1st Annual Viola Awards
March 5, 2009

Results

Photos from the Event

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Results from the 1st Annual Viola Awards

Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
Ellen Tibbetts

Lifetime Contribution to the Arts
Don Bendel

Visual Arts
Joe Sorren

Performing Arts
Theatrikos Theatre Company

Music
Craig Yarbrough

Literature
Mary Sojourner

Business for the Arts
The Orpheum Theater

Arts Educator
Marshall Magnet Elementary School

Outstanding Arts Event
First Friday ArtWalk

Student Artist
Corrina Wall

Photographs by Kim Seiferth

Ellen Tibbetts, recipient of the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, with Viola Committee Chair, Marjorie Kamine, and FCP Board President, Ingrid Lee

Don Bendel after receiving the Viola Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Arts.

Joe Sorren accepts the Viola Award for Visual Arts from Emcees Karen Kinne-Herman (left) and Julie Pastrick (right)

Theatrikos Theatre Company with their Viola Award for Performing Arts.

Chris Scully and Thomas Hunt accept the Viola Award for Business for the Arts for The Orpheum Presents

Mary Sojourner took home the Viola Award for Literature.

Julie Pastrick with Viola Award for Music winner, Craig Yarbrough.

The Viola Award for Student Artist goes to dancer, Corrina Wall.

Staff from Marshall Magnet Elementary School accept the Viola Award for Arts Educator

Mark Arnegard and Pam Raskob from the Artists Gallery with the Viola Award for Outstanding Arts Event for the First Friday ArtWalk.

Mayor of the City of Flagstaff, Sara Presler, looks on. Mayor Presler gave a rousing speech, declaring, "A town without the arts is a town without air."

Oh, there was fun and goofiness, too. Our photographer, Kim Seiferth, is flanked in Charlie's Angels pose by Elizabeth Hellstern (left) and Erica Eiting (right) from NAU's College of Arts & Letters.

Lifetime Contibution to the Arts winner, Don Bendel, congratulates fellow ceramic artist and Mayor's Award winner, Ellen Tibbetts.

Mike Frankel, President of the Artists Coalition of Flagstaff, approves of it all.

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