Join us in celebrating the 2023-2024 grant recipients!
Lane Arts Council has awarded $12,800 in grants to 7 artists. Artist Grants provide financial support to artists to pursue a new creative endeavor (Production), invest in their artistic development (Development), or bolster artistic business capacity (Investment) in order to advance their career.
Artist Grants were awarded to provide support for artists connected to Eugene during the grant cycle running from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. The Artist Grant program is funded by the City of Eugene Cultural Services Division and administered by Lane Arts Council.
Artist Grant Recipients
Ciara Cuddihy-Hernandez
$2,000 award
Studio West will be using the artist grant to purchase a larger kiln for the studio. With this wonderful new piece of equipment we will be able to accommodate larger school groups and members of the community. Pictured: Glass blowing in progress at Studio West
Dee Etzwiler
$2,000 award
Dee Etzwiler will work collaboratively with the Eugene non-profit organization, Cascades Raptor Center, to create a Narrative Collage that will express raptor migration. This informative and abstract work of art will be commercially printed on a metal substrate and installed at an exterior location on Cascades Raptor Center property. Pictured: Detail of “St. Croix Watershed Research Station” (2021) by Dee Etzwiler
Sarah Grew
$800 award
Sarah Grew will use grant funds to support work connected to Ghost Forest, an art installation that transforms the destructive force of wildfires into photographs made of ash. In conjunction with her exhibition at Cal State, Stanislaus is printing a catalog of the work. Grant funds will allow Grew to print additional copies of the catalog to use to promote her work further. Pictured: Sarah Grew
Cynthia Gutierrez Garner
$2,000 award
With the 2023-24 Artist Grant Cynthia Gutierrez Garner will produce, with Company Movimiento, an evening-length work entitled, Sabor: Celebrating Cuisine and Culture in the LatinX Community. The concert will feature her original choreography and will explore the powerful ways that love and food can both nourish despite disparate channels. The evening of contemporary work will use dance as a tool for cultural illumination–creating space for inquiry, contemplation, and discourse for both the observer and performer. Pictured: Cynthia Gutierrez Garner
Emily Halnon
$2,000 award
Emily Halnon will use funds to support her forthcoming memoir TO THE GORGE (Pegasus Books), which is about losing her mother to a rare cancer and attempting to set the speed record on the 460-mile Oregon Pacific Crest Trail to celebrate her life – and to find a way to keep going through the grief of losing her. The book is a memoir-in-essays, which uses each of the eight days of the run, and stories from her mother’s life and death, to explore the complicated experience of grief – and what shines through it. Emily will use the award to finish writing the book and host regional events and conversations after its publication in May 2024. Pictured: Emily Halnon
Rachell Jarvis
$2,000 award
Rachell Jarvis will use grant funds to order tools and materials for use in glass fusing workshops beginning Fall 2023. The funding will allow for discounted workshop fees and the ability to rent spaces in the community to host workshops that are ADA friendly and easily accessible by public transportation. Pictured: Glass fused artworks fresh out of the kiln, made under the direction of Rachell Jarvis
Jen Sennett
$2,000 award
Jen Sennett will use awarded funds to purchase a class-sized set of Ukuleles to provide Artist-in-Residence Ukulele lessons to schools that do not own their own set. This investment will support the expansion of Sennett’s educator work while serving schools and students in our local community. Pictured: Jen Sennett
Resources for 2023-2024 Awardees:
Download Lane Arts Council Logo
Download City of Eugene Logo
PDF of the 2023-2024 Final Grant Report (for preparation purposes only; information must be submitted through Google Form)