August 25, 2008—
Applicants to the Bush Foundation’s 2009 Bush Artist Fellowships will be able to submit online applications for the first time, beginning October 1.
{ READ MORE }“I am at heart a surrealist.”
My proposed plans for the fellowship year might sound strange—essentially I ask for the time to reinvent myself. I’m certain that I am a playwright and will always write plays, but there’s something more that I desire in my development as a theater artist. There’s another step that has nothing to do with writing another play and finding a production for it. The feeling I can describe only as an implicit understanding that my more recent ideas seem to be somehow not contained in a computer, on a page. They are messier, maybe they are bigger, and they make me want to get my hands dirty. —From Kira Obolensky’s BAF application

Frank Big Bear, Janel Jacobson and Walter Piehl are the first three recipients of the Bush Artist Program’s Enduring Vision Awards, a $100,000 award for mature artists.
August 25, 2008—
Applicants to the Bush Foundation’s 2009 Bush Artist Fellowships will be able to submit online applications for the first time, beginning October 1.
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