Arts NC State Award Winners

The Arts NC State Performing, Creative, and Visual Arts Awards celebrate NC State students – of all majors and concentrations – who create and perform in dance, music and theatre. To read more about the awards, visit: go.ncsu.edu/artawards

Questions?

For more information, please contact Amy Sawyers-Williams, Coordinator of Arts Outreach, at 919.513.1044 or email amy_sawyers@ncsu.edu.

> Read about the 2022 Award Winners Here

> Read about the 2021 Visual Art Award Winners Here

> Read about the 2021 Creative & Performing Art Award Winners Here

> Read about the 2020 Winners Here

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2019 Winners:

Creative Artist Winners

• Bassam Bikdash: Music
• Katie Quinn: Dance
• Olivia Prevost: Dance

Performing Artist Winners:

• Hannah Monroe: Dance
• Isa Cortes: Dance
• Ryan Vasconcellos: Theatre
• Nicholas Murphy: Music (Piano)
• Colin Nash: Music (Voice)
• Will Shen: Music Wind/String/Percussion (Clarinet)

Visual Artist Winners:

• Britney Symone
• Tea Blumer
• Heike Schneider & Abram Magaldi  (Joint Submission)

 

2017-2018

Pictured above (from left), Arts NC State executive director Rich Holly, Emma Simon, Daniel Hueholt, Helena Boldizar, Jasmine Rouse, MaryJo McCoy, Natalie Sherwood, Noah Baldwin, Dedreanna Scott, Adrian Haywood, and Arts NC State director of development Jill Orr. Photo Credit Ross Joyner.

Click here for press release

Creative Artist Award

Dance

Adrian Haywood and Dedreanna Scott

Music

Noah Baldwin

Theatre

Natalie Sherwood

Performing Artist Award

Dance

MaryJo McCoy- NCSU Dance Company

Jasmine Rouse- Panoramic Dance Project

Music

Helena Boldizar- Vocal Performance

Daniel Hueholt-  Piano Performance

Theatre

Natalie Sherwood

Visual Artist Award

Emma Simon

 

2016-2017

2016-2017 Winners

Creative Artist Award

Dance

Gini Brown and Raine Conti

Theatre

Peter Lalush

Performing Artist Award

Dance

Gini Brown- NCSU Dance Company

Danyale Calhoun- Panoramic Dance Project

Music

Kristen Lovell- Vocal Performance

Chelsea Abad- Piano Performance

Chris Suggs- Trumpet Performance

Theatre

Areon Mobasher

Visual Artist Award

Claire Hider

The award winners will receive a monetary prize, be featured in our 2017-2018 Creative State Magazine, and will be honored at the annual Bowers Award Ceremony in the fall of 2017.

2015-2016

 

2015-2016 Award Winners

Link to Press Release HERE

 2015-2016 Award Recipients

2015-2016 Performing Artist Awards

• Dance: Rebecca Anderson and Holley Holmes
  
• Music: Areon Mobasher (Voice), Spencer Monaco (Instrument), Drew Marshburn (Piano)
• Theatre: Natalie Sherwood

2015-2016 Creative Artist Awards

• Music: Carter Harris, Waltzometry for Jazz Ensemble
• Theatre: Teal Lepley, Of Ghosts and Strangers
• Dance: Leslie Barber, Everything in My Head

 

2014-2015 Award Recipients

2014-2015 Performing Artist Awards

• Dance: Alexandra Cohen and Jacob Marx
  
• Music: Gautaum Nagara
• Theatre: Blair Downs

2014-2015 Creative Artist Awards

• Theatre: William Stewart, INK
• Theatre honorable mention: Britnique Hodge and Bethel Maekele

 

2013-2014 Award Recipients

Performing Artist Awards

• Dance: Holley Holmes
• Music: Alexandre Mangot
• Theatre: Morgan Piner

Creative Artist Awards

• Music: Cody Ellington
• Theatre: Christian O’Neal

 

2012-2013 Award Recipients

Performing Artist Awards

• Dance: Agee Taylor
• Music: Nathan Schnoor
• Theatre: Andrew Enloe and Brett Williams

Creative Artist Awards

• Music: Robert Zachary Howell

 

2011-2012 Award Recipients

Performing Artist Awards

• Dance: Hayley Dirscherl, graduate studies, Biomedical Engineering
• Music: Daniel Kim, Nuclear Engineering and Biological Engineering
• Theatre: Robert Steinberg, Marketing

Creative Artist Awards

• Theatre: Michael Seebold, English (World Literature) and Philosophy
• Read more about the 2011-2012 award recipients >

 

2010-2011 Award Recipients

Performing Artist Awards

• Dance: Kelly Ann Bryant
• Music: Daniel Cunningham
• Theatre: Brett Williams

Creative Artist Awards

• Dance: Ashley Nicole Walls
• Music: Joseph M. Pilot