Emerging Artists Grant Recipients 2013-2014 - Durham Arts Council

Emerging Artists Grant Recipients 2013-2014

Torry Bend, drama
Rachel Campbell, painting
Laura Doggett, installation
Nureena Faruqi, photography
Michael Lento, photography
Stephanie Levin, literature
George Mitchell, sculpture
Jenifer Padilla, painting
Elizabeth Paley, craft
Darren Kendrick Powers, Francis Vega, sculpture
Benjamin Reid, sculpture
Teli Shabu, music
Ann Corley Silverman, craft
Madelyn Smoak, craft
John Westmoreland, music
Leah Wilks, dance

An artist poses with a large sculpture made of wood scraps, metal rods, and other scrap material. It is the shape of a very large bean

Benjamin Reid

A man wearing a protective face shield and leather gloves uses heavy iron tongs to lift what appears to be a vase out of a metal drum

Darren Kendrick Powers

An older man laying in a hospital style bed holds a pencil and smiles at the camera. There is a rig above the bed that holds a canvas at an angle he could draw on from the bed

George Mitchell

Black and white image of a man holding a guitar standing behind a microphone

John Westmoreland

A man stands in a field and takes a photograph with a digital camera

Michael Lento

An artist draws with a pen on an open page in her sketchbook. There are books, sketches and polaroid pictures around her

Nureena Faruqi

Blurry image of a woman walking through an art studio crowded with paintings

Jenifer Padilla

An artist holds their hand inside a clay pot that is on a potter's wheel

Elizabeth Paley

An artist wearing an apron stands at a table and is lifting a block of wood out of a murky liquid

Ann Corley Silverman

A woman wearing protective goggles on her head uses pliers to adjust a piece of jewelry

Madelyn Smoak

A woman writes on a piece of paper in front of her. There is a coffee mug on the table

Stephanie Levin

A woman places a puppet inside a small wooden house structure

Torry Bend

On a dark stage with a red wash someone does a cartwheel in the foreground while two people watch in the background

Leah Wilks

A musician plays a kora in a music studio

Teli Shabu

Two people stand in front of a projected image of a figure in a landscape. They are both wearing headphone and both turn around and point at the figure in the image

Laura Doggett

An artist works on a painting of a building in an art studio

Rachel Campbell

The Emerging Artists Program is made possible by grants from The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the Anika James Foundation; the Linda A. Ironside Fund for the Arts of the Triangle Community Foundation; the Orange County Arts Commission; Chatham Arts Council; Granville Education Foundation; Person County Arts Council; the Ella Fountain Pratt Fund; the Ruth Carver Fund; the Wainwright Fund for New Works and by individual donations and gifts to the Durham Arts Council Annual Arts Fund.