Renee van der Stelt, CADVC Receives Pollack Krasner Award, Accepted into MacDowell Colony
Renee van der Stelt, museum educator and exhibition registrar for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, received a prestigious Pollock Krasner Foundation Award for $20,000. Pollock-Krasner grants have enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as personal expenses. Past recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants acknowledge their critical impact in allowing concentrated time for studio work, and in preparing for exhibitions and other professional opportunities such as accepting a residency.

This spring, van der Stelt will be an artist-in-residence at MacDowell Colony (in New Hampshire), the oldest artists' colony in the United States. The Colony's mission is “to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination.”

UMBC Swimming and Diving's Reitz and Cantwell Earn America East Weekly Awards
The UMBC men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams combined to earn both America East Swimming Performer of the Week awards for the week ending Nov. 19. Freshman Brad Reitz and junior Tina Cantwell garnered the awards after their outstanding performances at the George Mason Patriot Invitational.
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