Emerging Artist Award: Literature

“I enjoyed “Foundation On Parade.”  I bought Great Courses on writing,  paid for Senior College, subscribed to magazines, attended poetry festivals, donated to MPBN, bought a new computer. I  published a book of my poems, “Boulders, Birch and Wood Smoke – A Maine Melody.” It’s selling! I plan to attend workshops, might even skip out on part of a Maine winter to do so. I’m in two writing groups, a storytelling group, and I’m working on another book.  It’s been a “productive and  gratifying” year, a life changing year. The Emerging Artist Award enabled me to do things I couldn’t afford. Your willingness to invest in a late bloomer has given me a new perspective on life. I am truly grateful for the for the  generosity and confidence of the Saint Botolph Club Foundation.”

“I had just finished my second MFA in Fiction at Boston University, and didn’t yet have my Visiting Professor position at the University of Hong Kong’s MFA program, and so the $1,500 grant came as a great and surprising windfall. It allowed me to get through that summer after graduating, knowing that I’d have the funds to support myself, at least for an extra month or so, as I continued to work on my novel, WHAT IS VISIBLE. And so huge thanks and gratitude to the Foundation for continuing to provide such grants to emerging artists. You really help, where it counts!”

2012 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Hannah Verlin, Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture

Love Letters

2012
Tempera paint, text from the letters of the 19th century English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett (eventually to be Elizabeth Barrett Browning).
5 sites.

2011 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Andy Rosen, Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture

King
2012
28 x 12 x 12 inches, articulated wood, paint, nuts and bolts.

Emerging Artist Award: Literature
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

“The St. Botolph Emerging Artist Grant gave a sense of authentication to my first efforts at writing fiction. Making art seemed possibly unreal, a kind of dream, an affectation, even, for a good while. Then, suddenly, there were other, thoughtful, literary, discerning people – readers! – who had looked at some of my stuff and liked it, found worth in it, felt it should be recognized and even abetted. The grant was one of the very first signs from the outside world that the stakes were real and that I should, as it were, double down and really get to it. It was an incredibly empowering moment at a pivotal point in my life as a writer.”