 – The North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA) has awarded three artist fellowships in the disciplines of Dance and Theater. Camilla Morrison of the Grand Forks…){kind=link}
BISMARCK, ND (AAPJ) – The North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA) has awarded three artist fellowships in the disciplines of Dance and Theater.
Camilla Morrison of the Grand Forks Theater was awarded $3,500 for costume development and installations. She is a Costume Designer, Draper, Artist and Teacher.
During the school year, Camilla is the Costume Designer/Instructor at the University of North Dakota. She earned her MFA in Costume Design and Technology at Louisiana State University and her BA in Theatre from Salisbury University in Maryland.
Camilla was named an Emerging Artist in the 2019 USITT Exhibited Artists in the Prague Quadrennial, where her devised work, “Nightmares Are Dreams, Too” was exhibited.
Companies with which Camilla has worked include UND Theatre, Empire Theatre Company, Theatre B, Black Hills Playhouse, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Serenbe Playhouse, and North Dakota Shakespeare. Camilla was the Costume Design Fellow at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York in the summer of 2015 where she designed four experimental Wedge productions and four Theatre For Young Audiences productions.
Previously, Camilla worked in the Washington D.C. area as a freelance Costume Designer, Stage Manager, Teaching Artist and Arts Administrator. She is the recipient of the Joanne Grant Scholarship for Excellence in Theatre from Salisbury University and the Board of Regents Fellowship from Louisiana State University.
$2,500 for theatre production development was awarded to Playwright, Storyteller and Director, Hamzat (Amoussa) Koriko who is the Artistic Director of the African Arts Arena. It is based in Grand Forks, ND, where he uses performing and visual to engage communities on challenges and opportunities of immigration.
Hamzat is a multidisciplinary art professional who worked with theater institutions in West Africa, France, Italy, and the US. He was a featured author at the 42nd Annual UND Writers Conference at the University of North Dakota in 2011.
His works include “The Case of the Missing Girl” (Lambert Academic Publishing 2019); Jazve (Awudi, 2009); L’ombre de nuit (Harmattan, 2012); Quand L’oiseau S’envole (Harmattan, 2007). His translation of Quand L’oiseau S’envole (When the bird takes flight) was invited to the Kennedy Center (KCACTF) in 2010.
Hamzat taught French and the Research Scholars: The Immigrants Experience in North America at the University of North Dakota. With the support of local and state grants, Hamzat has been actively engaging the community on issues of immigration and new American integration with his project, The New American in your Backyard.
He shares his passion and artistic expertise with the youth with the help of NDCA’s Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.
Shalini Agarwal was awarded $1,000 for North Dakota dance workshops in traditional Indian style. Agarwal is a multi-disciplinary artist in folk dance and visual art from India.
She learned folk dance styles, ‘Garba’ and ‘Dandiya’, from Minal Ben in Gujarat, India and Bollywood dance at Prince Dance Academy in Mumbai, India.
Shalini has worked as a dance instructor for K-12 students as well as for adults and has been based in Fargo since 2015, performing regularly in the Fargo-Moorhead area.
Her dance is inspired by the movement, repetition and simplicity of folk art and dance. Through her dance, she aims to allow the audience and participants to find their connection with the community and culture.
About
The Individual Artist Fellowship program recognizes practicing artists residing in North Dakota with a monetary fellowship award. This program is designed to support professional artists with outstanding talent and ability to improve their artistic skills and enhance their career opportunities. Fellowships for Visual Art and Media Arts artists will be awarded in 2021. More information at: https://www.arts.nd.gov/grants
