ARTI Award Nominations for the 2010 Start with Art Event -- NOW AVAILABLE!

Please take a few moments to think about deserving individuals, small businesses, patrons, or corporations that have shown exemplary support of your organization or art form this past year. The ARTI Awards, presented annually at the Arts Council's Start with Art event, are a celebration and commemoration of outstanding support of the arts in our community and a perfect way to publicly recognize this outstanding support. Please make additional copies of the nomination form as needed. The deadline for nominations is Friday, August 20. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us, (317) 631-3301.

Additionally, be thinking about outstanding arts happenings or events that happened in the past year as we will again present the Artful Impact ARTI Award. This award will be presented to a company, individual, event, or activity in the past 12 months that had a significant and long-lasting impact on the arts in Indianapolis. Where the other three categories are designed to recognize life-long support of the arts, the Artful Impact award recognizes and honors something truly remarkable in the arts in the past year.

Through their generous donation of time, talent, and financial resources, ARTI Award winners increase awareness of the arts for the benefit of our city. Last year’s recipients included:

Corporate: Duke Energy (nominated by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra )
Small Business: Varnau Creative Group (nominated by Clowes Memorial Hall)
Volunteer/Patron: Eugene & Marilyn Glick (nominated by the Central Indiana Community Foundation and the Indiana Historical Society)
Artful Impact ARTI: Indianapolis Airport Authority's public art program at the Indianapolis International Airport

This year's Start with Art luncheon is set for Friday, September 3rd at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. Details about this kick-off celebration for the new arts season are forthcoming. You can purchase tickets and buy tables online beginning next week at www.indyarts.org.

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Past ARTI Award Winners