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People & Places

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Leading Women

The Philadelphia Art Alliance,

which recently announced its

new focus on contemporary

crafts, has named Maida R. Mi-

lone as CEO. Milone practiced

law, managed for-profit organi-

zations and headed the Center

for Emerging Visual Artists,

a Philadelphia artist-services

organization.

.. Lisa Chipetine

is the fourth president of Studio

Art Quilt Associates. Chipetine,

who is a portfolio manager at

the Institute of International

Education, was

s a q a ’ s

vice

president and a member of its

board of directors. Replacing

her as V P is artist, critic and

curator Sandra Sider.

Awards and Honors

Since 2006, United States Art-

ists, the Los Angeles-based

grant-making organization, has

annually awarded 50 fellow-

ships-$50,ooo each-to artists

in eight disciplines. For 2009,

the six recipients in the craft

and traditional arts category are

Perry Eaton (Anchorage, AK),

carved Alutiiq masks; Garcia &

Mitchell (San Fidel, N M ), Aco-

ma Pueblo pottery; Beth Lo

020 american craft feb/mario

www.journal-plaza.net & www.freedowns.net

(Missoula,

m t ),

Asian-themed

ceramics and collage; Dona

Look (Algoma, Wi), sewn birch

bark baskets; Mary Shaffer

(Taos, NM), slumped glass

sculptures and installations;

andKukuli Velarde© (Phila-

delphia, PA), figural ceramics-

such as

Native Hysteric Mac-

ttarraf).

All the USA Fellows

were named in a celebration

Dec. 14 in Santa Monica.

The North Carolina Award-

the state’s highest civilian hon-

or—was presented by Gov. Bev-

erly Perdue to glass artist Mark

Peiser©, creator of

Topaze

Bow/fH,

named in the Fine Arts

category.

.. Anders Ruhwald,

artist in residence and head

of ceramics at the Cranbrook

Academy of Art in Michigan,

has received the Ole Haslund

Artist Foundation award in his

native Denmark, which recog-

nizes significant artists and

comes with a $12,000 grant.

..

Joy Umali, maker of

Ctiarredfj)

is the winner of the eleventh

annual Ronald & Anita Wor-

nick Award, a scholarship given

to talented students in wood

arts at the California College of

the Arts. She received $6,coo.

..

Will Tracey is the 2009 winner

of the $25,ooojohn D. Mineck

Furniture Fellowship adminis-

tered by the Society of Arts and

Crafts, Boston. Tracey is an

adjunct instructor and studio

technician at the Rochester In-

stitute of Technology. The fel-

lowship helps young furniture

artists develop their careers.

©

Kukuli Velarde photos Doug Herren / Faught photo courtesy of artist and Lisa Cooley Gallery / Peiser photos courtesy of NC Department o f Cultural Resources.