The national grant-making and advocacy organization United States Artists (USA) has selected 52 outstanding artists to receive 50 USA Fellowships for 2010, awarding them with unrestricted grants of $50,000. This marks the fifth year of the USA Fellows program and brings the total that USA has invested in living artists to $12.5 million since 2006. Chosen for the caliber and impact of their work, the USA Fellows for 2010 hail from 18 states and Puerto Rico, range in age from 32 to 71, and represent some of the most innovative and diverse creative talents in the country. They include cutting-edge experimenters and traditional practitioners from the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, film and media, music, theater arts, and visual arts.
Two of the fellows are San Francisco based. Ms Green is the Dean of Graduate Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute with a long list of installations/media works and publications to her credit. Allison Smith has shown at the Haines Gallery and SFMOMA. (more links below). I think it says something about the Bay Area's attraction to cutting edge art that two of the nine winners in the visual arts category work here.
Here’s the full Visual Arts list
Siah Armajani, USA Knight Fellow, Minneapolis, MN
Dara Birnbaum, USA Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellow, New York, NY
Mel Chin, USA Kippy Fellow, Burnsville, NC
Renée Green, USA Simon Fellow, San Francisco, CA (Dean at SFAI)
Glenn Ligon, USA Guthman Fellow, New York, NY
Mary Lucier, USA Gracie Fellow, Cochecton, NY
Allison Smith, USA Friends Fellow, Oakland, CA
Anna Von Mertens, USA Simon Fellow, Peterborough, NH
Doug Wheeler, USA Mohn Fellow, Santa Fe, NM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Green
http://www.allisonsmithstudio.com/
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