Among the winners of fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council are three faculty members in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences: Christopher Lacy, Hank Kaminsky and Bethany Springer.
Lacy, artistic director of the Opera Theater, has been a visiting assistant professor of music since 2000. For the competition, he submitted his work “Quintet for Winds,” which will be premiered by the Lyrique Quintette at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.
Kaminsky, a sculpture instructor in the art department, was a founding member and first vice president of the Artists of Northwest Arkansas. He also helped organize the Eureka Springs Guild of Artists and the Eureka Brotherhood Cooperative.
Springer, an assistant professor of sculpture, has held positions as an independent contractor restoring houses and as the assistant to the senior producer of the PBS station in New York. She moved from New York City to the south about four years ago. Her work reflects her engagement with place and how it can be established, reinforced and lost.
The Arkansas Arts Council awards the $4,000 fellowships in recognition of artistic ability by artists who have created substantial bodies of work and have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to their art. They and the other winning artists will be recognized in a ceremony during the Governor’s Arts Awards luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 21, during the ArtLinks 2008 conference at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
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