2004 Fellowship/Professional Assistance Award Recipients

Click thumbnail below to view or download larger image Enlargements are 300 PPI JPG images	*2004 FELLOWSHIP AWARD RECIPIENTS ($7500)* VISUAL ARTS
1207 x 1200 4.15M	Letitia Quesenberry - Louisville Mixed Media 2-D E-mail: [email protected] Letitia Quesenberry has exhibited artwork in multiple galleries and museums, including Speed Art Museum, Zephyr Gallery, and Actor's Theatre. In 2001, the Sister Cities Artists Enrichment Program chose her to represent Louisville artists in Mainz, Germany, where her drawings won 3rd prize.
1354 x 1800 6.98M	Gayle Williamson - Louisville Mixed Media 2-D E-mail: [email protected] Gayle Williamson has traveled all over the world in order to broaden her chosen art form of embroidery. She has exhibited nationally over the past 13 years and has been featured in several publications, including Fiber Arts, The Flying Needle, and Needle Arts. Her work hangs in the White House, St Luke's Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, as well as several churches and museums.
1117 x 1200 3.84M	Yvonne Petkus - Bowling Green Painting E-mail: [email protected] Presently a professor at Western Kentucky University, Yvonne Petkus has studied artwork in cities that range from New York to Madrid and many places between. Her paintings have been exhibited in Washington, New York, and Kentucky, among other states. She has also given several lectures on art and the artistic process.
1800 x 1397 7.2M	Gary Noland, Jr. - Lexington Painting E-mail: [email protected] Gary Noland, Jr. received his MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Kentucky in 1999. Born and raised in Kentucky, he has been included in regional and national art exhibitions and contests from which he has received awards of merit.
1800 x 1412 7.28M	Mary Tortorici - Richmond Photography E-mail: [email protected] A photographer for over 30 years, Mary Tortorici attended the graduate program in photography at Yale University. She has received numerous grants and awards for her photographs, including a Film in the Cities/ McKnight Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant.
1462 x 1800 7.53M	Rebekka Seigel - Owenton Craft E-mail: [email protected] Rebekka Seigel's Paper Doll series of quilts depicting historically significant women has won her much acclaim and has been exhibited in galleries and museums all over the United States. Her quilts have been featured in many quilting publications and books, such as The Quilting Quarterly, Living With Quilts, and Contemporary Pictorial Quilts.
1800 x 1503 7.75M	Judith Pointer Jia - Danville Craft - Ceramics E-mail: [email protected] Head of the ceramics department at Centre College, Judith Pointer Jia has been teaching and demonstrating ceramics for nearly 10 years. She has exhibited her work at multiple Lexington, Kentucky galleries, as well as galleries in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California.
1229 x 1800 6.34M	Tom Bartel - Bowling Green Craft - Ceramic E-mail: [email protected] A professor at Western Kentucky University, Tom Bartel has exhibited his work regionally, nationally, and internationally. His work has been featured in several ceramics publications such as Ceramics Monthly and Ceramics Art & Perception, as well as several textbooks.
1500 x 1200 5.16M	Valerie Fuchs - Shelbyville Video Installation E-mail: [email protected] Valerie Fuchs combines video and sculpture in exciting ways, and she has worked with Actors Theatre of Louisville on multiple productions, including Macbeth in 2002. She is the only regional artist included in the upcoming Speed Art Museum exhibit Presence.
1312 x1800 6.74M	Scott Massey - Louisville Mixed Media 3-D E-mail: [email protected] Currently an instructor and the area head for Sculpture at the University of Louisville, Scott Massey has participated in exhibitions across the United States. He has also taught sculpture at a study abroad program in Scotland.
1188 x 1800 6.12M	Suzanne Mitchell - Louisville Mixed Media 3-D E-mail: [email protected] A photographer turned sculptor, Suzanne Mitchell has exhibited art in dozens of group exhibitions and several solo exhibitions in multiple countries, including the United States, Ireland and Germany. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Speed Art Museum, Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University.
1188 x 1188 5.18M	Travis Townsend - Richmond Mixed Media 3-D 309 General Smith Dr E-mail: [email protected] Travis Townsend has shown his wood and mixed-media sculptures in several exhibitions all over the United States and as far away as Taiwan (part of the International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition). He currently teaches art at Eastern Kentucky University.
1188 x 1800 5.99M	Matthew Weddington - Lexington Experimental 1R Gallery 119 N Peoria St #3D Chicago, IL 60607 E-mail: [email protected] or Linda Schwartz Gallery 315 West Forth Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 E-mail: [email protected] Matthew Weddington received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been involved in several group shows in Chicago, Huntington, West Virginia, and Austin, Texas. This year he will have a solo exhibit at 1R Gallery in Chicago, featuring his unique view of society's obsession with fame and the famous.

	MEDIA
	Ron Schildknecht - Louisville Media E-mail: [email protected] Ron Schildknecht has worked in film and media for two decades as a producer, director, editor and instructor. His film Borderlines won a merit award at the Louisville Film and Video Festival and a Certificate of Merit at the North Carolina International Film and Video Festival.

2004 PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE AWARD RECIPIENTS ($1000)

Reba Rye Visual Art Mixed Media 2-D Lockport	Brent Oglesbee Visual Art Mixed Media 3-D Bowling Green
Gerald Ferstman Visual Art Painting Lexington	Keiko Akiyama Visual Art Mixed Media 3-D Louisville
Connie Noyes Visual Art Painting Paducah	Louis Larson Visual Art Mixed Media 3-D Covington
Steve Armstrong Visual Art Craft Lexington	Elizabeth Barrett Media Pikesville
Arturo Sandoval Visual Art Craft Lexington	Morgan Atkinson Media Louisville
Felicia Szorad Visual Art Craft Richmond	Tom Hansell Media Whitesburg

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Revised: February 23, 2004