Duke Arts 2023 Student Awards Ceremony
Closed To The Public
Louis Sudler Prize
Nathaniel Maxwell
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Visual Art Award: Nia Williams
The Nancy Kaneb Art History Award: Caroline Rettig
The Sue and Lee Noel Prize in the Visual Arts: Morgan Patton and Isabella Bann
The Visual & Media Studies Award: Ayesham Khan and Jingye Zhang
Cinematic Arts Outstanding Filmmaker Award: William Julien
The Rodger Frey Film Essay Award: Tessa Delgo
Creative Writing
George P. Lucaci Award for Creative Nonfiction: First prize: Maggie Wolfe, second prize: Haoning Jiang and Nima Babajani-Feremi
Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Poetry: Dylan Haston and Lauren Garbett
Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Fiction: Camden Chin
The Margaret Rose Knight Sanford Scholarship: Miranda Gershoni
Reynolds Price Award for Fiction: Emma Huang
Academy of American Poets Prize: Tyler King and Laura Boyle (Honorable Mention)
Terry Welby Tyler, Jr Award for Poetry: Tina Xia and Marina Chen
Dance
The Julia Wray Memorial Dance Award: Joey Rauch
The Clay Taliaferro Dance Award: Alyssa Shi
The Dance Writing Award: Sierra Putney and Nicole Schwartz
Music
The Ann Marie Parsons Memorial Prize: Mauro Mastrapasqua
The William Klenz Prize in Music Composition: Ethan Foote
The Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music: Nathaniel Maxwell and Francesca Herrera
The Henry Schumann Music Prize: Nathaniel Maxwell, Honorable Mentions: Courtney Dantzler, and Adam Kosinski
The Paul R. Bryan Award : David Johnston, Isabella Larsen, and Meghan Merenich
The Ciompi Quartet Award in Chamber Music: Dylan Cai, Jacob Liu, David Li, Jacob Egol, Preston Bowman, Bill Guo, Eddie Chen, Joie Jamison, and Lauren Simmons
Duke Symphony Orchestra Conductor’s Award: Jacob Egol, CJ Tyson, Sabrina Camacho, and Emma Lofgren
Theater Studies
Harold Brody Award for Excellence in Musical Theater: Blaze Gambla and Anna Shenk-Evans
John M. Clum Distinguished Theater Studies Graduate Award: Tia Smith
Alex Cohen Award: Anastacia Pogodina
Feldman Collaborator’s Award in Memory of Kenneth J. Reardon: Tia Smith
Forlines Family Theater Studies Grant: Elaine Guo
Reynolds Price Award: Johnathan Brown for his play Euphoria
The Dale B.J. Randall Award in Dramatic Literature: Tia Smith
Award for Excellence in Design or Theater Technology: Ivy Sun
Kevin Gray Musical Theater Award: Isa Mellody