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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.