Laguna Beach Arts Alliance Nominees for the 13th Annual Art Star Awards
Laguna Beach Arts Alliance (LBAA) announces the nominees for the 13th Annual Art Star Awards to be held on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 6:00pm, generously sponsored by [seven-degrees] in Laguna Beach.
At this red-carpet event, the winners will be announced and presented with one-of-a-kind Art Star award sculptures, created by Louis Longi. These organizations, businesses and individuals contributed and shaped the arts and culture in Laguna Beach in 2018.
LBAA’s Chairperson, Rosemary Swimm states “The Laguna Beach Arts Community continues to be blessed with an abundance of programs and supporters of the arts, each and every one of them deserving of special recognition for all that they bring to our community and all that they do. Nominations for LBAA’s 2019 Art Star Awards were overflowing with impressive programs and contributors to the arts making the award selection committee’s job almost an impossible one. Members of the Laguna Beach Arts Alliance (LBAA) worked diligently to choose winners from the impressive list of nominees.
LBAA will be introducing a new category to our Art Star Awards this year – “Volunteer of the Year”
If the selection committee’s job wasn’t hard enough this new category has added another challenge in coming up with just one deserving winner when again we are blessed with so many. We may only be awarding one Volunteer of the Year award but our heartfelt thanks go out to each and every one of our community’s volunteers and supporters of the arts.
Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts this year honors artist Scott Moore with a special Art Star Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his accomplishments as an artist in Laguna Beach.
The additional categories and the nominees are:
Best Arts Program
LAM 100th Anniversary Celebration
Laguna Beach Live!
Laguna Playhouse: year-round season
Individual Arts Patron
Carla and Jeff Meberg
Riggie Horvath
William J. Gillespie
Corporate Arts Patron
Laguna Beach Company / Mo Honarker Family
Jared Mathis/Moulton Company
National Charities League
Outstanding Arts Collaboration
Festival of Mosaics
Pageant of the Monsters
FOA Junior Art Exhibit Program
Arts Leadership
Marinta Skupin
Mike Tauber
Toni Kellenberg
Artist of the Year
Jason Feddy
Brittany Ryan
April Raber
Volunteer of the Year
Charlie Ferrazzi
Lindy Narver
Sande St. John
The 2019 Art Stars Award winners will be announced during the event.
To purchase tickets to attend the 13th Annual Art Star Awards, please contact: info@lagunabeacharts.org. Tickets are $100 each and include dinner as well as all the festivities.
The Laguna Beach Arts Alliance was established in 2002 as the result of an exciting partnership among more than 20 Laguna Beach organizations. The mission is to serve as an advocate for the arts, promote collaboration and networking among the arts organizations of Laguna Beach, and to serve as a united voice for the arts in the city. Members of the Arts Alliance include Laguna Art-A-Fair Festival, Laguna Dance Festival, City of Laguna Beach Arts Commission, Community Art Project, Festival of Arts, First Thursdays Art Walk, KX 93.5 Radio, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach Craft Guild, Laguna Beach Live!, Laguna Beach Sister Cities Association, Visit Laguna Beach, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Concert Band, LOCA Arts Education, Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, Lagunatunes Community Chorus, Blue Water Green Earth, No Square Theatre, Sawdust Art Festival, and [seven-degrees].
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