Twelve Fulbright College Students, Faculty and Alumni Receive 2021 Artists 360 Awards |

Twelve students, faculty and alumni from departments across the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences are among 25 Northwest Arkansas artists selected for grants from the Mid-America Arts Alliance as part of the group’s 2021 Artists 360 Awards.

Artists 360, a program of the Mid-America Arts Alliance made possible through the support of the Walton Family Foundation, is a three-year pilot program that provides grant funding and professional development opportunities to individual artists of all disciplines in the greater Northwest Arkansas area.

Fulbright College’s 2021 recipients spanned several areas of the fine arts and humanities, including those from the School of Art, the Department of English’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation, the Department of History, the Department of Music, and the Department of Theatre.

The full list of Fulbright College’s recipients include:

Jane Blunschi, creative writing and translation M.F.A. alumna
Robin Bruce, first-year creative writing and translation M.F.A. poetry candidate
Willi Carlisle, creative writing and translation M.F.A. alumnus
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, visiting assistant professor in studio art ceramics
Sean Fitzgibbon, F.A. art alumnus
Airic Hughes, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History
Karstin Johnson, fourth-year creative writing and translation M.F.A. candidate
Sarah Louks, M.F.A. playwriting candidate in theatre
Nikola Radan, instructor in jazz studies and music industry and technology
Junli Song, third-year printmaking M.F.A. graduate student in art
Lia Uribe, associate chair and associate professor of music and bassoon
Markeith Woods, final year painting M.F.A. graduate student in art