Emerging Artist Award: Visual

“I was awarded St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Award in 2015. Thanks to this award, I was able to take the time to build and establish my artist website, a critical asset to my portfolio and network. The grant not only allowed me to ground my cloud identity, but financed the addition of a big quality camera for myself to record professional documentation and use as an extended creative tool in my art practice. These two assets have been critical and continue to be in my life and art.”

2015 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Anthony Bragg, Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture

Emerging Artist Award: Literature

“The Emerging Artist grant I received from the St. Botolph Club Foundation provided me with much-needed funding for a research trip, but perhaps even more importantly, it made me feel that I could and should keep going with my novel. As all writers know, writing a novel is a long and solitary slog, and it’s crucial to feel supported along the way. I couldn’t be more grateful to the St. Botolph Club Foundation for their belief in my work.”

2014 Emerging Artist Award:  Visual Arts

Nathan Miner, Nellie Taft Winner for Painting

Chimera
2014
90″ x 198″
Pencil, watercolor, gouache, airbrush and acrylic paint, with shellac and oil paint on paper with digital printing, for a curved wall.

2014 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Samantha Fields, Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture

Lady of leisure

2014

Approx. 13’hx10’wx6’d, recovered afghans, beads, acrylic yarn, fabric, stretcher frames, sequins.

2013 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Kelly Goff, Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture

Crates
2014
Alaskan timber harvested and processed by hand at its origin.

2013 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Paul Endres, Jr., Nellie Taft Award for Painting

Hail Ocampo, 2014. Oil on panel, 36 × 36 in (91.4 × 91.4 cm)

 Emerging Artist Award: Music

“The SBCF Emerging Artist grant arrived at a time when I needed it most. Within a precarious window between completing a degree and establishing meaningful and sustaining work, it was like a friend reaching out to provide a hand. Thanks to my award, I was able to purchase equipment that has been vital in developing my voice as a cellist, helping me take full advantage of everyone opportunity that comes my way. I could not be more grateful!!”

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.”