Three Broward County Artists Receive South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Awards

South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) has awarded three Broward County artists through its Visual and Media Artists Program.

Anthony Anaya, Mixed Media; Madeline Denaro, Painting; and Sri Prabha, Video; each received the maximum award of $15,000. These are the largest awards accorded by local arts agencies to visual and media artists in the United States.

The three artists were honored by the Broward Cultural Council on November 3, and will be featured in a winners exhibition for the works of the 12 recipients from the five counties within the SFCC jurisdiction. The artworks will be on view at the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, 1650 Harrison Street, from September 8 through October 22, 2017.

The recipients were selected through a two-tier panel process of regional and national arts experts.

The 2015-2016 regional panel, whose selections are conducted anonymously and based solely on the evaluation of the artists' work as evidenced by the work of samples submitted, included: Jose Diaz, Curator, Bass Museum of Art (Miami-Dade); Dara Friedman, Artist, 2014-2015 SFCC Award Recipient (Miami-Dade); Silvia Lizama, Artist, 2014-2015 SFCC Award Recipient (Broward); Jillian Mayer, Artist, 2013 - 2014 SFCC Award Recipient (Broward); Diani Nawi, Curator, Jorge M. Perez Art Museum (Miami-Dade); and Amanda Sanfilippo, Director of Development, Locust Projects (Miami-Dade).

The submissions selected by the regional panel were forwarded for final selections to the national panel comprised of: Susan Thompson, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim (New York); Susan Kleinberg, Artist (New York); and Jose Carlos Diaz, Curator, Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh).

For additional information on the South Florida Cultural Consortium and the Broward County recipients, visit broward.org/arts.

About the Broward Cultural Division
Broward Cultural Division is a local arts agency, one of thousands across the U.S. providing financial, technical and marketing assistance to artists and arts organizations. Broward County has nearly 1.9 million residents, 15.4 million visitors, 10,000 artists, 6,291 arts-related businesses employing 23,498 people, 823 not-for-profit cultural organizations and 31 cities, some of which operate their own Arts Councils and public art programs. For more information about the Broward Cultural Division, call 954-357-7457.

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About South Florida Cultural Consortium
The South Florida Cultural Consortium is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, the Boards of County Commissioners of Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin and Monroe counties, and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.