Raymond Ghirardo (Professor, Art) & Megan Roberts (Associate Professor, TV-R) have been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the category of video arts for 2006-2007.
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115 New York Artists, Including Painters, Playwrights, and Composers, Receive Close to $1 Million in Awards From New York Foundation for the Arts
(New York, NY – May 24, 2006)New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the nation’s largest provider of funding, information and services to individual artists, announced in June the 117 New York artists who will each receive a prestigious NYFA Fellowship, an unrestricted grant in the amount of $7000.
This year’s 115 NYFA Fellows – who were chosen among over 4,000 applicants – include architects, painters, photographers, choreographers, fiction writers, screenwriters, composers, playwrights, and video artists. Fellows were selected by peer panels in each artistic discipline. Past NYFA Fellows include Spike Lee, Tony Kushner, Julie Taymor, Carroll Dunham, Oscar Hijuelos and many others. Since 1985, over 3,000 New York artists have received NYFA Fellowships.
