Santa Ana Artist, Irvine Groups Receive $14,500
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A Santa Ana folk artist and two Irvine-based arts groups were awarded a total of $14,500 from the California Arts Council at a regular meeting Tuesday in Loma Linda.
Zenovia L. Wrzesniewski, a master of Ukrainian pysanky , or egg painting, won a Traditional Folk Arts Program Master-Apprentice Award of $2,500 to teach her skill to an apprentice. She is one of 13 folk artists statewide to receive awards. A total of $31,190 was awarded statewide to the 13.
Arpana Dance Company, which performs Bharata natyam , a classical southern India dance form, and Multicultural Women Writers of Orange County, an ethnically diverse group of women who weave “a feminist and/or ethnic consciousness” into their fiction, poetry, essays and plays, both won Multi-Cultural Entry Program grants.
The two groups will receive $2,000 for the next three years.
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