Art Awards Archive

Koshland Program Arts and Culture Mini-Grants

To read more about the Koshland Program Arts and Culture Mini-Grants, visit the Arts & Culture Grants & Awards page.

2007 Awardees
Awardees were picked from the following Koshland neighborhoods: West and South Berkeley, Bayview in San Francisco, Monument Corridor in Concord, and the City of Richmond.

Bayview/Anna E. Waden Branch Library
Contra Costa Child Care Council
Mt. Diablo Unified School District
Berkeley Youth Alternatives
Whitney Young Child Development Center
Grace Lutheran Church
Lao Senior Association, Inc
Danse Lumiere
4 Corners Neighborhood Action Team
Youth Spirit ArtWorks (YaYa California)
Terrain, A Dance and Performance Collective
Church Without Walls
Casa de Esperanza

2006 Awardees
Awardees were picked from the following Koshland neighborhoods: Bayview in San Francisco, Monument Corridor in Concord, the City of Richmond, and Canal of San Rafael.

ArtsChange
Asian Advocacy Project
Concord Community Economic Development Organization
Black Coalition on AIDS Inc.
Rubicon Programs, Inc.
Crossroads Charitable Foundation
United Council of Human Services
Canal Welcome Center
St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church
Bayview/Anna E. Waden Branch Library
Quesada Gardens Initiative
United House of Prayer for All People
Rainbow Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Pickleweed Park Community Center
Bayview/Anna E. Waden Branch Library
Monument Community Partnership

2005 Awardees
Awardees were picked from the following Koshland neighborhoods: Monument Corridor in Concord, the City of Richmond, Canal of San Rafael, and South of Market in San Francisco.

Opportunity West
DrawBridge
Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
ArtSpan
Gene Friend Recreation Center
South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN)
Lao Senior Association, Inc
Rubicon Programs, Inc.
Richmond Art Center
Filipino American Development Foundation
Concord Community Economic Development Organization
Monument Community Partnership
ArtsChange
Maya Language Preservation Project
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Kulintang Arts, Inc.
Marin County Grassroots Leadership Network
Canal Welcome Center
Cambridge Elementary School
Meadow Homes Neighborhood Action Team
Senior Action Team
4 Corners Neighborhood Action Team

2004 Awardees
Awardees were picked from the following Koshland neighborhoods: the City of Richmond, Canal of San Rafael, and South of Market in San Francisco.

ArtSpan
People for Children's Health and Environmental Justice
South of Market Child Care, Inc.
Parent Services Project
Lao Senior Association, Inc
South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN)
ArtsChange
Rubicon Programs, Inc.
National Institute of Art and Disabilities
Asian Pacific Psychological Services
Vietnamese-American Friendship Group in San Rafael
Latino Film Festival of San Francisco Bay Area
Sixth Street Photography Workshop
Richmond Art Center
Filipino American Development Foundation
Marin Friends of Women
Grace Lutheran Church
Kearny Street Workshop
Gene Friend Recreation Center
Asian Advocacy Project
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Kulintang Arts, Inc.

FAITHS Arts and Culture Mini-Grants

To read more about the FAITHS Arts Mini-Grants, visit the Arts & Culture Grants & Awards page.

2007 Awardees
Marin Interfaith Homeless Chaplaincy, $3,000
Raan Kan Kmhmu Cultural & Educational Center, $3,000
Young Aspirations, Young Artists (YaYa California), $3,000
Resurrection Lutheran Church, $3,000
East Oakland Youth Development Center, $3,000
Grace Lutheran Church, $3,000
Fruitvale Tutoring, $3,000
Timbuktu Educational Foundation, $3,000
Shaolin Buddhist Temple and Education Foundation, $2,500
St. Stephen's Church, $2,500
Infinity Productions, $2,500
Christ Episcopal Church Sei Ko Kai, $2,000
Catholic Charities CYO, $1,500

2006 Awardees
Grace Lutheran Church, $2,500.00
High Street Presbyterian Church, $2,500.00
Manos Unidas Community Development Center, $2,500.00
Multicultural Institute, $2,500.00
The African Immigrants' Social and Cultural Services (AISCS), $2,500.00
Wright Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, $2,500.00
Allen Temple Baptist Church, $2,000.00
American Indian Child Resource Center, $2,000.00
Asian Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership, $1,000.00
Asociacion Mayab, $1,500.00
Harbor House, $2,000.00
Community Learning Center at St. James, $1,000.00
St. Anthony Foundation, $1,400.00
Temple United Methodist, $1,400.00
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, $1,500.00
Catholic Charities CYO, $1,000.00
Infinity Gospel Ministries, $2,000.00
Congregation Sherith Israel, $1,000.00
Good Samaritans of the East Bay, $1,500.00
Trinity Baptist Church, $1,000.00

Fund for Artists

Fund for Artists Arts Teacher Fellowships

To read more about the Fund For Artists Arts Teacher Fellowships, visit the Fund for Artists page.

2008 Awardees
Kimberley Noel D’Adamo-Muanga (Berkeley H.S. International Baccalaureate Program) to study Art and Ecology at the Sitka Center in Oregon.
Heidi Guibord (Leadership High School) will travel to Accra, Ghana and study fiber design and beading techniques with The Cross Cultural Collaborative.
Elahe Shahideh (John O'Connell High School) to take a three-week landscape painting intensive at the Florence Academy of Arts in Italy.

2007 Awardees
Mary Estes (Ida B. Wells High School) to attend the summer art program in painting with master artists at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado.
Dan Kryston (San Francisco High School of the Arts) to broaden his theatre studies by attending at the Malta Festival in Warsaw, Poland, as both a participant and a contributor.

2006 Awardees
Maria Teresa Rode (Lowell High School) to travel to Jiangxi, China to work within the porcelain industry facilities to complete a body of work, and to engage with local and international artists.
Ellen Koivisto (San Francisco High School of the Arts) to study design, directing and play analysis in a summer intensive with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at The Ashland Center in Ashland, Oregon.

Fund for Artists Matching Commissions

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2008 Awardees
Robert Henry Johnson / African-American Shakespeare Company
Lily Cai / Chinese Cultural Productions
Rhodessa Jones / Cultural Odyssey
Josef Norris / Kid Serve Youth Murals
Sara Shelton Mann / Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC)
Juba Kalamaka, Katastrophe, Robert Karimi, Sean Dorsey, and Rhodessa Jones / Queer Cultural Center
Guillermo Gomez Pena & Pocha Nostra / SF Camerawork
Fred Frith, Patrice Scanlon / SF Electronic Music Festival
Octavio Solis and Larry Reed / ShadowLight Productions
Marcus Gardley / Traveling Jewish Theatre
Edwardo Madril / World Arts West
Chinaka Hodge / Youth Speaks

2007 Awardees
Chitresh Das / Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
Eva Tam / Door Dog Music Productions
Taraneh Hemami / Intersection for the Arts
Donna Ozawa, Bob Hsiang, and Christine Wong Yap / Kearny Street Workshop
Alan Chan, Eric Myers, Dawei Wang, and Bik Lee / Melody of China
Patrick Makuakane / Na Lei Hulu I Ka Weku Hula Halau
Julio Cesar Morales / New Langton Arts
Gyan Riley / Paul Dresher Ensemble/Musical Traditions
Rober Moses / Robert Moses' Kin
Meklit Hadero, Todd Brown, Sameer Gupta, Gabriel Teodros, and Prasant Radhakrishnan / Red Poppy Art House

Fund for Artists Award for Choreographers through World Arts West

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2008 Awardees
I Made Moja / Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Daniel Leung / Leung’s White Crane Lion and Dragon Dance Association
Mary Jo and Patricia Feeney / Murphy Irish Dancers

2007 Awardees
Mythili Kumar / Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose
Zenon Baron / Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco
Rudi Soriano / LIKHA Pilipino Folk Ensemble
Kawika Alfiche / Halau o' Keikiali'i
Kyoung Il Ong / Ong Dance Company
Nitya Venkateswaran (Soloist)
Susana Arenas / Arenas Dance Company
Zak and Naomi Diouf / Diamano Coura West African Dance Company
Jyoti Rout / Jyoti Kala Mandir College of Indian Classical Arts

Fund for Artists Award for Composers and Music Ensembles through American Composers Forum

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2008 Awardees
Kurt Erickson / Marnie Breckenridge (soprano)
Fred Firth / Galax Quartet / Karen Clark (contralto)
Jack Perla / Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band / Thomas Glenn (tenor)
Ryan Brown / Sqwonk (bass clarinet duo)

2007 Awardees
Ellen Ruth Rose / Linda Bouchard (violist)
Kurt Rohde / San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Matt Small / San Francisco Community Music Center
Nanos Operetta / Kronos Quartet
Erling Wold / John Duykers (tenor)
Richard Festinger / San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Mei-Fang Lin / Earplay

Fund for Artists Award for Visual and Media Artists through Artadia

2008 Awardees
Center for Tactical Magic
Sergio De La Torre
Chris Sollars
David Hevel
Desirée Holman
Michael Light
Trevor Paglen
Hank Willis Thomas
Catherine Wagner
Amy Wilson Faville

2007 Awardees
Adriane Colburn
Amy Franceschini
Bill Fontana
Clare Rojas
David Huffman
Enrique Chagoya
Kota Ezawa
Mads Lynnerup
Rosanna Castrillo Diaz
Shaun O’Dell

Fund for Artists Award for Playwrights and Theatre Ensembles through Theatre Bay Area

Eugenie Chan / The Cutting Ball Theater
Michael Gene Sullivan / San Francisco Mime Troupe
Chinaka Hodge / Intersection for the Arts

2007 Awardees
Peter Nachtrieb / Lobster Theater Company
Philip Kan Gotanda /  Asian American Theater Company
Octavio Solis & Campo Santo /  Intersection for the Arts
Denmo Ibrahim / Golden Thread Productions

Shenson Performing Arts Fellowships

To read more about the Shenson Performing Arts Fellowships, visit the Art Awards page.

Dancer David Harvey with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet
Actor Nicholas Pelczar with American Conservatory Theater
Opera singer Daveda Karanas with Merola Opera Program
Vocalist Eleazar Rodriguez with San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Spoken word artist Jose Vadi with Youth Speaks

2007 Awardees
Soprano Heidi Melton with the Adler Fellows Program at San Francisco Opera
Kathak dancer Charlotte Moraga with the Chitresh Das Dance Company
Dancer Sean Orza with San Francisco Ballet
Actress Amanda Sykes with ACT's Master of Fine Arts program
Sitarist Arjun Verma with the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music

James D. Phelan Art Awards

James D. Phelan Art Award in Film, Video, and Digital Media

To read more about the James D. Phelan Art Award in Film, Video, and Digital Media, visit the Art Awards page.

2008 Awardees
Veteran documentary filmmaker Emiko Omori ($10,000)
Experimental artists Patty Chang ($5,000)
Experimental artist Cauleen Smith ($5,000). 

Jurors for the award were Wendy Levy (Bay Area Video Coalition), B. Ruby Rich (UC Santa Cruz), and Lynette Gryseeles (Film Arts Foundation). 

Diana Thater
Alfonso Alvarez
Melinda Stone

James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography

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2007 Awardees
Geoffrey Ellis, San Francisco
Apollonia Morrill, Berkeley
Walt Odets, Berkeley

2007 Honorable Mentions
Rebecca Goldfarb, San Francisco
Kirk Thomson, Berkeley
Sergio De La Torre, Oakland

2005 Awardees
Sean McFarland
Arne Svenson
Amir Zaki

James D. Phelan Award in Printmaking

To read more about the James D. Phelan Award in Printmaking, visit the Art Awards page.

2007 Awardees
Diane Rosenblum Althoff
Randy Hussong
The juror for the 2007 awards was Berin Golonu, a curator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

2005 Awardees
Jesse Gottesman
Cynthia Ona Innis
Matthew Hopson-Walker
The juror for the 2005 awards was Janet Bishop, of the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art.

Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts

To read more about the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, visit the Art Awards page.

Michael Arcega, Stanford University
Elisheva Biernoff, California College of the Arts
Tom Borden, San Francisco Art Institute
Modesto Covarrubias, Mills College
Eilish Cullen, San Francisco State University
April Grayson, San Francisco Art Institute
Claire Jackel, San Francisco Art Institute
Anthony Marcellini, California College of the Arts
Robert Minervini, San Francisco Art Institute
Robert Moya, San Francisco Art Institute
Michael Namkung, San Francisco State University
Moses Nornberg, California College of the Arts
Daniel Ochoa, Academy of Art University
S Patricia Patterson, San Francisco Art Institute
Hilary Pecis, California College of the Arts
Jeff  Ray, San Francisco State University
Gina Tuzzi, Mills College
Jina Valentine, Stanford University
Annie Vought, Mills College
Sara Wanie, San Francisco Art Institute
Andrew Witrak, Mills College
Imin Yeh, California College of the Arts
David Yun, San Francisco Art Institute

2007 Awardees
Adrianne Watson, California College of the Arts
Ann Kim, Mills University
Brent Vest, San Francisco Art Institute
Cameron Hockenson, San Francisco Art Institute
Danny Keith, California College of the Arts
Ethan Worden, Mills University
Greg Gandy, Academy of Art University
Ian Everard, San Francisco State University
Jason Jakaitis, San Francisco State University
Jenna North, San Francisco Art Institute
Jennifer Brommer, San Francisco Art Institute
Jessica Rosen, California College of the Arts
Jody Medich, San Francisco Art Institute
Lizabeth Rossof, San Francisco State University
Marci Washington, California College of the Arts
Marque Cornblatt, San Francisco State University
Matthew Bonner, San Francisco Art Institute
Matthew Jones, Stanford University
Michelle Blade, California College of the Arts
Sara Thacher, California College of the Arts
Steven Allen, San Francisco State University
Taha Belal, California College of the Arts
Trisha Grover, Mills University
Zachary Starer, San Francisco Art Institute

2006 Awardees
Eric Araujo, San Francisco Art Institute
Chris Bell, Stanford University
Brice Bischoff, San Francisco Art Institute
Robert Burden, San Francisco Art Institute
Amir Esfahani, San Francisco Art Institute
Renee Gertler, California College of the Arts
Kara Hearn, UC Berkeley
Madhu Jalli, Academy of Art University
Bessma Khalaf, California College of the Arts
Antonios Kosmadakis, San Francisco State University
Melanie Lacy Kusters, California College of the Arts
Steven Lopez, San Francisco Art Institute
Jessica Miller, California College of the Arts
Kamau Patton, Stanford University
Ryan Pierce, California College of the Arts
Susannah Prinz, San Francisco Art Institute
Jana Rumberger, San Francisco Art Institute
Anthony Ryan, San Francisco State University
Emily Silver, San Francisco Art Institute
Jamie Spinello, San Francisco Art Institute
Cyane Tornatzky, San Francisco State University
Jessica Walker, San Francisco State University
Jenifer Wofford, UC Berkeley
Christine Wong Yap, California College of the Arts
Vanessa Woods, San Francisco Art Institute
Edmund Wyss, San Francisco Art Institute 

2005 Awardees
Sarah Cain, UC Berkeley
Michele Carlson, California College of the Arts
Alika Cooper, California College of the Arts
Lori  del Mar, San Francisco Arts Institute
Ala Ebtekar, Stanford University
Ana Teresa Fernández, San Francisco Art Institute
Sharon Heitzenroder, San Francisco Art Institute
Bradley Hyppa, San Francisco State University
Krishna Khalsa, Mills College
Diane Landry, Stanford University
Brendan Lott, Stanford University
Nikolai Moderbacher, California College of the Arts
Tomonari Nishikawa, San Francisco Art Institute
Nanda Palmieri, San Francisco Arts Institute
Lacey Jane Roberts, California College of the Arts
Nadim Sabella, San Francisco Art Institute
Susan Schultz, California College of the Arts
Leslie Shows, California College of the Arts
Marina Shterenberg, San Francisco State University
Taravat Talepasand, San Francisco Art Institute
Weston Teruya, California College of the Arts
Kirsten Tradowsky, California College of the Arts
Lauren Woods, San Francisco Art Institute
Shadi Yousefian, San Francisco State University

John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award

To read more about the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, visit the Art Awards page.

Allison Marie Sexton

2006 Awardee
Doug Dubois

2005 Awardee
Greg Halpern

Literary Awards

Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award

To learn more about the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award, visit the Art Awards page.

2007 Awardee
Nathanael Malae - In recognition of his outstanding fiction manuscript, What We Are.

Karan Mahajan - In recognition of his outstanding fiction manuscript, What's a Flyover to a Family?

2005 Awardee
Tom Kealey - In recognition of his outstanding short story manuscripts, The Boots and Coyotes.

James D. Phelan Literary Award

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2007 Awardee
Tung-Hui Hu - In recognition of his outstanding poetry manuscript Greenhouses, Lighthouses.

2006 Awardee
Akemi Johnson - In recognition of her outstanding poetry manuscript Assigned to Okinawa.

Diana Marie Delgado - In recognition of her outstanding play manuscript, The Doll Age.

Tanenbaum Award in Nonfiction

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2007 Awardee
Roxanna Font - In recognition of her outstanding non-fiction manuscript The Fig Tree.

2006 Awardee
Jasmin Darznik - In  recognition of her outstanding nonfiction manuscript, Pomegranates in the Bath.

2005 Awardee
Abeer Hoque - In recognition of her outstanding nonfiction manuscript, Olive Witch: An American Dream. 

Community Leadership Award, given in the spirit of Helen Crocker Russell

To learn more about or for a greater perspective of historic Community Leadership Awards, given in the spirit of Helen Crocker Russell, visit the Art Awards page.

2007 Awardee
Alonzo King, Choreographer, Artistic Director, and Founder of Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet
Alonzo redefined classical ballet and builds community through his commitment to dance. His racially diverse company transformed the dance scene and our collective perception of dance by combining cultural traditions with classical ballet. His striking and creative performances exhilarate audiences around the world.

Michael for making symphonic music essential to the culture of the East Bay community. He is dedicated to minority access to the arts and arts education, visiting 100 schools every year. More than 20,000 public school students received hands-on music education because of Michael's leadership.

2005 Awardee
Zakarya Diouf, Founder and Director of Diamano Coura West African Dance Company
Zakarya for his vision in unifying the African cultural arts community, for serving as a mentor and educator of young artists, and for his artistic contributions to the development of African-based performing arts.

2004 Awardee
Ester Hernández, San Francisco Artist and Teaching Artist of Creativity Explored
Ester for fostering community and raising social consciousness through her groundbreaking art, for her work with Creativity Explored, and for inspiring and mentoring the next generation of artists.