St. Botolph Club Foundation
St. Botolph Club Foundation
Emerging Artists Award Recipients
We have given out more than 275 grants to emerging artists. Here are quotes from some of our past recipients. Learn more about the Emerging Artist award.
C.D. Collins and Rockabetty
“This grant was truly a seed grant in the sense that it has continued to grow in wonderful and unexpected directions. I used the funds to produce a compact disc to archive the poetry and stories I perform to musical accompaniment. The completed project exceeded my expectations and subsequently won Best Spoken-Word CD at the Boston Poetry Awards in the year 2000.”
“I used the grant to research composition-teaching techniques for young children and to teach a series of experimental lessons to three talented 8–9 year-old children. The results were fantastic! I have continued teaching them composition as part of our regular piano lessons.”
“The grant allowed me to take four-day mini-retreats, where I could temporarily escape family and parenting duties to focus on my writing. I found great support in the knowledge that the Foundation considered my writing worthy of funding. I have been inspired to do my best work.”
“Sustained observation frees me to see more deeply in the passages of light and color; at the same time it allows me to identify the simple notes that structure the image. This work is driven by the tension between the desire to describe subtle nuances of form and the desire to discover just how little information is required to convey the essence of structures.”
“As for many who try to carve out time to make art, my days are a regular struggle to get to a quiet, unperturbed place. The St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid award provided me with the stirring opportunity to do just that: to, in effect, excavate, enlarge and fortify a creative space. Instead of spending the bulk of my energy on student writing, freelance articles and waiting on tables, I’ve been able to turn full attention to fiction writing, more specifically, to the novel I’m revising.”
“Receiving my grant allowed me to travel for two weeks to Lithuania and Latvia. In Lithuania I took part in the National Poetry Festival. I was able to learn about current poetry work in a number of new countries and became interested in the poetic traditions of those countries as well. This creates a much wider circle of creative work and understanding. I remain immensely grateful, and I can say truthfully that my life has been changed by this experience.”
Other Emerging Artists grant recipients:
2007
Cree Bruins
Hannah Cole
Robin Mandel
Allison Newsome
Adrian Rodriguez
Nadya Volicer
Dana Mueller
Maya Sloan
Paul Yoon
Urban Waite
Igor Iwanek
Michelle Trainor
Aaron Trant
Jessi Rosinski
2006
Claire Beckett
Ethan Berry
Chris Frost
Ross Miller
Mary O'Malley
Brian Baise
Susanna Brougham
Kathleen Spencer
Melissa Wessels
Eliot Gattegno
Marisa Michelson
Klaudia Szlachta
2005
Jennifer Barber
Katherine Bell
Eleanor Brown Steele
Ian Ganassi
Ralph Sneeden
Mariliana Arvelo
Reese Inman
Chris Nau
Liz Nofziger
Mary Stuart Lang
Nina Wishnok
Sarah Bob
Curtis Hughes
Derek Jacoby
Yoko Kida
Carmen Staaf
2004
Amy Feather
Constantin Finehouse
Jorge Grossmann
Tali Morgulis
Paul Preusser
Kate Vincent
Ellen Dudley
William Giraldi
David Khoury
S. Fredrick Liss
Stephanie Saldana
Cynthia Shur
George Van Deventer
Robert Hannan
Timothy Horn
Masako Kamiya
Gabrielle Keller
Rachel Perry Welty
Marisa Privitera
Sa Schloff
Laura Steele
2003
Michelle Bova
Linda Brown
Taylor Davis
Randy Garber
Blyth Hazen
Kathy Speranza
Hilary Rao
Jonathan Fink
Julie Rold
Yael Shinar
Olette Trouve
Ellen Wilbur
Amy Feather
Michael Gardiner
Mickey Katz
Jose Lemos
Ian Linsey
Andrew List
2002
Bebe Beard
Esther Budiardjo
Catherine Carter
David Daniel
Alicia DiDonato.
Carol Dine
Carol Edelstein
Joe Dan Harper
Khalid Kodi
Meng Lang
Michael Lowenthal
Peter Lyons
Michael Norsworthy
Maryanne O'Hara
Oscar Palacio
Wendy Prellwitz
Henry Samelson
Roger Sedarat
Yukiko Sekino
Jessica Treadway
Jane Tuckerman
Kathryn Zeager
