Profs. Betsy Boyd, Marion Winik Receive 2019 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards
May 3, 2019
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Two faculty members in the University of Baltimore's Klein Family School of Communications Design in the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences have been recognized by the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) for outstanding artistic achievements. Betsy Boyd, assistant professor and director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts program, and Marion Winik, associate professor, are each recipients of the MSAC's 2019 Individual Artist Award (IAA).
The MSAC's annual Individual Artist Award recognizes the importance of artists and their works of excellence to the cultural vibrancy of Maryland. The IAA program is administered in partnership with the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Selected from a group of 669 applicants, this year's recipients represent some of the state's leading authors, visual artists, theater performers and digital/electronic and media artists.
Each year, awards of $1,000, $3,000 or $6,000 go to artists from across Maryland who are selected by a blind, out-of-state jury on the basis of artistic merit alone. This year's awards, totaling $246,000, went to 105 artists representing the disciplines of creative nonfiction/fiction, digital/electronic arts, media arts, painting, theater solo performance, and works on paper.
Boyd is being honored for her exceptional achievement in fiction and will receive $1,000 to support further advancement in her career; Winik, who is being honored for her outstanding work in nonfiction, will receive $3,000. Both awardees will be honored, along with their fellow award recipients, during a ceremony on Saturday, June 8, at the conclusion of the first Maryland Arts Summit, which will be held at UMBC.
Learn more about Betsy Boyd and Marion Winik and the MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts.
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