We're proud to announce a sampling of accomplishments of Artist Trust grant recipients and EDGE graduates. Send your news to lila@artisttrust.org!

:: 2008 ::

Diem Chau, Paul Rucker, Lynn Shelton, and Zoe Scofield all received Seattle Magazine 2008-09 Spotlight Awards.

Lauren Osmolski's work is featured in Ironwork Today 2, Inside and Out.

Christine Carlyle Reed received a Seattle Print Arts Society scholarship.

Sarah Hood was named a 2008-09 PONCHO/PRATT Artist-in-Resident.

Perri Lynch's work was profiled in Art in America's 2007 Art in Review.

Diem Chau's work was featured on the cover of Fiberarts Magazine, in The New York Times Style Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Poland's VOX Design.

Lynn Shelton's film, "My Effortless Brilliance," has been acquired for worldwide release by IFC Films.

Otto Youngers received a residency at the 3rd International Art Workshop in Thailand.

Paul Mullin, Lynn Shelton, and Jessie Smith/Implied Violence were winners of the 2008 Stranger Genius Awards.

Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs' 2008 CityArtist Projects were awarded to Emily Beyer, Drew Daly, Eric Eley, John Grade, John Helde, Salise Hughes, Susie Lee, Perri Lynch, Heather Oaksen, Susan Robb, Alex Schweder, John Sutton, Curtis Taylor, Dan Webb, and Mark Zirpel.

Zan Agzigian's first collection of poetry, Stamen and Whirlwind, was published by Gribble Press.

Yuki Nakamuru's artist monograph book was published.

Ann Pancake's book Strange As This Weather Has Been was a finalist for the 2008 Orion Book Award. 

Betty Hageman received a 2008 fellowship from the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming.

Brenda Miller received a 2008 Pushcart Prize for her essay "Blessing of the Animals," which appeared in the November 2007 issue of The Sun. This is her fifth Pushcart Prize. 

Dionne Bonner, Wendy Call, and Brenda Miller were featured in the Summer 2008 issue of Centrum's Experience magazine.

Kathleen Alcalá's The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing earned First Place in the Autobiography/Memoir in English category of the International Latino Book Awards.

Nancy Pagh's poetry chapbook, After, won the Floating Bridge Press Poetry Chapbook Award.

Hugo Ludeña and Cathryn Vandenbrink received 2008 Seattle Mayor's Arts Awards.

Pat Graney won a 2008 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.

2008 4Culture Individual Projects were awarded to many Artist Trust grant recipients and EDGE graduates.

Suzie Kozawa*, Tiffany Li-Chin Lin*, William O. Smith*, Curtis Taylor* and Erin Shie Palmer* received residencies from Jack Straw Productions' 2008 Artist Support Program.

The King County Public Art Collection selected work by Gretchen Bennett, Leo Berk, Robert Connell, Claire Cowie, Tim Cross, Chris Engman, Claudia Fitch, Victoria Haven, Jenny Heishman, Mary Henry, Barbara Noah, Kristen Ramirez and Claude Zervas for their portable arts collection.

Patti Warashina was named 2008 PONCHO Artist of the Year. Christopher Buening, Diem Chau, Chris Crites, Tom DeGroot, Karen Ganz, Hugo Ludeña, Rachel Maxi, Timea Tihanyi and Patti Warashina won 2008 PONCHO Artistic Merit Awards.

David Russo, SuttonBeresCuller and Trimpin received 2008 Creative Capitol artist grants.

Kathleen Alcalá and Nancy Rawles were both featured in the April 2008 issue of Seattle Woman magazine. 

Barbara Bowen was featured in the Spring 2008 issue of the Bellevue Literary Review.

Rhonda Broatch's Shedding Our Skins was published by Finishing Line Press.

Wendy Call, Kevin Craft, Rebecca Hoogs, Jennifer Munro and Ghida Sinno were selected to be resident artists in 2008 Jack Straw Writers Program.

Chris Crites's work was shown at Paper Boat Boutique and Gallery (Milwaukee, WI), Bogda Gallery (Jacksonville, FL), Red Dot Art Fair (New York), and Robert Berman Gallery (Santa Monica, CA).

Lyanda Haupt’s* Crow Planet was published by Little, Brown and Company, featuring illustrations by Daniel Cautrell*.

Etsuko Ichikawa was featured in Studio Visit Volume Two.

Yvonne Kunz received a month-long residency at the Montana Artist Refuge in Basin, Montana.

Deborah Lawrence's book Dee Dee Does Utopia was published by Marquand Books. 

Peter Ludwin had poems published in Concho River Review and The Comstock Review, and later this year in The Prague Revue, Quercus Review, Red Wheelbarrow, South Dakota Review, Flint Hills Review and Hurricane Review. His poetry was a finalist for the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, and he was named the Second Prize Winner of the 2007-2008 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience.

Corinna Luyke's paintings were seen in the new movie Baby Mama.

Margie McDonald received a residency and solo show at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, MO.

Jane Orlemann received a 2008 Larson Gallery Arts Award.

Allan Packer exhibited his work at The Front Room in Brooklyn, NY.

Susan Rich's poem, "At Middle Age: A Romance," was published in the New England Review. She was also invited to read at the Cuirt Festival in Galway.

Judith Roche's poetry collection Wisdom of the Body won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

Tammie Rubin was the featured artist in the May issue of Ceramics Monthly.

Mary Lou Sanelli's poetry collection Small Talk was published by High Plains Press. A staged reading her The Immigrant's Table (made possible in part through an Artist Trust GAP) was selected to be part of the 2008 programming at New York City's Tenement Museum Theater. Sanelli was also awarded a 2007 residency at The La Napoule Art Foundation in France.

Julie Scandora's Rules Are Rules was published by Atlas Books.

Derek Sheffield's A Revised Account of the West won the inaugural Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook contest sponsored by Flyway Literary Magazine. The full-length manuscript was a finalist for the 2008 Brittingham Prize and a semi-finalist for the 2008 Walt Whitman Award. The chapbook is forthcoming from Iowa State University.

Lynn Shelton’s My Effortless Brilliance debuted at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival.

Lois Chichinoff Thadei’s* print Cariboo Passing Through was accepted into an upcoming show titled “In Transition Russia 2008” in Moscow.

Timea Tihanyi's work was shown at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.

Kristin Tollefson* was named a 2008 Island Treasure by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council.

Eva Skold Westerlind exhibited her work at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago.

:: 2007 ::

2007 4Culture Special Projects grants were awarded to Wendy Call, Daniel Cautrell, Drew Daly, John Grade, Pat Graney, Mandy Greer, Rebecca Hoogs,Wayne Horvitz, Cheryll Leo-Gwin, Donna Miscolta, Yuki Nakamura, Amy Reeber, Molly Scott, Tikka Sears, Cheryl Slean, Ellen Sollod, John Sutton, Miho Takekawa, Curtis Taylor and Allison Van Dyck.

Kathleen Alcalá's The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing, was published in April 2007 by The University of Arizona Press. 

Jeannette Allée and Kary Wayson were both included in The Best American Poetry 2007.

2007 Jack Straw Artist Residency Awards were given to Linda Allen and  Wayne Horvitz.

Betty Bastai received the 2007 Patron Award from the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, and a 2007 ArtPatch Healthy Funding Award.

Laurie Blaunder's novel, Infinite Kindness, was published in January 2007 by Black Heron Press.

Alan Braden and Kelli Russell Agodon received 2007 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes.

Deb Caletti's five coming-of-age novels were acquired by Vulcan Productions and will be made into a series of movies entitled "Nine Mile Falls."

An anthology co-edited by Wendy Call, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide was published by Plume/Penguin in February 2007. Wendy was also awarded a 2007 Fishtrap Fellowship, 2007 4Culture Individual Artist Award, and residencies at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Ucross Foundation.

Kathleen Flenniken’s first collection of poems, Famous, won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry and has been published by the University of Nebraska Press. It was also named a "2007 Notable Book" by the American Library Association.

Kathleen Frugé-Brown and Justin Gibbens received Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants in 2007.

Betty Hageman received a fellowship for the month of November 2007 at the Artist Residency Program, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia.

Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo of Lead Pencil Studio won the American Academy in Rome 2007-2008 Rome Prize Competition. They were also awarded a 2006 Stranger Genius Award.

Sharon Hashimoto was given a 2007 Exemplary Status award by the Washington Community and Technical College Humanities Association.

David Owen Hastings was a 2007 Artist in Residence at Centrum in Port Townsend.

John Jeffcoat's film Outsourced is being developed into a TV comedy by NBC and the director of "The Office."

The King County Public Art Collection selected the work of 72 artists for inclusion in its 2007 portable works collection, including many Artist Trust grant recipients and EDGE graduates.

Amanda Koster was profiled in the book In Their Shoes.

Laurie Lamon was chosen by Poet Laureate Donald Hall for the 2007 Witter Bynner Fellowship and introduced by Hall at the Library of Congress. 

Melissa Lang won $1,000 in the 2007 All Media Juried Show at Spokane’s Chase Gallery. 

Jennifer Maier won the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award for Dark Alphabet. She received a cash award, publication by Southern Illinois University Press, and an honorarium for a reading at SIU in Carbondale.

Erin Malone's chapbook What Sound Does It Make won the 2007 Concrete Wolf Press Chapbook Competition, and will be published in Fall 2008.

Allison Manch received a 2007-08 PONCHO artist-in-residence scholarship at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle.

Richard Hugo House’s Hugo Writers Fund awarded Frances McCue (2003 GAP) $4,500 in in-kind space and/or honoraria to create and promote literary work.

Inge Norgaard received a six-week residency at Denmark's Gaesteatelier Hollufgaard in Winter 2006, and had a solo show at the Art Center Silkeborg Bad in Denmark in early 2007. 

Heather Dew Oaksen's images were selected for Visual Codec's One Shot 2006 flipbook. Heather was also selected for a residency in the 2007-08 Jack Straw New Media Gallery residency program. 

Ann Pancake’s novel Strange As This Weather Has Been was published by Shoemaker & Hoard in November 2007. Pancake was also one of six writers nationwide to be awarded the Christopher Isherwood Foundation 2005 Fiction Fellowship.

Joseph Park was awarded a 2007 PONCHO Special Recognition Award.

Susan Rich's work was published in Slovenian in Literatura. 

The Tacoma Arts Commission awarded funding in 2007 to Betty Ragan, Elise Richman, and Kevin Miller.

Judith Roche was presented with One Reel's 2007 Golden Umbrella Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.

Karen Rudd received a 2007 fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center.

Scott Schuldt received an honorable mention at the ANA 35 National Juried Art Exhibition at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, MT. Scott also had a four-piece series of artwork selected by the King County Art Collection in their 2007 portable works purchase.

Alex Schweder received a 2007 Stranger Genius Award.

Derek Sheffield was the 2007 Bernheim Writer-in-Residence and was nominated for Best New Poets 2007.

Crispin Spaeth was named Velocity Dance Center's 2007 Choreographer-in-Residence.

Two of Claude Zervas' prints were purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2007.

:: 2006 ::

Byron Au Yong, Donald Fels and SuttonBeresCuller participated in the King County Performance Network’s SITE-SPECIFIC/2006 events.

Pat Moriarity was "Artist of the Month" on the Art Phobia website in November 2006.

Brian Murphy received a 2006 Neddy Artist Fellowship.

At the 2006 Torun Film Festival in Poland, Lynn Shelton’s feature film We Go Way Back won the Grand Prize for Best Picture and Best Director. It also won both the Grand Jury Prize and Vision Award for Best Cinematography at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival.

Lisa Telford received a Southwestern Association for Indian Arts 2006 Fellowship award.

:: 1997 ::

Trimpin was the recipient of a 1997 MacArthur "Genius" Award.