ERNESTO OROZA AMONG MIAMI ARTISTS AWARDED $5OOOOO FOR “THE ELLIES”

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Oolite Arts, the Miami Beach–based arts organization formerly known as ArtCenter/South Florida, revealed tonight the winners of the Ellies, Miami’s Visual Arts Awards. A total of $500,000 will be divided among forty-five local artists who will use the funding to stage large-scale exhibitions, create public installations, host workshops, produce documentaries, build sound machines, and write cultural criticism.

“Ambitious and innovative, these projects show the depth in Miami’s visual arts community, and the talent that has helped to define this city,” said Oolite Arts president and CEO Dennis Scholl. “Oolite Arts was created to ‘help artists help themselves,’ as our founder Ellie Schneiderman likes to say. This funding helps their ideas, and careers, take flight.”

The Ellies are divided into three categories: The Creator Award, which offers project grants ranging from $2,000 to $25,000 to realize a visual arts project; $5,000 Teacher Travel Grants, which enable art educators to experience another city or country in order to enrich their teachings in the classroom; and the $75,000 Michael Richards Award, which honors an artist who is “achieving the highest levels of professional distinction in the visual arts through their practice.”

This year’s Michael Richards Award, which is named after an artist who was killed in the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, was given to Karen Rifas. The Chicago-born artist draws from architecture and minimalism to create paintings and sculptural forms that play with geometric shapes and one’s percption of space. In addition to the $75,000 prize, she will receive a commission from Oolite Arts that will be exhibited at the Bass.

Upon receiving the award, Rifas said: “This is an honor for the whole community. It’s the story of my being able to succeed as an artist here, to be educated here, work here, make art here, and teach many of the people who are working artists in Miami today.”

The full list of awardees is as follows:

Creator Award Winners
Aja Monet Bacquie
Germane Barnes
Cristine Brache
Liene Bosquê
Neil Brideau
Otari Oliva Buadze
Linda Chamorro
Clifton Childree
Yanira Collado
Rose Marie Cromwell
CYJO
Dana De Greff
Morel Doucet
Marcelo Ertorteguy
Liz Ferrer
Torrance Gettrell
A.G.
Gaspar González
Brookhart Jonquil
Carl Juste
David McCauley
Juan Ledesma
T. Eliott Mansa
Yucef Merhi
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
Emmett Moore
Ernesto Oroza
Christina Pettersson 
Terence Price II
Maria Corina Ramirez
Martha Raoli
Freddy Rodriguez
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
Gabriela Serra
Frances Trombly
Tom Virgin
Federico Uribe
Agustina Woodgate
Octavia Yearwood 

Teacher Travel Grants Winners
Elysa D. Batista
Johnnie Bess
Jennifer Gifford
Mary Larsen
Maggie Vidal-Santos