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  1. Meet the 2009 MakeWork Grant Recipients Tuesday, June 02, 2009

    CreateHere is pleased to announce the names of 2009’s MakeWork grant recipients. Fashion designers and sculptors, guitar makers and choreographers, this group’s creative diversity speaks to one major truth: Chattanooga is a city with the talent to make great works.

    2009 MakeWork grant recipients include, in alphabetical order:

    Phillip Allen, DJing
    Charles Alison, music production
    Verina Baxter, sculpture
    Bruce Bennett, guitar making
    Carl Cadwell, music
    Mary Carrithers, painting
    Jill Clark, conceptual art
    Amy Clyde, photography
    Tim Cofield, film
    Kimara Cox, fashion
    Cessna Decosimo, sculpture
    Isaac Duncan III, sculpture
    Matt Evans, folk music
    Lindsay Fussell, choreography
    Michael Holsomback, painting
    Shaun Inman, digital media
    Mark Issenberg, pottery
    James Courtenay James, painting
    Leslie Jensen-Inman, writing
    Ron Lowery, photography
    Mary Beth McClure, glass
    John McLeod, sculpture
    Jonathan McNair, music composition
    John O’Keefe-Odom, photography
    Michael Pack, music production
    John Petrey, sculpture
    Dave Porfiri, film
    Mary Helen Robert, metalsmithing
    Brad Shelton, photography
    Thomas Spake, glass
    Cynthia Watson, printmaking
    Stratton Tingle & Jon-Michael Brown, multimedia
    Charlie Yowell, glass

    MakeWork’s team of independent jurors awarded $301,226—nearly double the initially planned total—thanks to the strength and promise of this year’s applicants, in addition to generous support from the Benwood and Lyndhurst foundations.

    In economic hard times, conventional wisdom tells us that creative individuals and enterprises take the deepest cuts; that creative work is, in fact, a dispensable luxury. But CreateHere couldn’t disagree more. We believe the arts are essential to developing and maintaining healthy local economies.

    Thank you to everyone who applied, and congratulations to this year’s grant recipients!

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