It’s that time of year again, when The San Francisco Foundation puts a call out to Bay Area art students to apply to Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards. Every year the Foundation invites emerging artists from a select pool of art schools to compete for this prestigious award, selecting 10 to 20 students, which [...]
(SAN FRANCISCO) – March 12, 2013 – The San Francisco Foundation announced today that Penelope Umbrico is the winner of the 2012 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, an annual award given to an emerging artist who exhibits professional accomplishment, serious artistic commitment and need in the field of creative photography. The prestigious award, established by the [...]
At the reception and reading for the 2012 Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum Literary Awards, awardee Will Boast exclaimed “$2,000 is so great!” Two-thousand dollars is the cash amount that comes with the literary awards. In the foundation world, where five and six-figure grants and awards circulate freely, $2,000 is not considered a large award. But [...]
Friday, October 5, 2012 in The Post News Group, “SF Foundation honors community leaders,” reports on the recent event hosted by The San Francisco Foundation on October 2 celebrating CLA awardees Rita Semel and Brenda Way. TSFF also presented $7,000 awards to 10 Koshland Young Leaders.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 on broadwayworld.com, “The Hundred Flowers Project,” announces The Hundred Flowers Project wins the 2012 Rella Lossa Playwrights Award, administered by The San Francisco Foundation.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 in 7X7 SF, “Test Your Balance at SOMArts’ “Frontrunners” Exhibit” discusses that The San Francisco Foundation offers a series of monetary awards to up-and-coming local artists. The 23 involved in this show at SOMArts are all winners of this year’s Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship, which awards $3,500 to MFA graduate students for [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Date Lines: News from the Bay Area Arts Scene” reports The San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts has announced the 12 Bay Area arts organizations win $250,000 in grants from the National Arts Marketing Project Awards.
2009 Joseph Henry Jackson Award – Youmna Chlala of San Francisco, CA 2009 James Duval Phelan Award – Edan Lepucki of Los Angeles, CA 2009 Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction – Page McBee of Oakland, CA (SAN FRANCISCO) – October 21, 2009 – The distinguished Joseph Henry Jackson, James Duval Phelan, and Mary Tanenbaum Nonfiction [...]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 in the SF Examiner, “‘American Idols’ of opera, SFO’s Heidi Melton and Leah Crocetto, win big bucks $75,000,” profiles Heidi Melton and Leah Crocetto. Crocetto recently was awarded the Shenson Performing Arts Fellowship from The San Francisco Foundation.
Monday, Feb. 16, 2009 in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Dollars for local documentarians,” announces The San Francisco Foundation has awarded its new Bay Area Documentary Fund to five filmmakers.