FY23 Recipients
The Connecticut Office of the Arts awarded sixty-nine (69) artists as recipients of the FY2023 Artist Fellowship Program.
Artistic Excellence Awards |
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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 |
lyaba lbo Mandingo |
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 |