DVAA awards three fellowships

NARROWSBURG — The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) recently awarded a total of $9,000 for visual arts fellowships to three area artists: J. Morgan Puett, an installation artist from Milanville, Karin Giusti, a sculptor from North Branch, and Michael Sell, a pastel artist from Tyler Hill. Funding was made possible by a grant from a private foundation, which has made an annual commitment to these fellowships through the year 2003.

Puett did her undergraduate and graduate work at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited both as a solo artist and collaboratively in galleries and museums such as The Center of Contemporary Art in Fribourg, Switzerland; ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine; Shack, Inc., New York City; Art Awareness in Lexington, NY; and at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.

Giusti received her graduate degree in sculpture from Yale University. She recently exhibited at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Her transparent structure, “The White House Green House” will be part of “Public Projects” at Nikolai Fine Art in New York City, from May 31 to July 15.

A native Californian, Sell graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. His still life pastels have been shown in McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas; The Museum Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; the Athenauem Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and Rizzoli Gallery in New York. Sell is currently working on figurative pastels.

DVAA is an arts council founded in 1976. Its mission is to provide leadership and build collaborations that advance the arts in Sullivan County and the Upper Delaware Valley; to encourage and support cultural programs relevant to all citizens; and to provide services to individual artists, arts organizations and the area’s arts industry.

For more information call 845/252-7576 or visit www.artsalliancesite.org.