Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation

ARTISTS SELECTED FOR THE SPACE PROGRAM 2009

The Space Program offered by The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation along with a Consortium of funders including: Basil Alkazzi, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc. The Robert Sterling Clark Visual Arts Space Award, The Richard Florsheim Art Fund Award for Older Artists, The Robert Gould Foundation, Agnes Gund, The Judith Rothschild Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. announces grants to 17 visual artists selected from 1150 applicants. A jury of artists Phong Bui, Cynthia Carlson, Robert Cottingham, Judy Pfaff and Dana Schutz selected the grantees for The Space Program.

The Richard Florsheim Art Fund Studio Awardees -

Barbara Ess - New York, NY and Jenny Snider - New York, NY

The Robert Sterling Clark Visual Arts Space Recipient -

Michael Waugh, Brooklyn, NY

Michael Berryhill Austin, TX

Rhona Bitner New York, NY

David Brooks Brooklyn, NY

Benjamin Dowell Brooklyn, NY

Kate Gilmore New York, NY

Josephine Halvorson Brooklyn, NY

Jaya Howey Brooklyn, NY

Sangram Majumdar Baltimore, MD

David Opdyke Brooklyn, NY

Nathlie Provosty Brooklyn, NY

Ishmael Randall Weeks Brooklyn, NY

Claire Sherman Galesburg, IL

Rob Swainston Brooklyn, NY

Karla Wozniak Brooklyn, NY

The Space Program, a national program now located in Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO) and in its nineteenth year, provides studios that are non-living spaces for the making of new works of art.

Marie Walsh Sharpe, a Colorado Springs, CO philanthropist, created the Foundation before her death in 1985 to benefit visual artists. The Foundation's Artists Advisory Committee: Cynthia Carlson, Chuck Close, Janet Fish, Philip Pearlstein, Irving Sandler, Harriet Shorr, and Robert Storr initiated and developed The Space Program in 1991 as a service to artists. In 2006 Phong Bui, Matthew Deleget and Tara Donovan were added to the Artists Advisory Committee.

The next application deadline for The Space Program will be January 31, 2010