The College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts is proud to announce that eight former students were awarded the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts from the Troy, MI based Kresge Foundation. The foundation awarded a total of $450,000 in grants in July 2009 to 18 local visual artists. The $25,000 no-strings fellowships inaugurate one of the country’s most lucrative annual awards available to artists. The grants are designed to give winners financial breathing room to allow them to focus on making art. Congratulations to the awardees! Click on each artist's photo below to view their bio and images of selected work.

Shiva Ahmadi Class of 2000, 2003	Lynne Avadenka Class of 1978, 1981	Kristen Beaver Class of 2004	Ed Fraga Class of 1980
Gordon Newton Attended, 1968-72	Russ Orlando Class of 2005	Senghor Reid Class of 2005	Gilda Snowden Class of 1977, 1979

Click here for more information about the 2009 Kresge Artist Fellows competition.