I am honored to have been awarded a Fellowship from The Idaho Commission on the Arts.
"Five Idaho artists have been awarded Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowships in Craft, Design & Visual Arts: Sarah Bird (Hailey), Pamela DeTuncq(Hailey), Lonnie Hutson (Deary), Anika Smulovitz (Boise), and Nishiki Sugawara-Beda (Moscow). Fellowship winners will each receive $5,000. The awards, given every three years, recognize outstanding artists, honoring work deemed to exhibit the highest artistic merit during peer review. Applicants were reviewed anonymously in a highly competitive process by panelists from out of state and were judged solely on the basis of existing work and professional history. The panel also awarded Honorable Mentions in the amount of $1,000 to silver engraver Brian Hochstrat, conceptual artist Lianne Wappett, and mosaic artist Anna Webb."
2018