Art Chowder July | August 2018, Issue 16 | Page 56

Arts Awards
Nominations Open Now!
A Dispatch From the Spokane Arts Commission
Melissa Huggins
SPOKANE ARTS COMMISSION
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Spokane Arts Awards
Saturday, September 29, 7 p.m.
Montvale Event Center
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ominations are now open for the annual Spokane Arts Awards, which recognize
the accomplishments of artists, arts and cultural organizations and local individuals
committed to enriching the community through the arts. Nominations can be
submitted online at spokanearts.submittable.com, using a brief form that asks the
nominator to describe why the person or group is worthy of an award in a particular
category.
“We make it as simple as possible to submit nominations,” said Melissa Huggins,
executive director of Spokane Arts, the nonprofit arts organization that organizes the
Arts Awards and promotes October Arts Month. “It’s a generous act to nominate a
peer for an award,” she said. “It may only take fifteen minutes out of your day, but it
provides a boost of encouragement, a reminder that people’s hard work is not going
unrecognized.”