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NINE
ALABAMIANS TO BE HONORED AT
"Celebration of the Arts Awards"
on Tuesday,
May 21, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. The
event will take
place at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, located at 1 Festival Drive,
Montgomery. A reception will
immediately follow the awards ceremony in the lobby of the theatre. The
event is free and open to the public but reservations
and tickets are required.
2013
Arts Awards recipients
are:
Lyndra
Daniel, Birmingham -
Jonnie Dee Little Lifetime Achievement Award
Rick Bragg, Piedmont
–
Alabama’s Distinguished Artist Award
Dr.
Wayne Flynt, Auburn
-
Governor's Arts Award
Gordon & Geri Moulton, Mobile
-
Governor's Arts Award
Jean Prescott Pierce, Birmingham
-
Governor's Arts Award
Sonia Sanchez, Birmingham
-
Governor's Arts Award
Kitty Seale, Montgomery
-
Governor's Arts Award
Excelsior Band, Mobile
-
The Alabama Folk Heritage Award
Senator J. T. “Jabo” Waggoner, Birmingham
- The Special Council Legacy Award
Click
here for more information
To read the Alabama Arts magazine,
Arts
Awards issue click
here
Elliot
Knight Hired As Visual Arts Program Manager
Knight
is an accomplished photographer, community arts leader,
respected scholar and instructor. He received BA and MA
degrees from the University of Alabama with concentrated
areas of study in the arts. Mr. Knight is scheduled to
receive his PHD from the University of Alabama in American
Studies in December 2012. To read more, click
here.
The
Council announces a new pilot program for Arts In
Education, entitled the Collaborating Artist Program.
Schools may begin application on June 15, 2012.
Applications will be accepted until funds are expended.
Click here for Guidelines included in the CAP Handbook click
here
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FOR
INFO ON GRANTS AWARDED
(please
click here)
SABRIA
WHITE IS ALABAMA'S
NEW
POETRY CHAMPION
From
a competitive field of over 6,000 students from across the
state, Sabria
White, a student from New Century Technology High School
in Madison County was selected as the 2013 Alabama Poetry
Out Loud State Champion. The
Statewide Finals was held in partnership with
the Alabama State Council on the Arts,
the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education, the
Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Alabama Writers’
Forum. (Click
here to read the full press release)
Photo
by Julian Green
ASCA’s
Al Head Wins National Heritage Fellowship Award
NEA
Chairman Rocco Landesman (right) presents Al Head,
Executive Director of the Alabama State Council on the
Arts, with the 2012 Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage
Fellowship Award. The National Heritage Fellowships are
the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional
arts and the Bess Lomax Hawes Award recognizes an
individual who has made a significant contribution to the
preservation and awareness of cultural heritage. At the
ceremony, Rocco Landesman said, “An arts agency
executive who has initiated folk arts programs in three
states, Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama, Al Head is a
tireless advocate for living artistic heritage as a key
element in defining and expressing a state's shared
cultural assets.” Photo by Tom Pich, courtesy of the
National Endowment for the Arts
To
read the full press release click
here.
Read
about Alabama
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(formerly
the Rural School Touring Program)
This
program offers FREE performances to qualified schools. To learn
more about this program or to submit an application,
please click
here.
Alabama Masters: Artists
and Their Work was produced
in conjunction with the Alabama
Year of the Arts, an initiative of the Alabama
Bureau of Tourism and Travel and the Alabama
State Council on the Arts.
For
teachers using the Alabama Masters book in lesson plans, please click
here.
Alabama Masters: Artists
and Their Work features
forty-two artists and is a partnership publication between the
Alabama State Council on the Arts and six major art museums in
the state. The full color paperback features an essay and images
of each artist’s work, with the goal of honoring the
individual artists and highlighting museum collections. The
selection of artists was based on guidelines determined by
the museum directors.
The National Endowment for the Arts has
funded a series of projects throughout the country under the
broad heading of American Masterpieces, and this publication is
Alabama’s contribution. It is a major step toward
compiling the state’s visual arts history, cultural fabric,
and national contributions of its artists.
The
book is available for a $25 donation to the Alabama
Craft Council, 201 Monroe Street, Suite 110, Montgomery, AL
36104-3721. For additional info, contact: staff@arts.alabama.gov
Links:
http://www.800alabama.com/
http://www.arts.alabama.gov
http://www.arts.endow.gov/
Educational
Resources Available. For more
information, click
here
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