Meet the 2024 State Fellows for Literary Arts and Visual Arts! South Arts is pleased to announce the inaugural class of State Fellows for Literary Arts alongside the 2024 State Fellows for Visual Arts in our flagship Southern Prize and State Fellowships program.
As the latest expansion of the annual program, which scaled up this year to include support for the literary arts in addition to the longstanding visual arts component, the multi-state initiative is awarding 18 State Fellows with unrestricted cash prizes of $5,000 each; the artists are now in competition for the larger Southern Prize for Literary Arts and Southern Prize for Visual Arts awards.
The State Fellows for Visual Arts will be included in a touring exhibition opening this October at the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood in Hollywood, FL, and has an opportunity to win the Southern Prize for Visual Arts. The State Fellows for Literary Arts will be featured as guests and panelists at the Mississippi Book Festival in September.
The 2024 State Fellows for Literary Arts are:
• 2024 Alabama Fellow for Literary Arts: Randi Pink | Irondale, AL
• 2024 Florida Fellow for Literary Arts: Camille Boxhill | Coral Springs, FL
• 2024 Georgia Fellow for Literary Arts: Constance Collier-Mercado | Atlanta, GA
• 2024 Kentucky Fellow for Literary Arts: Ashley Blooms | Lexington, KY
• 2024 Louisiana Fellow for Literary Arts: Maurice Ruffin | New Orleans, LA
• 2024 Mississippi Fellow for Literary Arts: Melissa Ginsburg | Oxford, MS
• 2024 North Carolina Fellow for Literary Arts: Joanna Pearson | Carrboro, NC
• 2024 South Carolina Fellow for Literary Arts: F.E. Choe | Columbia, SC
• 2024 Tennessee Fellow for Literary Arts: Yurina Yoshikawa | Nashville, TN
The 2024 State Fellows for Visual Arts are:
• 2024 Alabama Fellow for Visual Arts: Tony Bingham | Birmingham, AL
• 2024 Florida Fellow for Visual Arts: Elliot and Erick Jimenez | Pinecrest, FL
• 2024 Georgia Fellow for Visual Arts: Zipporah Camille Johnson | Atlanta, GA
• 2024 Kentucky Fellow for Visual Arts: Robyn Moore | Wellington, KY
• 2024 Louisiana Fellow for Visual Arts: Macon Reed | New Orleans, LA
• 2024 Mississippi Fellow for Visual Arts: Brooke Alexander | Oxford, MS
• 2024 North Carolina Fellow for Visual Arts: Isys Hennigar | Columbus, NC
• 2024 South Carolina Fellow for Visual Arts: Charles Clary | Conway, SC
• 2024 Tennessee Fellow for Visual Arts: Nelson Gutierrez | Memphis, TN
The Southern Prize and State Fellowships program is supported by Southern First Bank, the Warner Fund, the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, and other donors.
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