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Announcing 2018 3Arts Awards
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Judges

Music
Bau Graves ,  Trevor Weston ,  Dr. Nick John Demos

Visual Arts
Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez ,  Kianga Ford ,  Chuck Thurow

Theater
Victoria Lewis ,  Vincent Murphy ,  Sacha Yanow

Teaching Arts
Miguel Aguilar ,  Nick Jaffe ,  Ellen B. Rudolph

Dance
Rosemary Johnson ,  Ivan Sygoda ,  Bonnie Brooks

  • Marta Garcia Visual Artist Stan Lipkin & Evelyn Appell Lipkin Awardee
    Marta Garcia received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL with a concentration in Theater. After graduation she founded Akropolis Acting Company. As the Artistic Director, her company received recognition ...
  • Mierka Girten Actor
    Mierka Girten was last seen in SIMPATICO at A Red Orchid Theatre where she is a proud ensemble member. Off-Broadway, she was seen in MISTAKES WERE MADE with Michael Shannon and Sam Deutsch at the Barrow Street Theater. Other credits ...
  • Lisa Kaplan Pianist

    Born in Motown, Lisa Kaplan is a pianist specializing in the performance of new work by living composers. Kaplan is also the founding pianist of the four-time Grammy Award-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird. She has won numerous awards, performed all over ...

  • Irena Haiduk Multidisciplinary Artist Chandler Family Awardee
    Irena (Knezevic) Haiduk is a Serbian artist working in various visual art formats, music, and architecture. She has performed and exhibited her work in solo projects at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; threewalls, Chicago; White Columns, New York; Massachusetts Institute ...
  • Ronnie Kuller Composer

    Ronnie Kuller is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, teaching artist, and the Artistic Director of Mucca Pazza. She has written music for Mucca Pazza, Theater Oobleck, The Cambrians, and the Actor’s Gym, as well as Opera-Matic, where she is an Artistic Associate ...

  • Michel Rodriguez Dancer McCormick Family Foundation Awardee
    Michel Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba and graduated from the Cuban National School of Art in 2003. He began dancing as a company member of Danza Contemporanea de Cuba in 2003 and became a principal dancer in 2006 participating ...
  • Vershawn Sanders-Ward Choreographer Southwest Airlines Awardee

    Vershawn Sanders-Ward is a movement artivist, and Founder and Artistic Director of Red Clay Dance Company based in Chicago, IL. A native of Chicago, Sanders-Ward holds a MFA in Dance from New York University and a BFA in Dance from Columbia ...

  • Robert Schleifer Actor Siragusa Foundation Awardee

    Robert Schleifer has worked as a teaching artist and an actor. He has had the privilege of teaching his classes and workshops all over the world including several renewed Opera Programs in Austria and Italy. He has taught at Act ...

  • Kelli Simpkins Actor Merrill Lynch Awardee

    Kelli Simpkins is an artistic associate of About Face Theater and is a company member of Tectonic Theater Project in NYC. She is one of the original creator/performers of THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Off-B’Way, Denver Center, Berkeley Rep., LaJolla Playhouse ...

  • Cauleen Smith Experimental Filmmaker Lydia Yun Lee & Lisa Yun Lee Awardee

    Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema ...

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