Artist Fellowship Program

Past Fellowship Recipients

FY2021

The Connecticut Office of the Arts awarded fifty-four (54) artists as recipients of the FY2021 Artist Fellowship Program.

Artistic Excellence Awards

Liz Alpert Fay Craft Sandy Hook $5,000
Rachel Berwick Sculpture, Installation Killingworth $5,000
Michael Bradford Playwriting New London $5,000
David Dorfman Choreography New London $5,000
Merik Goma Photography New Haven $5,000
Eric Taylor Theatre, Performance Art Manchester $5,000
Josh Weissbach Film East Haddam $5,000
Artist Fellowship Awards
Holly Danger New Media, Performance Art Stamford $3,000
Dennis Barone Fiction West Hartford $3,000
Roland Becerra Film Bridgeport $3,000
Bob Chaplin Installation, Environmental Art Avon $3,000
David Chevan Music Composition Hamden $3,000
Ryan (ARCY) Christenson Murals, Public Art North Haven $3,000
Jaclyn Conley Painting New Haven $3,000
Jahvon Davis Hip Hop, Songwriting Hartford $3,000
Ellen Griesedieck Painting, Community/Teaching Sharon $3,000
Caroline Harman Painting, 2D Mixed Media Newtown $3,000
Fritz Horstman Sculpture Bethany $3,000
Paula Josa-Jones Choreography Kent $3,000
Lisa Kereszi Photography Branford $3,000
Jin Hi Kim Music Composition Bridgeport $3,000
Jacques Lamarre Playwriting Manchester $3,000
Martha Lewis Multi-Media Installation New Haven $3,000
Raouf Mama Literature Willimantic $3,000
Jeffrey Meris Installation New Haven $3,000
Monica Ong Book Arts, Poetry Trumbull $3,000
David Ottenstein Photography New Haven $3,000
Emma Palzere-Rae Theatre New London $3,000
Rebecca Pappas Performance Art, Choreography Hartford $3,000
David Polochanin Young Readers Marlborough $3,000
Charles Rafferty Poetry Sandy Hook $3,000
Gil Scullion Sculpture/Installation Middletown $3,000
Balam Soto New Media Hartford $3,000
John L. Stanizzi Creative Non-Fiction Coventry $3,000
Jesse Terry Songwriting Pawcatuck $3,000
Marcella Trowbridge Theatre Middletown $3,000
Anthony Valentine Design, Digital Media East Hartford $3,000
Hilary VanWright Design, Community/Teaching Norfolk $3,000
Adam Viens 2D Mixed Media Middletown $3,000
Ben Willis Film, Community/Teaching Lakeville $3,000
Emerging Recognition Awards
Salwa Abdussabur Songwriting New Haven $1,000
Darcy Parker Bruce Playwriting Quaker Hill $1,000
Dymin Ellis Community/Teaching, Poetry New Haven $1,000
Karl Goulet 3D Mixed Media Terryville $1,000
Anya Liftig Creative Writing Westport $1,000
Aly Maderson Quinlog Installation, Photography Essex $1,000
Zulynette Morales Performance Art, Poetry, Painting Hartford $1,000
TJ Noel-Sullivan Film Hartford $1,000
Karinne Smith Sculpture/Installation New Haven $1,000
Emma Welty Craft Woodbury $1,000
Folk & Traditional Arts Awards
Rodbel Virula Mariachi music Wallingford $3,000
Fatima Vejzovic Bosnian weaving Hartford $1,000
Maria Adams Ornamental carvings Simsbury $1,000
Philitha Stemplys-Cowdrey Lithuanian arts & crafts Granby $1,000
Total $150,000

FY2020

The Connecticut Office of the Arts awarded fifty-one (51) artists as recipients of the FY2020 Artist Fellowship Program.
 
  • 7 artists for a $5,000
  • 35 artists for a $3,000
  • and nine (9) emerging recognition awards of $1,000
View the complete list of FY20 recipients here.
 

FY2019

The Connecticut Office of the Arts awarded fifty (50) artists as recipients of the FY2019 Artist Fellowship Program.

  • 10 artists for a $5,000 award,
  • 30 artists for a $3,000 award,
  • and 10 emerging recognition awards of $1,000

View the complete list of recipients here.