Artist Fellowship Program

FY23 Recipients

The Connecticut Office of the Arts awarded sixty-nine (69) artists as recipients of the FY2023 Artist Fellowship Program.

 Artistic Excellence Awards

Jen Allen
Music Composition, Jazz, Ensemble
Bloomfield $5,000
Lydia Blaisdell
Playwriting New London
$5,000
Doe Boyle
Literary Arts, Young Readers
Madison $5,000
Victoria Buitron
Literary Arts
Norwalk
$5,000
Jolet Creary
Performance Art, Multimedia, Hip Hop
Bloomfield
$5,000
Frances Ortiz
Choreography, Contemporary Dance, Ballet
Norwalk
$5,000
Tanju Ozdemir
Digital Media, Short Film
South Windsor
$5,000
Ougie Pak
Digital Media, Screenwriting, Fiction, Film
Manchester $5,000
Ricardo Reyes
Music Composition, Performance Art
Fairfield  $5,000
Jessica Smolinski
Textile, Installation, Sculpture, Photography
New Haven
 $5,000
 Artist Fellowship Awards
Mike Alger
Illustration, Graphic Novel
Mystic
$3,000
Megan Bent
Mixed Media, Photography, Environmental Art
Hartford $3,000
Sandra Burns
Sculpture New Haven
$3,000
Catherine Christiano
Painting
Old Lyme
$3,000
Rand Cooper
Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction
Hartford $3,000
Terri Linn Davis
Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction
Woodbridge $3,000
Ted Efremoff
Performance Art
West Hartford
$3,000
Leslie Elias
Community / Teaching Youth Theater
West Cornwall
$3,000
Elizabeth Ellenwood
Photography
Pawcatuck $3,000
Joan Fitzsimmons
Photography Hamden $3,000
Hirokazu Fukawa
Sculpture, Multimedia
Tariffville $3,000
Rachel Furey
Fiction, Prose, Creative Non-Fiction
New Haven
$3,000
Greg Garvey
Digital Media, New Media, Animation
Hamden $3,000
Katherine Hauswirth
Creative Non-Fiction
Deep River
$3,000
Lara Herscovitch
Songwriting Guilford $3,000
Ronald Jenkins
Theater, Performance
Fairfield $3,000
Amy LaBossiere
Creative Non-Fiction
Hartford $3,000
Tao LaBossiere
Illustration, Public Art, Murals
Hartford $3,000
Ellen Litman
Fiction
Mansfield
$3,000
Carol J. Macy
Community/Teaching, Youth Theater
Willimantic $3,000
Aly Maderson Quinlog
Book Arts
Essex
$3,000
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Cultural/Traditional Arts, Playwriting, Poetry
Bridgeport $3,000
Sache-Gaye Marshall
Songwriting, Jazz, Performance Art
East Hartford
$3,000
Terone Montgomery
Textile Design
New Haven
$3,000
Leigh Morfoot
Documentary Film
Norwalk $3,000
Jason Morfoot
Documentary Film
Norwalk $3,000
Alan Neider
Mixed Media, Crafts, Textile Design
Hamden $3,000
Adam Niklewicz
Sculpture, Installation
North Haven
$3,000
Jeff Ostergren
Painting, Installation
New Haven
$3,000
Grace Palmer
Painting
Stonington
$3,000
Magdalena Pawlowski
Painting Storrs Mansfield
$3,000
Gelah Penn
Mixed Media, Installation
West Cornwall
$3,000
Danielle Pieratti
Poetry, Literary Translations
Glastonbury $3,000
Daniel Pizarro
Graphic Design, Animation
New Haven
 $3,000
Caitlin Quinn
Ballet, Contemporary Dance
Suffield  $3,000
Jess Rawling
Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction
Seymour  $3,000
Emida Roller
Community/Teaching, Murals, Public Art
Pomfret Center
 $3,000
Karen Romano Young
Illustration, Young Readers
Bethel  $3,000
Daniel Salazar
Music Composition, Latin Music
Hartford  $3,000
Megan Shaughnessy
Multimedia, Fiber Arts, Photography
Hamden  $3,000
Maya Rogers
Songwriting, Music Composition
Mansfield Center
$3,000
Suzanne Smith
Creative Non-Fiction
Wilton
 $3,000
Cary Smith
Painting, Printmaking
Farmington  $3,000
Kayode Soyemi
Performance Art, Satire
New Haven
 $3,000
Ken Steen
Music, Multimedia
Glasonbury $3,000
Lydia Viscardi
Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture
Newtown  $3,000
Jim Whitten
Sculpture, Photography
Suffield  $3,000
Paco Winebox
Drawing, Quilting, Painting
Middletown
$3,000
Derron Woods
Puppetry, Animation, Playwriting
New London
 $3,000
Nicole Zuraitis
Music Composition, Jazz
West Haven
 $3,000
 Emerging Recognition Awards 
Lauren Be Dear
Multimedia, Installation, Spoken Word
West Hartford
$1,000

Bridget Brown

Improv Theater, Storytelling
Waterford $1,000
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
Poetry Bloomfield $1,000
Azza Elsiddique
Sculpture, Installation
New Haven
$1,000
Jasmine Jones
Community/Teaching, Performance Art
Hartford $1,000

Daniel E. Kaminski

Digital Media, Documentary, Photography
Bethany $1,000
Daniel Kim
Digital Media, Podcasting, Comic Book
Stamford $1,000
Esthea Kim
Installation, Sculpture, Painting
Madison $1,000
Raymond Pinto
Performance Art, Ballet, Contemporary Dance
Bridgeport $1,000
 Total $209,000