Recent Grantees

Career Development Grants

In late October the Marin Arts Council Career Development Grant panel met to recommend 6 recipients for the first round of the 2007-08 Career Development Grant cycle. These grants, a program of the Marin Arts Council Fund For Artists, offer support to individual artists in all disciplines who need a small amount of assistance to push their artistic and career development to a new level.

New this year is the inclusion of the Wendy Gruber Career Development Grant, established by the friends and family of the late Wendy Gruber, a lauded visual artist who resided in Sausalito. This grant encourages artists to gather the necessary skills to market themselves more effectively in ways suited to their unique personalities and art. This grant is funded by the Wendy Gruber Artist Fund at the Marin Community Foundation.

• Colleen Proppé (San Anselmo) - to assist this emerging plein air painter with costs associated with creating and marketing her work. *This is a Wendy Gruber Career Development Grant.
• Lauren Bartone (San Rafael) - to assist with purchase of equipment to integrate digital imaging and image manipulation into her mixed media work.
• Karen Hampton (Woodacre) - to assist with documentation of her work in the textile series "Namesake: The Heart & Soul of Who We Are."
• Karen Gideon (Greenbrae) - to attend the Asilomar Writers Conference and the Big Sur Writing Workshop as a step towards publication of one of her five novels.
• Gerald Fleming (Lagunitas) - to assist with costs associated with attending the Associated Writers Programs conference in New York City.
• Ian Dogole (Mill Valley) - to help support a new recording project of the applicants work in collaboration with the group Hemispheres.

New Work Fellowships are awards to individual professional artists in specific disciplines who present a coherent body of work, track record in their field and who propose a project involving the creation of new work. Strength of body of work is paramount in receiving one of these awards.



2005-07 New Work Fellowships:

• Jasmin Darznik
• Robert Ernst
• Timothy Horn
• Nancy Kelly
• Judith Selby Lang
• Stacey Printz
• James Sansing
• Joseph Venegoni

Community Arts Partnership Grants are made to support projects that build a sense of excitement about the arts and involve the community in the arts. They encourage projects that build new collaborations between groups or strengthen existing ties.






2007-08 Community Arts Partnership Grants (1 round)

• 4th Street Beat/Mayflower Chorus in partnership with various senior centers
• Alternative Theater Ensemble
• Bay Area Playback Theatre
• Canal Welcome Center in partnership with Marin Photography Club
• Enriching Lives Through Music in partnership with Pickleweed Community Center
• Dominican University and Community Players
• FastForward Magazine in partnership with Marin art teachers
• Gallery Route One in partnership various Tomales Bay Library Association
• Artist Linda Samuels in partnership with The Marin French Cheese Company
• Marin Poetry Center
• Artist Maria Ramos-Chertok in partnership with the Marin City Health and Wellness Clinic.
• Mill Valley Philharmonic
• Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
• The Playwright's Lab in partnership with 142 Throckmorton Theatre
• REC Inc. in partnership with Larkspur Parks and Recreation Department
• The Dance Palace
• Urban Apache Street Dance Theater