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Stockton Graduate Receives Fellowship Award from New Jersey Council on the Arts

 

Photographer Sean Fitzgerald Among 32 Outstanding New Jersey Artists

 

For Immediate Release

Friday, January 28, 2005

Contact: Tim Kelly

Dottie Munro

Stockton Public Relations

(609) 652-4950

 

GALLOWAY TWP., N.J. Stockton Alumnus and Visual Arts major, Sean Fitzgerald, was among 32 New Jersey artists to receive fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts.

 

Fitzgerald, who received a fellowship for photography, graduated cum laude with program distinction in his major and a 3.8 cumulative GPA in December of 2002. The 32 Fellowship recipients were chosen out of an original pool of 523 applicants.

 

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is a division of Cultural Affairs in the New Jersey Department of State. The Councils Fellowship program was created to assist the states artists advance their artistry. Evaluation criterion for a Fellowship award is artistic excellence.

 

Other Fellowship recipients from the south Jersey region include Skeffington Thomas of Bridgeton, Constance Bridges of Egg Harbor Township, and Christine Salvatore of Brigantine.