I checked my inbox today, and in it was a link to the Durham Arts Council’s Artist Services Update newsletter which comes out every 6 months or so. And in it was an announcement about the DAC’s Emerging Artist’s Ceremony, check it out:
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Beverly McIver to speak at 24th Annual Emerging Artists Awards Ceremony on Feb. 22
Beverly McIver will be speaking at the 24th Annual Emerging Arists Awards Ceremony on Friday, February 22 at 6 pm at the Durham Arts Council. McIver is a former Emerging Artist Recipient and has recently relocated back to Durham, NC.
Beverly McIver was born in 1962 and grew up in Beverly McIver, Artist
Greensboro, North Carolina. She received her BA in Painting and Drawing at North Carolina Central University and her MFA at Pennsylvania State University. McIver is the recipient of numerous grants
and awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and articles on her work have been published in Art in America and Art News. Her paintings are in corporate and museum collections around the
country including the permanent collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art.
2007-2008 Emerging Artist Awards Recipients to be honored include: Kim Arrington, Stafford Berry, Christa Carnell, Steve Gilbert, Christine Grider, Jim Haberman, Christine Hager-Braun, Titus Brooks Heagins, Katja Hill, Louis Joseph, Stacye Leanza, Adia Ledbetter, Shannon Morrow, Usha Raj and Carolyn Twesten.
The Emerging Artists Grant Program, administered by Durham Arts Council, is designed to enable individual artists who have mastered the basic techniques of their art form to complete projects that will establish or enhance their professional careers. Grants may not exceed $1,500. Criteria for making the awards include the accomplishment and commitment of the artist, the feasibility of the proposed project and the impact the project will have on the applicant’s career. This year, a total of $21,864 was awarded. Seventy artists applied to the program.