The Vermont Arts Council, in association with Governor Phil Scott, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards. These awards are presented annually to recognize outstanding individual and organizational contributions to the arts. Awards are given to educators, artists, performers, advocates, administrators, volunteers, and scholars. In 2017, Vermonters will be recognized for their contributions in five categories.
Taryn Noelle of Stowe will receive the Ellen McCulloch-Lovell Award in Arts Education, which honors those whose work has substantially improved student engagement in and knowledge of the arts.
Noelle has been performing, teaching, choreographing, and directing in Vermont for the past 20 years. She teaches dance at Green Mountain Performing Arts in Waterbury, and is the theatre program director for Stowe High School.
She has taught at the Vermont One Act Festival, Green Mountain Performing Arts, Ballet Wolcott and the Vermont Young Playwrights Festival.
Past recipients of the Ellen McCulloch-Lovell Award include Peter Gould, Karen Amirault, Jon Gailmor, Geof Hewitt and Verandah Porche.
Other honorees include author and illustrator David Macaulay of Norwich, Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; author Chris Bohjalian of Lincoln, Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts; Cornelia Carey of Caleis, executive director of the nonprofit CERF+ artist emergency relief organization, Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy; and the Vermont Folklife Center’s Gregory S. Sharrow of Middlebury, Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts.
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The Governor’s Arts Awards celebration will be held Tuesday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. Tickets for the event will be available starting Sept. 26.
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