The Rasmuson Foundation announced its Individual Artist Award winners for 2019, and Southeast will be well-represented.<\/p>\n
James Hoagland of <\/a>Juneau<\/a>, known to many in the capital city by the drag name Gigi Monroe, and Vivian Faith Prescott, who contributes to the Capital City <\/a>Weekly<\/a>, of Wrangell, were each selected as fellows this year.<\/p>\n Prescott will create a full-length manuscript of poems as a “climate wellness,” which will document her relationship to the changing climate, according to a release from the foundation.<\/p>\n Hoagland will pursue training in voice, dance, script writing and costume design, according to the release.<\/p>\n That distinction comes with an $18,000 award that’s intended to allow mid-career artists to focus their energy and attention on their art.<\/p>\n This year’s distinguished artist is Richard Nelson of Sitka, which comes with a $40,000 award.<\/p>\n Seven artists from Southeast Alaska earned project awards, which come with $7,500 in support.<\/p>\n Those include include Michaela Goade of <\/a>Juneau<\/a>, sculptor Rhonda Green of Ketchikan, photographer John S. Hagen of Haines, weaver Anastasia Shaawat Kah Gei Hobson-George of Juneau, Uillean piper John Ingman of Sitka, multidisciplinary artist Ellie Schmidt of Sitka and metal carver Jeffery P. Sheakley Jr. of Coffman Cove.<\/p>\n Rasmuson Foundation named a total of 35 artists in 18 Alaska communities as Individual Artist Award recipients for <\/a>2019<\/a>. There was a statewide pool of 317 applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s who won. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":48104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[174,74,73],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-48103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-ccw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48103"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}