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Sara Christensen Blair Receives Bush Foundation Dakota Creative Connections Grant
Released July 22, 2008
(ABERDEEN,
SD) Northern State University Assistant Professor of Art, Sarah
Christensen Blair was one of ten visual artists from South and North
Dakota to receive a Bush Foundation Dakota Creative Connections
grant. Recipients of the grant will share $50,000 for projects focused
on helping them develop new ideas and directions in their creative
lives, as well as participation in three retreats over the next
year to help create professional development programs uniquely geared
toward the needs of artists in these two states. Blair received
$6,000.
According to a release from the Bush Foundation “Sara Christensen
Blair transforms traditional craft and domestic processes into fine
art context, plans to capture on video the stories of family members
who engage in domestic fiber crafts, to be used in future exhibitions
of her own work.”
“The selection panel chose a terrific first cohort of Dakota
Creative Connection recipients. These artists are going to make
a huge impact in the Dakotas, not only by deepening their own art
practices and providing leadership among their fellow artists, but
also by teaching the Foundation how better to support artists in
North and South Dakota,” says Bush Foundation President Peter
Hutchinson.
The Dakota Creative Connection recipients were chosen by a regional
panel of five artists and curators who met in Brookings, S.D., over
a two-day period in June.
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About Northern State University
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