe $10,000 Visual Arts – Sculpture/Installation
James Johnson $5,000 Visual Arts – Sculpture/Installation
James Mills $10,000 Visual Arts – Sculpture/Installation
Richard Ryan $5,000 Visual Arts – Photography

* Collaboration Grants

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