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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. 

Read about previous award winners

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• 2021-2022 Award Winners
• 2021 Visual Art Award Winners
• 2020-2021 Creative & Performing Art Award Winners
• 2019-2020 Award Winners

Past Winner Lists (2019 and prior)

2019:

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.

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

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

2015-2016

Performing Artist Awards

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

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

Performing Artist Awards

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

Creative Artist Awards

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

2013-2014

Performing Artist Awards

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

Creative Artist Awards

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

2012-2013

Performing Artist Awards

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

Creative Artist Awards

• Music: Robert Zachary Howell

2011-2012

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

Performing Artist Awards

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

Creative Artist Awards

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