GREENBURGER AWARD WINNERS, NOHL FELLOWS ANNOUNCED
According to Artinfo, the winners of the Francis J. Greenburger Awards for 2008 have been announced: Joan Jonas, Mel Kendrick, Helen Levitt, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Sturtevant. The awards honor artists who have made important contributions to contemporary art but who have not been fully recognized by the “world at large.” Each artist was chosen by an individual juror and will be awarded ten thousand dollars. This year, curator and critic Tom Healy chose Jonas, artist Brice Marden chose Kendrick, collectors Arthur and Carol Goldberg chose Levitt, dealer Rhona Hoffman chose Mangold, and art critic Kim Levin chose Sturtevant. The awards were created in 1986 by Francis J. Greenburger, a New York real estate developer and the founder and chairman of Omi International Arts Center.
In other news, seven recipients of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists have been selected from a field of 132 applicants in the sixth annual competition in Milwaukee. Brent Budsberg and Shana McCaw (a collaborative team), Xav Leplae, and Iverson White were chosen in the established-artist category and will each receive a fifteen-thousand-dollar fellowship. Tate Bunker, Bobby Ciraldo, and Andrew Swant (applying as Fortress Productions), Frankie Latina, and Barbara Miner will receive emerging artist fellowships of five thousand dollars each. In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows will participate in an exhibition in the autumn of 2009. An exhibition catalogue will also be published and disseminated nationally. The panel of jurors included Valerie J. Mercer, the first curator of African-American art and head of the General Motors Center for African-American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts; Laurel Reuter, director and chief curator of the North Dakota Museum of Art; and Eva González-Sancho, director of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain—Région Bourgogne in Dijon, France.
