Artist Trust supported 21 artists with the 2003 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowships. Each recipient received an unrestricted cash award of $6,000. The award recognizes an artist’s creative excellence and accomplishment, professional achievement and continuing dedication to their artistic discipline. In 2003, the Fellowship Program received a total of 416 applications from artists working in Craft, Media, Music and Literature.

The information included in each grant recipient profile below is based on each recipient’s application materials submitted at the time of application. 

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CRAFT

Catherine Grisez (Seattle, King County) is a metalsmith living in Seattle. She received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in Jewelry and Light Metals. She has exhibited at William Traver Gallery, Yaw Gallery, Salem Art Association, Gallery Marzee (Holland), Contemporary Crafts Gallery (Portland, OR) and SOFA (Sculptural Object, Functional Art Exhibition 2000 and 2002) among other venues. Grisez was chosen for Seattle Collects (2002), a Seattle Arts Commission Purchase Grant. Additionally, her work has been featured in both Metalsmith magazine and American Craft. She has received an Artist Trust GAP award (2000) and was a Poncho Artist-In-Residence at Pratt Fine Arts Center in 2000.

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Kimberly Kelzer (Freeland, Island County) received her M.F.A. in Wood/Furniture Design from Southeastern Massachusetts University. Her sculpture has been exhibited across the country, including The Fuller Museum (Boston), John Elder Gallery (New York), Wexler Gallery (Philadelphia), and the American Craft Museum. Kelzer’s awards include a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship and a merit scholarship and residency to attend the prestigious Haystack Craft School. Additionally, Kelzer was selected by the Arts Commission of San Francisco as part of the Market Street Arts in Transit Program (1992). Kelzer has been invited to be an instructor of wood sculpture and furniture design at many highly regarded institutions across the country, including Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts (TN), Oregon College of Arts & Craft, and Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been featured in such publications as Woodwork Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and American Craft. www.kimkelzer.com.

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Sherry Markovitz (Seattle, King County) received her M.F.A. in 1975 from the University of Washington. The fine craft and imagination of Markovitz’s beaded sculptures has been exhibited widely, including a recent solo show, Devotions, at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle. Past exhibitions include showings at Seattle ArtMuseum, National Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery and Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center among others. Her work is included in the collections of the American Craft Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and The Corning Museum of Glass among others. Her awards include grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the Washington State Arts Commission. Markovitz was a founding member of Artist Trust, having been among the charter members to join in 1986.

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Charlotte Meyer (Seattle, King County) works in glass and metal, creating both installation and object-based work. Originally from England, Meyer has lived in the U.S. for nine years. Meyer’s work has been exhibited at William Traver Gallery, John Jenkins Gallery (San Francisco), Facere Gallery, and Center on Contemporary Art (Seattle) among other venues. Articles on her work have appeared in American Craft, Metalsmith, and New Glass. Her work is in the permanent collections of the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and in several private collections. She was recently an artist-in-residence at the Kohler Arts Center. In addition, Charlotte has twice received an Artist Trust GAP award (1997, 2002), a Pilchuck Full Scholarship, and the Simpson Award for Jewelry (Northwest Designer Craftsmen 1997) among other awards. Her next solo exhibition, Veil, is slated for 2005 at the Traver Gallery.

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Maria Phillips (Seattle, King County) is a metalsmith living in Seattle. She received her M.F.A. in 1997 from the University of Washington. She has exhibited at Facere Gallery (Seattle), SOFA (Chicago), the Smithsonian Museum, and Susan Cummins Gallery among other venues. Maria was the 2001 recipient of the American Craft Emerging Artist Grant and received second place in the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founders Prize from the Society of Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA. Additionally, Phillips received a Merit Award at the Craftman’s Choice Smithsonian Craft Show (2002), was a Poncho Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Fine Arts (1999) and won ‘Best of Show’ at Glass + Metal: 4th International Enamel Exhibition (1999) and at San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum (1997). Maria has recently lectured about her work at the State University of New York, New Paltz, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and was recently a visiting instructor at 92nd Street Y (New York City) and Visiting Professor at the University of Washington. In addition, Maria was a recent artist-in-residence at Penland School of Crafts and the Arts/Industry program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

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MEDIA

Dave Hanagan (Seattle, King County) is a filmmaker living in Seattle. He studied graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before moving to Seattle, where he has been working as an internationally recognized media producer for the past six years. In 1999, Dave produced independent coverage of Seattle's WTO protests that was syndicated with an ABC news program. In 2000, he produced a documentary of the Slam Poetry movement for the Seattle PBS station, KCTS, and worked as cinematographer for Borrowing Time (Webster Crowell, director). In 2001, with collaborator and abstract painter Donnabelle Casis, he co-created reverb, a video installation for the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery and 911 Media Arts Center. With a King County Arts Commission Special Projects Award, Hanagan directed the short film Jack Strange, Literary Hero. Currently, Dave works as the Studio Director for Northwest Film Forum, Washington State’s largest filmmakers’ collective, and continues to create short films, including his most recent Circadia Sees the Moon.

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Danielle Morgan (Bellingham, Whatcom County) has been producing her own super 8 films for the past four years. Her films have been shown in the Flicker Festival, the Attack of the Fifty foot Reels, Whatcom Film Association’s ‘Projections’ series, and many theatrical productions at the Idiom Theater and the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Her short film, Les Nanas, was recently accepted by the Northwest Film and Video Festival in Portland, Oregon and was chosen as the CINE-X Showcase’s Best Regional Film at the Olympia Film Festival. Danielle has been hosting super 8 film festivals in Bellingham for several years and has toured her films all over the US. She is now the events coordinator at Idiom Theater where she just organized a short film festival of works inspired by Edward Gorey. She has self-released a DVD featuring six of her short films and a second one is in the works.

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MUSIC

William Berry (Spokane, Spokane Co.) + is founder and music director of Clarion, a 13-member brass choir, which has been performing since 1992. In 2000, Clarion recorded a compact disc entirely comprised of Berry’s Christmas and holiday arrangements, entitled Nutcracker Suite Dreams. Additionally, Berry has recently released Angels, a large-scale work for chorus, brass, percussion, and organ. Berry’s work has been commissioned and/or performed by many organizations, including Canadian Brass, Spokane Symphony, Gonzaga University Wind Ensemble, Eastern Washington University Trumpet Ensemble, New York Philharmonic (with the Canadian Brass), Philadelphia Orchestra (with the Canadian Brass), and Whitworth College Symphony.

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Michael Bisio (Seattle, King County) is a composer and bassist. His work has spanned many years and different kinds of projects, from the Charles Gayle Trio to Running Man, a chamber-jazz opera by Diedre Murray. He has recorded as a bandleader for many of the top labels in modern improvised music, including Omnitone, Cadence, Music and Arts, Nine Winds, and Meniscus. His recording, Ours, was chosen as a Critic’s Choice in Cadence magazine where a review commented that "his playing appears to be produced by sorcery." Bisio has previously received two Artist Trust GAP awards (1995, 1998) and he has been the recipient of grants and awards from Jack Straw Productions, King County’s Cultural Development Authority, Washington State Arts Commission’s Artist-in-Residence Program, and, just this year, a City Artists Award from the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

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Robin Holcomb (Seattle, King County) is a composer, pianist and singer. She has performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia and in Hong Kong, as a solo artist and leader of various ensembles. She is co-founder and director of The New York Composers Orchestra. Her most recent Nonesuch recordings are The Big Time (2002), and Little Three (1996). She has composed music for major works by the Bebe Miller Dance Company (NYC), Joe Goode Performance Group (San Francisco) and Paul Taylor Dance Company (NYC). She has composed music for PBS documentaries, dramatic films and theatrical productions, including Angels at the Four Corners, an original work for musical theatre. Holcomb and theatre artist/director Nikki Appino are currently collaborating on O, Say a Sunset, a staged song cycle inspired by the writing of Rachel Carson, which premiered at the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis) in September 2003 and showed at On the Boards (Seattle) in October, 2003. Her awards include grants from the Allen Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as a Seattle Arts Commission Fellowship and an Artist Trust GAP award in 2000.

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Ela Lamblin+ (Seattle, King County) creates kinetic-musical sculptures. He is the co-founder of Lelavision, a professional touring and teaching company combining kinetic-musical-sculpture and dance. He has received awards from King County Cultural Development Authority, including the Special Projects Grant (2000, 2002), Artist Trust (GAP grants in 1996, 1999, and 2001), and Jack Straw Foundation (1995-96), among others. He was selected as a Washington State Arts Commission Rural Resident in 1998-2000. Recordings include Tone Pond, Deeper Still and Raga to the River. Lamblin has toured internationally and performed at such venues as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, On the Boards, The New Genre Festival (Tulsa, OK) and Teatro Della Tosse (Genoa, Italy). www.lelavision.com

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LITERATURE

Jennifer Davis+ (Spokane, Spokane County) is the author of Her Kind of Want, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. She is the recipient of the Prague Summer Seminars Fellowship in Fiction from the Associated Writing Programs. Her stories have been published in such literary journals as the Apalachee Review, Greensboro Review, Hayden's Ferry Review and Crab Orchard Review and forthcoming in McSweeney’s. Originally from Alabama, where she received her M.F.A. from the University of Alabama, Jennifer joined the faculty at Eastern Washington University in the fall of 2002, where she teaches and serves as the Director of Willow Springs, a literary journal associated with the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. _______________________________________________________________

Heather Doran Barbieri (Seattle, King County) writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in So to Speak, an anthology published by George Mason University, and Explorations 2000, a publication of the University of Alaska Southeast. Her work has also appeared in such literary publications as Crab Creek Review, Leftbank, and Poetry Seattle. Doran Barbieri has received a number of awards for her writing, including the James W. Hall Fiction Prize, the Ian St. James International Short Fiction Award, an award from the Seattle Arts Commission, and the Waller Literature Award. She lives in Seattle with her husband and three children. www.heatherbarbieri.com

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Mary Potter Engel (Shoreline, King County) received her Ph.D. in theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and, for many years taught historical, constructive, and feminist theology at Christian seminars across the country. She is the author of John Calvin’s Perspectival Anthropology as well as numerous articles on feminist theology and sexual and domestic violence. After completing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, she began publishing fiction. Her story ‘Let Them Big Animals Come Back’ won first prize in the 2000 Southern Women’s Writers Conference contest for emerging writers. Her debut novel, A Woman of Salt, was published in 2001. Strangers and Sojourners, her collection of linked stories from the Low Country of South Carolina, will be released in Spring 2004. Currently a resident of Shoreline, Engel teaches Jewish history and theology at Limmud NW, a community program of Adult Jewish Studies in the greater Seattle area, and conducts writing workshops in the area.

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Charlene Finn (Seattle, King County) is a Washington native, born and raised in Ellensburg. She spent much of her childhood on family fruit ranches in Buena, Zilla, and Wapato, WA. Her experience as a harvest worker in the 1970s brought her into contact with Chicano leader and social activist Caesar Chaves in Delano, CA experience in her first novel manuscript Uneven Ground, set in Yakima’s Lower Valley. Finn has a B.S. in Nursing and worked as a nurse for years. She received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. Her work has recently appeared in Ellipsis, and her prose is incorporated into a public art project she created with visual artist Pam Beyette at the Issaquah Public Library. Finn has received a scholarship to attend the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and attended Hedgebrook as an artist-in-residence. Charlene lives in Seattle with her husband and two teenage children.

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Kathleen Flenniken (Seattle, King County) teaches poetry through Seattle Arts & Lecture’s Writers-in-the-School program and the Washington State Arts Commission. Flenniken is also an editor with Floating Bridge Press. Her poems have appeared in many local and national literary magazines, including forthcoming issues of The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, Atlanta Review and Poetry among other publications. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2002, Flenniken was selected for the Jack Straw ‘Writers Program’ and also received an Artist Trust GAP grant to work on her first manuscript, Graphology. Flenniken lives in Seattle with her husband and three children.

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Christine Hemp (Port Townsend, Jefferson County) lives in Port Townsend and writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Drunken Boat and Boston Review among other publications. She received her M.A. in English from Middlebury College. Hemp has been appointed writer-in-residence to numerous programs, including Willamette University, Mt. Rainier National Park, and she recently completed a residency at Haystack School of Crafts where she worked with ceramicist Eddie Dominguez on a collaborative project. Among other awards, Hemp has received a Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and the University of Alaska Southeast’s Explorations Prize. www.christinehemp.com

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Christopher Howell (Spokane, Spokane County) was born in Portland, Oregon and attended Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. He was a Navy journalist during the Vietnam War and afterward earned graduate degrees from Portland State University and the University of Massachusetts. He is author of seven collections of poems, including, most recently Memory And Heaven (1997) and Just Waking (2003). He has received grant awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He is also a recipient of the Washington State Governor's Award for his collection Sea Change (1986). His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals, including Harper's, Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Gettysburg Review. Since 1975, he has been director and principal editor for Lynx House Press, and is also director of the university press at Eastern Washington University where he is a faculty member of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. He lives in Spokane with his wife Barbara and his son Evan.

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Susan Rich (Seattle, King County) is the author of The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World, winner of the PEN West Award and the Peace Corps Writers Award. Her poems have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, DoubleTake, Prism International, Seattle Review, and Witness. She has worked as a staff person for Amnesty International, an electoral supervisor in Bosnia, and a human rights activist in Gaza. Her awards include a Fulbright Fellowship to South Africa, the Sojourner Journal Poetry Prize, and the Rella Lossy Award from San Francisco State Poetry Center. She has been granted residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), Centrum, Hedgebrook, and the Blue Mountain Center. She lives in Seattle and teaches at Highline Community College.

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David Shields+ (Seattle, King County) is the author of seven books, including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season and, most recently, Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader. Shields has written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. He has received two NEA awards in fiction, two PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, an Ingram-Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington. Since 1996, he has also been a member of the faculty in Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA program for writers, in Asheville, North Carolina. www.davidshields.com

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Gregory Spatz+ (Spokane, Spokane County) received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Previously, he taught fiction at the University of Iowa and the University of Memphis. Spatz’s first novel, No One But Us, was published by Algonquin Books (1995). Stories from his recent collection, Wonderful Tricks, were included in Best American Short Stories: 100 Distinguished Stories of the Year (1994 and 1997). Spatz is the recipient of fellowships from the Michener-Copernicus Society of America (1996) and Breadloaf (1996), as well as a GAP award from Artist Trust (1999). He was a finalist for the 2000 Flannery O'Connor Award in short fiction, winner of the 2000 Mid-List Press First Series Award in short fiction, and recipient of a 2003 Washington State Book Award for Wonderful Tricks. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train Stories, The Iowa Review, Epoch, Indiana Review, The Journal, Shenandoah, and The New England Review, among others.

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+These awards are provided through generous funding from the Washington State Arts Commission

Statistics for the 2003 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship

Discipline             # of Applicants            # of Recipients

Literature                     219                             10
Craft                             92                              5
Music                            63                              4
Media                            42                              2

Location                # of Applicants

King County                 261
Western                      106 excluding King County
Eastern                         34
Central                         15

A total of 416 artists in Washington State applied this year. 21 artists were awarded Fellowships.