Susana Meyer Biannual
Creative Arts Award
ShoutOut, with Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, announces three awards:
1. $2,500 to go toward work created by an individual in Visual or Decorative Arts, Music, Literary Arts, Film, Photography, Video, Dance, or Performance Art.
2. Two (2) project-based grants of $750 for artistic projects that creatively enrich the quality of community life - aesthetically, environmentally, or both. It may be a collaboration among two or three applicants.
The awards honor Susana Meyer’s work with artists throughout her career, her love of the natural world, and her contributions to the creative life of Saugerties.
Criteria:
Full or part time resident, or completion of significant artistic work in Saugerties Town or Village (submit evidence by photos and/or testimony)
Commitment and ability to complete project (please explain)
18 or over
Submission requirements:
CV or biography
Description of project
Sample of Existing Work, e.g., photos, video, writing samples
Proposals due Monday, June 3rd to: info@shoutoutsaugerties.org
or by mail to 21 2nd Street, Saugerties, 12477. Direct any questions to info@shoutoutsaugerties.org
Susana Meyer (1948-2018) had a distinguished career as an artistic administrator, programmer, artist manager, casting director, and producer in the performing arts, especially opera, in New York City and at Bard College. In Saugerties, Susana was a member of the steering group for the new Arm-of-the-Sea Tidewater Center. For the first two years of ShoutOut, she brought her management experience, photography skills, and wholehearted enthusiasm to artists and to the organization.
Susana Meyer portrait © Josepha Gutelius
To support a full creative life for all peoples, ShoutOut Saugerties commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive community. The organization does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status in any of its activities or operations.
Previous Award Winners
2022 Award Winners: Sharon Penz, Michael Nelson, Nina Schmidbaur
Sharon Penz: Individual Artist Award - Dance
Gulp is a dance/theater piece about connections -- to ourselves, to each other, and to the planet. The piece will be an evening-length choreographic work that incorporates text, sound, and music.
Michael Nelson: Community Engaged Art Project - Film
“A People’s History of Saugerties” -- history told in short stories from a citizen’s point of view.
Nina Schmidbaur: Community Engaged Art Project - Environment
Artistic signage that will educate folks to the pollinators and flowers in the town’s first Pollinator Garden on Partition and Montrose.
2021 Award Winners: Cheri Magid, Pamela Pentony, Joanne Pagano Weber
Individual Artist Award: Cheri Magid (Pictured) for opera Penelope and the Geese workshop; Community Engagement Award to each Pamela Pentony for Jazz on the Beach series, and Joanne Pagano Weber for Portraits of Saugerties.
2020 Award Winners: Lorrie Fredette & Kris Garnier
Kris Garnier spends time exploring in woods, fields, stream-sides, mountain tops, overgrown lots and cracks in a sidewalk, in search of interesting plants that she observes and preserves in her herbarium. For her project, Kris' sought out and mounted native and non native plants growing in Saugerties.
Lorrie Fredette's installations are informed by the way human health and nature intersect at the micro level. She employs seriality and materiality to create visual verses of beauty, harmony and awe. For her project, “Spaces for Thinking,” Lorrie examined how a work of art begins by exploring sketches and ideas in work books and comparing that to the final product. Learn more→
2019 Award Winner: Katie Cokinos
Katie Cokinos has made over ten short films and in 2000 wrote, directed, and acted in the feature film, Portrait of a Girl as a Young Cat which premiered at SXSW. Her project “Water Keeps Time” documents the history and community of Saugerties, New York, interpreted through its relationship to the Esopus Creek and Hudson River.