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Tamarack Foundation for the Arts is accepting online applications for its 2021 Emerging Artist Fellowship program through Feb. 26 at 4:30 p.m. Fellowships are open to West Virginia artists 18 years of age or older who have worked in their field of traditional and fine craft or visual arts for three years or less, are prepared to commit time to technical training and education, and are prepared to create and present artwork for an exhibition at a West Virginia-based art institution. Fellowships provide professional development and growth opportunities, as well as a monetary award of $2,500 for supplies, space or other uses related to the development of work. ....
WEIRTON Artist Jaci Rice is a little “rusty” at her work. And that’s brought the Weirton woman personal and professional validation, specifically as one awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts for 2020. Rice was one of five artists selected from around West Virginia whose original works part of her #RustBeltBeauty series were showcased at Taylor Books in Charleston from Oct. 15 through mid-November. A link to the group show is available at https://tamarackfoundation.org/eaf2020exhibit./ The #RustBeltBeauty series, her website artist statement notes in part, challenges viewers “to discover aspects of beauty hidden in industrial and post-industrial areas like my hometown of Weirton, the monolith of West Virginia’s crumbling Rust Belt. Without stopping to observe the play of light and shadow, the hard juxtaposition of steel against the Ohio Valley hill, or the layers of color that decades of rust and soot have wr ....