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August Issue 2005
SC Arts Commission in Columbia, SC, Announces Artist Fellowships for 2006
The Board of Commissioners of the SC Arts Commission is honoring six professional artists residing in South Carolina with 2006 Artist Fellowships. Each fellow receives $2,000 in recognition of superior artistic merit. In addition, the SCAC has named alternates in each category who do not receive monetary awards, but are considered notable in the competitive selection process. The 2006 SC Arts Commission Fellows are:
Literary Arts
Poetry - Debra A. Daniel, Blythewood, Richland County
Alternate - Philip Belcher, Spartanburg, Spartanburg County
Prose - Kris McGuire, Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County
Alternate - Mindy Friddle, Greenville, Greenville County
Performing Arts
Music Composition - Maxine Miller Warshauer, Columbia, Richland
County
Alternate - John Fitz Rogers, Columbia, Richland County
Visual Arts
Crafts - David Ross Puls, Charleston, Charleston County
Alternate - David Grey Russell, Camden, Kershaw County
Visual Arts - Mana D.C. Hewitt, Columbia, Richland
County
Alternate - Leslie Kendall Rech, Columbia, Richland County
Fellows and alternates are selected through a competitive application process. Out-of-state review panelists make recommendations for selections based solely on a review of work samples. The panel's recommendations are approved by the board of the SC Arts Commission. 2006 Fellowship panelists were: Wendy Mnookin, Chestnut Hill, MA (Poetry); Margot Livesey, Cambridge, MA (Prose); Jonathan Morris, Jon Ozment, Alexander Gardner, all of Washington, DC (Music Composition); Libby Rowe, Nashville, TN; Tom Bartel, Bowling Green, KY; Kristina Arnold, Nashville, TN (Crafts and Visual Arts).
Info About the 2006 Artist Fellows
(Information provided by the artists. Complete resumes available)
Debra A. Daniel, Blythewood - Artist Fellow in Literary Arts, Poetry - Daniel won the Southern Poetry Review's Guy Owen Prize for "Hymn of Invitation" in 2002. Other awards include the Lyric Poem Prize, Carruthers Memorial Prize, Jeanne Broulik Memorial Prize, Post and Courier Prize, Peale Prize, Doyle Prize (various years) given by the Poetry Society of SC. In 2001 she received the Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize from the Poetry Society of SC and the Nona Stuck Fiction Scholarship to attend Squaw Valley Fiction Writers' Conference. She was the South Carolina Arts Commission's Fellow in Poetry in 1994, and also received fellowships for emerging authors in fiction (4) and poetry (1) from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She is a six-time winner, South Carolina Fiction Project. Her "Signs of Deer" was selected by Janette Turner Hospital for Inheritance - Selections from the SC Fiction Project. Readings include Sundown Poetry Series at Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, SC, Poetry Society of SC, Poetry Rendezvous in Savannah, GA, Greenville Public Library, Richland County Public Library, Finley House, Wrenn House Series, Black Cat Series in Salisbury, NC. Her work has been published in Inheritance, Twenty, SC Poetry Fellows, Tar River Poetry, Gargoyle, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Society of SC Yearbook, CONTENTS Magazine, The State Newspaper, and Charleston Post and Courier.
Kris McGuire, Spartanburg - Artist Fellow in Literary Arts, Prose - McGuire is a 1992 Graduate of Clemson University. She graduated from Daniel High School in Central, SC and attended the SC Governor's School for the Arts. She currently works with Ben Wofford Books at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.
Maxine Miller Warshauer, Columbia - Artist Fellow in Performing Arts, Music Composition - Warshauer's music is described as "spiritually ecstatic," "a beautifully-felt...representation of (the) mystical creative process," which reflects her personal spiritual journey. A graduate of Harvard, New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of South Carolina, she studied privately with Mario Davidovsky and Jacob Druckman. Warshauer has received awards from ASCAP, the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission which named her Artist Fellow in Music in 1994. Commissioned by Paula Robison, Richard Nunemaker, Daniel Heifetz, Dayton Philharmonic, South Carolina Philharmonic, Zamir Chorale, Cantors Assembly, and others, Warshauer's music is published by Oxford, MMB, World Music Press, and Kol Meira Publications. Recordings include Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina and Spirals of Light (Kol Meira), Bati l'Gani (I entered my Garden) on Robison's Places of the Spirit (Pucker Gallery), and Revelation on Robert Black Conducts (MMC).
David Ross Puls, Charleston - Artist Fellow, Visual Arts, Crafts - Puls earned a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he also did his undergraduate work. He was named SC Arts Commission Craft Fellow Alternate in 2005. Grants and awards include the Coastal Community Foundation of SC's Expansion Arts Grant in 2004; he was a finalist in the 1997 Niche Student Awards Competition by Niche Magazine. He received the Wilhelm and Jane Bodine Fellowship for 1995-96. Puls is the sole proprietor of Dconstructions design and construction in Charleston, SC.
Mana D.C. Hewitt, Columbia - Artist Fellow, Visual Arts - Hewitt earned a Master of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of SC in Columbia. She is currently the Gallery Director and an instructor in USC's Department of Art. Exhibitions include Shines, Nina Liu Gallery, Charleston, SC (2005); Massur Museum of Art National, Monroe, LA (2005); TRIENNIAL, SC State Museum, Columbia, SC (2004); CUP Invitational, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (2004); Solo exhibition, USCB Performing Arts Center, Beaufort, SC (2004); Solo exhibition, Milliken Art Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, SC (2004) SECAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL (2004); Figures, Nina Liu Gallery, Charleston, SC (2004); ACCS Spotlight 2004, TAMARACK, Beckley, WV; SC Birds Invitational, Etheridge Arts Center, Aiken, SC (2004).
The next round of Artist Fellowships (for 2007) will select fellows in prose, poetry, acting, directing, visual arts and craft. The deadline for applying is Oct. 1, 2005.
For an application and guidelines, as well
as more information about the Artist Fellowship program and the
SC Arts Commission, visit the agency's website at (www.SouthCarolinaArts.com)
or call 803/734-8696.
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