7/8/09

Hartmut Austen wins Kresge Artist Fellowship Award

Hartmut Austen is the recipient of one of the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowships in the Visual Arts.

The Fellowships, each including a $25,000 prize funded by The Kresge Foundation, are awarded annually to visual, performing and literary artists and are the largest such awards available to individual artists in metropolitan Detroit.

The 2009 Kresge Artist Fellowship Panel that selected the fellows includes: Susan Bandes, director of Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan; Aaron Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; Dick Goody, director of the Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI; Lorna Simpson, artist, Brooklyn, NY; and Richard Tuttle, artist, New York, NY and Abiquiu, New Mexico.

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