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Felicia Rice honored with Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship
UCSC alumna Felicia Rice (Cowell ’78)–manager for the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program-has been awarded a $20,000 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. Rice is one of four Santa Cruz County artists selected from a pool of 46 visual artists that will receive the grants to pursue their work. The Rydell fellowships were established by […]
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UCSC alumna Felicia Rice (Cowell ’78)–manager for the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program-has been awarded a $20,000 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. Rice is one of four Santa Cruz County artists selected from a pool of 46 visual artists that will receive the grants to pursue their work.
The Rydell fellowships were established by long-time Santa Cruz cultural icons Roy and Frances Rydell and are administered by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. They are awarded solely on artistic merit by a panel of arts professionals from outside the Santa Cruz area.
A lifelong resident of the California coast, Rice came to Santa Cruz as a student at UCSC in 1974. Three years later, she established Moving Parts Press web site and began her career as a printer, teacher, literary/fine arts publisher, and book artist.
Work from Moving Parts Press has been included in exhibitions and collections both nationally and internationally–from book shows in New York and Frankfurt to the Victoria & Albert Museum. Moving Parts Press has also received numerous awards and grants from organizations that include the National Endowment for the Arts and the French Ministry of Culture.