KENTUCKY CAREER AWARDS COMPETITION

For the past five decades, young kentucky artists have been invited to compete annually in professionally judged Career Award Competitions that rotate in the five featured disciplines of the fine arts: Art, Dance, Drama, Literature and Music.

Monetary grants are presented to first, second and third place winners. First place winners may advance to compete at the National Conference for major scholarship awards.

Dance Competition Chairmen

Dr. Rayma Kirkpatrick Beal
Head of Dance Department,
University of Kentucky 1977
Twain Ridge Road
Lexington, KY 40514
859-223-8062
rkb01@uky.edu

Ms. LuAnne Pelle
1399 Beulah Court
Lexington, KY 40507
859-273-0258
lapb@excite.com

Chapter Dance Competition will be held
March 4, 2006
Barker Hall Dance Studio
University of Kentucky Campus

Career Award Winners / NSAL Kentucky / 1948-1999

Year Category Winner
1950 Music Gail Hendrix
1951 Music/Voice Alice Ward
1952 Art Beverly Davis
1954 Literature Kim Sanford
1955 Art Robert Wright
1956 Drama Eben Henson
1957 Music Nancy Lowe
1961 Art/Sculpture Frank Gunter
1962 Literature William B. Floyd
1964 Drama Matthew J. Muelhausen
1965 Dance/Ballet Sue Leachman
1966 Art Robert Cloyd
1967 L! iterature Ellen Berenton
1968 Music William E. Averett
1969 Drama Bruce Peyton
1970 Dance/Ballet Susan Holz
1971 Art/Printmaking Terry H. Mangat
1972 Literature Debbie E. Schneider
1973 Music Mary E. Clem
1974 Drama David Penn
1975 Dance/Ballet Dido Nicholson
1976 Art Susan Pronston
1977 Music/Voice Diana McCloskey
1978 Literature Melba P. Hay
1980 Dance/Ballet Sandy Cook
1981 Art/Drawing Ramsey Bell
1982 Music/Piano John Bloomfiel! d
1983 Literature Marion Douglass Anderson
1984 Drama Vickie Hayes
1985 Dance/Ballet Clinton Luckett
1986 Art/Oil Charles Lister
1987 Music/Voice Lori White
1988 Literature Rebecca Bailey
1989 Drama Ken Howard
1990 Dance/Ballet Emily Jewell
1992 Music/Cello Michael Fitzpatrick
1993 Literature Kevin Sedelmeier
1994 Drama Kelly Huck
1995 Dance/Modern Maris Berman
1996 Art/Ceramic Eric Hadley
1997 Music/Voice Daniel E. Koehn
1998 Literature Silas D. House
1999 Drama Michael Peters
2000 Dance/Ballet Ellie Bogard
2001 Art/Sculpture Meagen Kieffer
2003 Literature/Poetry Erin Keane
2004 Musical Theatre Philip Drennen