We're proud to announce a sampling of recent accomplishments of Artist Trust grant recipients and EDGE graduates. Send us your news!

:: 2010 ::

Almost all the recipients of Seattle's 2010 CityArtist Projects grants are past Artist Trust grant recipients or EDGE grads!

Victoria Bjorklund's work was featured in the January/February 2010 issue of LensWork.

Wendy Call will be Artist in Residence at the Everglades National Park and Penland School of Crafts.

Sue Danielson received an Honorable Mention at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey's 24th Annual International Juried Show.

Serge Gregory's film When Herons Dream was awarded a Jury's Citation (2nd Place) by the 29th Black Maria Film & Video Festival, which exhibits nationally at over 40 venues.

John Jeffcoat's film Outsourced has been adapted into a TV series and bought by NBC.

Dayton K Knipher received the Larson Gallery Guild Award in the Yakima Light Project.

Julia Lowther's Jet Heart Necklace is featured in 500 Gemstone Jewels.

Amelia Reeber won first place at On The Boards's The A.W.A.R.D. Show!

Lynn Shelton was featured on MTV's Rough Cut.

Kenneth Susynski received Honorable Mention in the 2010 ArtCompete Abstract Art Competition.

:: 2009 ::

Marc Dombrosky, Ellen Ito, Joe Miller, Yuki Nakamura and Holly Senn were nominated for The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation's 2009 Foundation of Art Award.

Mandy Greer, Steven Miller, Peter Mumford, Haruko Nishimura and others were profiled in The Seattle Times.

Deborah Hopkinson received the Oregon Book Awards' Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature.

Wayne Horvitz was interviewed on KUOW.

Andrea Lawson was interviewed on the Signet Studio blog.

Perri Lynch is a 2009-10 Fulbright Scholar.

Steven Miller, Peter Mumford and Haruko Nishimura were profiled in The Seattle Times.

Suzanne Morrison blogs about books on the Huffington Post.

Nu Quang's fantasy comedy Confucius Discovers America received an Honorable Mention from Writer's Digest's 2009 Writing Competition.

Mary Sherhart was interviewed by Carla Moreno of the Musiciancorps of Music National Service.

Trimpin was profiled in Wired magazine.

Patti Warashina received a 2009 Regis Masters Series from the Northern Clay Center and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Michelle Bates was profiled in Shutterbug magazine.

Stephen Chalmers's Climbing the Ladder with Gabriel was published by Sense Publishers.

Jeffry Mitchell won a 2009 Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Jenny Heishman's Water Mover won a Public Art Network's Year in Review Top 40 Public Art Projects award. She also won the 2009 PONCHO Special Recognition award.

Inge Norgaard received a month's residency at the Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland.

Becky Frehse and Yuki Nakamura's work was chosen for the Pierce County Art Bank portable artwork collection.

Naomi Gray won first place at the current Women Painters of Washington at American Art Company show.

Julie Lindell was featured on the Seattle Channel's Art Zone.

Sibyl James' Pistols and Hearts (partially funded by an Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects) was published.

Betsy Best-Spadaro was selected for the 2009 Nagasawa Art Park Artist-in-Residence Woodblock Printmaking Program in Japan.

Alex Schweder was Artist-in-Residence at The Chinati Foundation in Texas.

Chris Crites was interviewed in Redefine Magazine.

Lois Thadei received a Washington State Arts Commission Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program Award.

Olivier Wevers was selected for the 2009 National Choreographers Initiative.

Donna Miscolta received a residency at the Atlanta Center for the Arts (partially supported by her 2009 Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects).

Timothy Cross and Eric Elliott were 2009 Neddy Artist Fellowship recipients.

Kathleen Frugé-Brown and her six-member team won Pilchuck Glass School's 2009 Hauberg Fellowship.

Peter Ludwin's first full-length book of poetry, A Guest in All Your Houses, was published by Word Walker Press.

Betty Hageman received a 2010 artist residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

Susan Zoccola's sculptures were permanently installed at the Auburn Golf Course.

Amy Denio, Chad Goller-Sojourner, Ben Gonio, Stefan Gruber, Julia Haack, David Hahn, Dayna Hanson, Robin Holcomb, Brian Kooser, Joan Laage, Tiffany Li Chin Lin, KT Niehoff, Haruko Nishimura, Amy O'Neal, Amelia Reeber, Tikka Sears, Cuong Vu and Jennifer Zeyl all received 2009 CityArtist Projects grants.

Many Artist Trust grant recipients and EDGE grads received 2009 4Culture Individual Artist Projects funding.

Janice Arnold's installation Palace Yurt was featured on the front page of The New York Times' Arts section on May 1, 2009.

Ana Maria Spagna's manuscript Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey, partially supported by an Artist Trust GAP, won the 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, and will be published by University of Nebraska.

David Russo was chosen to direct the Blue Man Group movie. He showed his The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and won Best Director at the Fantastia Film Festival. He was also interviewed by Warren Etheredge.

Rick Araluce won the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Award.

Lyn Coffin's work will be shown at the Short + Sweet Singapore theatre festival. Lyn says, "Wouldn't have happened without EDGE!"

Stan Raucher won the Yakima Regional Medical & Cardiac Center Award at Larson Gallery's 36th National Photography Exhibition, for his Metro Line Near Les Halles.

Naomi Gray was accepted as a member of Women Painters of Washington.

Nancy Rawles's book My Jim was chosen by The Seattle Public Library's Washington Center for the Book for its 2009 Seattle Reads program.

Dominique Gabella, Fay Jones and others were profiled on KUOW's Old Masters series.

Janice Arnold was featured on The Martha Stewart Show, and her recent NYC exhibit was praised by Greg Bell, curator of Art Collections for Vulcan, Inc.: "Her piece, Palace Yurt, is yards and yards of extraordinary hand-made felted silk that forms a shimmering translucent canopy in the [Cooper Hewitt] Museum's glass Conservatory."

Cheri O'Brien's artwork was selected for 16 Swift Stations along the new Bus Rapid Transit Corridor from Everett to Shoreline.

Etsuko Ichikawa was featured in GLASS Quarterly Magazine.

Many Artist Trust grant recipients and EDGE graduates were chosen for Seattle City Light's 2009 Portable Works Collection.

Inge Norgaard received a month-long residency at Hollufgard in Denmark.

Julie Scandora's book Rules Are Rules won first place in children's fiction from Readers Views.

Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley's Stability and Other Tenuous Positions was profiled on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Mandy Greer was profiled in Fiberarts Magazine and The Seattle Times. 

Jill Widner was a runner-up for the 2009 Willesden Herald International Short Story Competition. Her Meet the Artist event was broadcast on Yin Radio. She was awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Excerpts from her novel-in-progress were published in Kartika Review and Asia Literary Review. Another excerpt was a finalist in the Spring 2009 Narrative short-story competition.

Diem Chau's work was featured in Tangible!, American Craft Magazine and on a television commercial for U.S. Cellular.

Kelly Lyles' art cars were featured in the Seattle Times' NW Autos.

Victoria Bjorklund, Becky Frehse, Matthew Johnson, Fumiko Kimura, Amy Reeves and Nicholas Stokes received 2009-2010 Tacoma Artists Initiative Program funding.

Sarah Jane Lapp's film Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist (partially funded by Artist Trust) will have its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

Kristen Ramirez was selected as artist-in-residence at Seattle's Fremont Bridge.

Karen Rudd won first place at the Collective Visions Art Gallery's 2009 CVG Show.

Diana Falchuk, Gregory Glynn, Julia Haack, Chauney Peck, Scott Schuldt and Laura Ward were commissioned by Seattle Public Utilities to create artworks for its Portable Works Collection.

Kevin Craft was featured on the Jack Straw Literary Podcast.

Zoe Scofield was profiled in The Boston Globe.

Akio Takamori was featured on Seattle Channel's Art Zone.

Ann Gerike won first place in the Washington Poets Association's William Stafford Contest; her poem will be included in the WPA Cascade Journal.

Storme Webber was chosen for the 2009 Jack Straw Writers Program.

Chris Crites was profiled in the February issue of Seattle Magazine.

Rebecca Hoogs was featured in the Poetry Foundation's Online Journal.

Crista Matteson and Zachary Mazur received Juror's Choice Awards at the Environmental Art Exhibition at The Gallery, Tacoma Community College.

Byron Au Yong and James Coupe won 2009 Creative Capital grants.

Stephen Chalmers' work was acquired for the permanent collection at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Marita Dingus was named Artist in Residence at the James Washington House and Studio.

Jane Lackey was named a 2009 Pratt Fine Arts Center Visiting Artist.

Lynn Shelton showed her Humpday at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. She was nominated for a "Someone to Watch" Award at the 2009 Film Independent's Spirit Awards for My Effortless Brilliance. She was featured on the front page of the New York Times' Arts & Leisure section, and was named one of the 2009 Most Influential People of the Year by Seattle Magazine.

:: Other Notables ::

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

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

Linda Bierds received a 1998 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, a PEN/West Poetry award, the Washington State Governor's Writers Award, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, the Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America, a 1995 Notable Book Selection from the American Library Association, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Eduardo Calderón won a 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and was a 2003 visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.

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."

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

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. Her poetry was read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac.

Pat Graney won a 2008 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and was named a 2008 USA Fellow.

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.

Gary Hill was the recipient of 1986 and 1990 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

Wayne Horvitz's work has been commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, Kronos String Quartet, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Earshot Jazz, and others.

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

Fay Jones received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a residency at La Napoule Art Foundation.

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

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

Amy O'Neal received a National Dance Project touring grant.

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.

Judith Roche was presented with One Reel's 2007 Golden Umbrella Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. Her poetry collection Wisdom of the Body won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

Alex Schweder was a 2006 Architecture Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Mary Sheldon Scott's Geography was a 2007 National Performance Network Creation Fund Project, co-commissioned by the Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents in partnership with On the Boards and the National Performance Network.

Lynn Shelton’s My Effortless Brilliance debuted at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival. The film has been acquired for worldwide release by IFC Films.

Akio Takamori received a 2004 Flintridge Foundation Award, a 2001 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, and three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

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

Trimpin was the recipient of a 1997 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

Jim Woodring and Bill Frisell were named 2006 United States Artist Fellows.

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