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Emerging Artists Grant Recipients 2015-2016

  • Belle Boggs, Literature
  • Ashley Brooke Heuts, Craft
  • Shelia Huggins, Photography
  • Anna Kipervaser, Film
  • Nsenga Knight, Painting
  • Aaron Kutnick, Installation
  • Karen Novy, Music
  • Chris Ogden, Photography
  • Steve Oliva, Prints
  • Adebukola Oni, Drama
  • McDaniel Roberts, Dance
  • Monica Sanchez, Literature
  • Al Strong, Music
  • William Paul Thomas, Film
  • Allison Tierney, Painting
  • Justin Tornow, Dance
A woman looks knowingly at the camera with her chin resting on her hand. There is a small child sitting next to her smiling and a stack of paper in front of her

Belle Boggs

A woman sits and smiles at camera. She has a quilt in front of her and holds a piece of thread

Ashley Brooke Heuts

A woman hangs a print of a photograph on a wall

Shelia Huggins

An artist uses photography processing equipment

Anna Kipervaser

A woman wearing a headscarf smiles at the camera. There are black and white abstract images behind her

Nsenga Knight

A man wearing a hat adjusts a digital camera on a tripod

Aaron Kutnick

A musician plays a piano in a music studio

Karen Novy

A man stands in front of a gallery wall with images of icebergs with arms folded in front of him

Chris Ogden

A man stands in a yard holding screen printing equipment. There is a shed behind him

Steve Oliva

Image of a Black woman holding up a frame in front of her face. A projection of a mixture of very bright colors is projected onto her

Adebukola Oni

A man performs a jubilant traditional African dance

Mcdaniel Roberts

A musician in a suit and tie looks into the camera and holds a trumpet

Al Strong

A dancer holds a sort of bridge pose in a dance studio, looking back and upside down

Justin Tornow

A woman sits in a wingback chair with a pen and notebook smiling at the camera

Monica Sanchez

An artist crouches in front of a large portrait of a Black man and works on it with a small paintbrush

William Paul Thomas

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.