who lacked such opportunities.
When he retired this year,
the school honored him by un-
veiling
The Faces o f M eade
©.
a student art project done with
the Clay Studio’s Claymobile
Outreach Program. Guided
by artist Leroy Johnson, first,
sixth and seventh graders
teamed up to create ceramic
masks for a mosaic mural com-
memorating the school’s 134-
year history.
P e o p l e & P l a c e s
F ie ld N o t e s
Excellence
The Bush Artist Program an-
nounced its 2010 fellowships
for upper Midwestern artists,
awarding $50,000 to each of 15
winners, including three in the
traditional and functional crafts
category: Dan Jerome of Bel-
court,
n d ,
an educator and ad-
vocate of Native American arts;
Debra Lyn Korluka of Stillwa-
ter, m n , a maker and scholar
of Byzantine iconography; and
Delina White of Deer River,
м N ,
a textile and mixed-media
artist in the traditional wood-
land style. To honor mature
artists, Enduring Vision Awards
of $100,000 apiece went to La-
kota collagist Arthur Amiotte,
Lao weaver Bounxou Dao-
heuang Chanthraphone and
photographer Paul Sham-
broom fbushfoundation.org').
..
The nonprofit Studio Art Quilt
Associates got a $25,000
N E A
grant to support its exhibition
“Creative Force 2010,” which
opens November 4 at the In-
ternational Quilt Festival in
Houston.
. .With a grant from
the Trust for Mutual Under-
standing, the Textile Society
of America hosts two visiting
textile scholars—Marinika
Babanazarova of the I.V.
Savitsky State Art Museum
016 american craft oct/nov 10
in Uzbekistan and Dinara
Chochunbaeva of Kyrgyzstan,
a specialist in craft develop-
ment-at its symposium “T ex-
tiles and Settlement: From
Plains Space to Cyber Space,”
Oct. 6-9 at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
.. The Soci-
ety of North American Gold-
smiths announces its new
Hoover & Strong Scholarship,
to be given annually to a gradu-
ate student designing high-
quality production jewelry
fsnagmetalsmith.org').
Kid Stuff
Art’s healing powers are at play
in the colorful, whimsical envi-
ronment designed for young
patients and their families at the
new Kosair Children’s Medical
Center in Brownsboro,
k y .
Through a partnership with the
Kentucky Museum of Art and
Craft, Louisville artists made
original works for the facility’s
public spaces, including a sculp-
ture in metal and glass by Brook
White and Bryan Holden, a
mixed-media wall installation
by Tom Pfannerstill, and a fan-
ciful steel playground fence
by Holden and Shaun Ludwick.
Kids with a connection to the
center took part as well, working
with ceramist John M cCathy
and painter Shayne Hull to cre-
ate two wall pieces.
.. As princi-
pal of the General George G.
Meade School in Philadelphia,
Frank Murphy partnered with
local arts and cultural groups to
bring arts instruction to kids
Expos
Highlights at this year’s
s o f a
Chicago expo (Nov. 5-7) in-
clude
Cavalieri and Crumb,
a new series of stained-glass
panels by Joseph Cavalieri, in-
cluding
Lap O ' Luxury f i ,
at the
UrbanGlass booth. Made dur-
ing the New York artist’s sum-
mer residency at the Museum
of Arts and Design, the works
pay homage to the legendary
cartoonist Robert Crumb, who
allowed Cavalieri to re-create
some of his iconic illustrations
in a gothic setting-such as
D & G ,
a portrait of Crumb’s
wife and muse, Aline.
.. George
Little Management is reorga-
nizing its New York Interna-
tional Gift Fair into four com-
prehensive market categories,
including one for handcrafted
Ed and M ary Scheier photo Richard M erritt © University o f New Hampshire / Claymobile photo John Carlano.
