The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge is seeking nominations for the 2010 recipients of the Perry F. Kendig Award for Outstanding Support of the Arts. This year the Perry F. Kendig Awards will include awards to individual artists in the following discipline: performing, visual and literary arts. Awards will also be presented in the following category of Arts Supporters: Arts Education Program, Business, Arts and Cultural Organization, Individual Patron of the Arts, and Young Professional.
Nominations will be accepted through March 1, 2010. Forms are available at The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge or by visiting www.theartscouncil.org.
The Perry F. Kendig awards are chosen by a committee of community volunteers and based on the nominations of the general public. A reception and award ceremony will be held at Roanoke College on June 9, 2010. This year’s celebration will be the 25th Anniversary of the Perry F. Kendig Awards and will feature a silent auction of “Everything Silver.”
The 2009 recipients were C. Nelson Harris as the Outstanding Individual, National League of American Pen Women – Roanoke Valley Branch as the Outstanding Arts & Cultural Organization, Anstey Hodge Advertising Group for the Outstanding Business, Community High School for the Outstanding Arts Education Program and Coleman Gutshall as the Outstanding Young Professional. Artist awards were given to: Pedro Szalay as the Outstanding Performing Artist, Paul Harrill as the Outstanding Visual Artist, and Dan Smith & Tom Field with Valley Business Front as Outstanding Literary Artists. Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas Taubman were recognized for their lifetime achievement to the arts.
The awards are named for the late Perry F. Kendig, a Roanoke Valley arts patron who was also a president of Roanoke College. It was established in 1985 to recognize examples of support, involvement and accomplishment in the arts, and to inform the community about significant contributions to the arts in our region. The activity is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the City of Roanoke.