FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

Kala is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Fellowship awards

The Kala Fellowship Award supports artists in completing specific projects that can benefit from Kala's specialized programs. Annually, Fellowships are given to nine artists. The award provides each artist with up to six months studio access, a $3000 cash award and a culminating exhibition presented at Kala Gallery. One of the nine Kala Fellowships is awarded to an artist living in a non-metropolitan region of California and is generously funded by The James Irvine Foundation. This year's Fellowship winners represent a diverse group of artists working in combinations of photography, new media, painting, sculpture and mixed media print processes. These artists explore a variety of topical issues ranging from political, social and environmental issues to narratives of personal history and identity, and formal visual concerns involving representation, materials and process.

This year's competition was juried by Renny Pritikin, writer, curator and Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California-Davis in collaboration with Kala's Executive Director Archana Horsting; Artistic Director, Yuzo Nakano; and Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, Lauren Davies.

2011 Kala Fellowship artists

Michele Carlson
Randy Colosky
Alison OK Frost
Seth Koen
Vanessa Marsh
Sandra Ono
Francesca Pastine
Lauren Rice
Gail Wight

Honorable Mention Awards

Laurel Jessamyn Lovell
Darrin Martin
Lucy Watts
Sune Woods