{"id":67197,"date":"2025-06-12T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=67197"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:37:38","slug":"dance-professor-and-art-alumna-receive-2025-arts-science-council-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/2025\/06\/12\/dance-professor-and-art-alumna-receive-2025-arts-science-council-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Professor and Art Alumna Receive 2025 Arts &amp; Science Council Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Associate Professor of Dance <strong>Tamara Williams <\/strong>and art alumna <strong>Carolina Quintana Ocampo <\/strong>\u201921 are among the 2025 cohort of the Arts &amp; Science Council\u2019s Emerging Creator and Creative Renewal Fellowship recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emerging Creators and Creative Renewal Fellowships focus on giving artists in Mecklenburg County \u201can opportunity to explore new methodologies, to experience a resurgence of holistic creativity, and to broaden pathways towards artistic expression,\u201d the Arts &amp; Science Council (ASC) said in <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandscience.org\/investing-in-the-future-of-creativity-asc-announces-2025-emerging-creator-and-creative-renewal-cohorts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its award announcement<\/a>.&nbsp;As two of the most significant local grants for individual artists, the awards are highly competitive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1099\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL-1000x1099.jpg\" alt=\"Tamara Williams with traditional drums.\" class=\"wp-image-67205 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/1099;width:525px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL-1000x1099.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL-600x659.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL-768x844.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL-1398x1536.jpg 1398w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL-1400x1539.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL-300x330.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Tamara-with-traditional-drums_FULL.jpg 1746w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tamara Williams with traditional drums from West Africa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams is one of five artists to receive a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/artsandscience.org\/cr-fellowship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creative Renewal Fellowship<\/a><\/strong>, which supports established artists who have at least 10 years of professional experience in their discipline and \u201care at a stage in their careers where there is\u00a0a need to explore, expand, or reimagine their creative practice,\u201d the ASC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams will use the $15,000 grant to augment her dance research and performance practice with the study of Yoruba drumming. She will travel to Africa this summer to study in Benin and Nigeria, returning in December and late May 2026 to continue her work. Throughout the school&nbsp;year, she will also be traveling to Atlanta to study with Yoruba traditionalists who are masters of the West African percussive rhythms and songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/tamara-williams\/\">an artist and an academic, Williams<\/a> is dedicated to performing, researching, documenting, cultivating, and producing arts of the African Diaspora. She is a specialist in African Brazilian dance and in African American Ring Shout, both rooted in West African dance practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI&#8217;m truly excited for this new venture, which will continue to deepen my understanding and practice of Yoruba-rooted artistic practices which have branches in Brazilian and African American cultures,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/artsandscience.org\/ec-fellowship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emerging Creators Fellowship<\/a><\/strong>, first launched in 2017, supports early-career artists \u201cby providing vital resources that enable exploration, experimentation, and growth toward sustainable creative practice.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Quintana will use her $10,000 to explore new mediums for an upcoming short film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I\u2019ll be using these funds to explore different storytelling methods by taking online classes and leaning into my scrapbooking passion,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is to push the main theme of the film, which is exploring Latino American identity and finding one\u2019s place between definitions. I also plan to travel to different workshops and expos in order to gain traction and potentially find a team of artists to help me make the film in the future. It\u2019s still a big work in progress, but I\u2019m super excited about it!&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Carolina-Quintana-1000x750.jpeg\" alt=\"Carolina Quintana\" class=\"wp-image-67209 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;width:416px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Carolina-Quintana-1000x750.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Carolina-Quintana-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Carolina-Quintana-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Carolina-Quintana-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/06\/Carolina-Quintana.jpeg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quintana was a Martin Scholar at UNC Charlotte and received her BFA in Art with a concentration in Illustration. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/boldjourney.com\/meet-carolina-quintana-ocampo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent interview with the online magazine <em>Bold Journey<\/em><\/a>, she said she \u201ctook advantage of all the resources including scholarships, honors programs, and a wide variety of art classes.\u201d After graduation she continued her training through the Netflix Animation Foundations Program and a Women in Animation Mentorship Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quintana expanded her Honors Thesis project, an animated short called <em>Mi Modo<\/em>, for presentation last fall in the Department of Art &amp; Art History\u2019s 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary exhibition, <em>Generations<\/em>. In March, she screened her new animated short,<em> Salpimienta<\/em>, at the Charlotte Latino Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Dance Tamara Williams and Carolina Quintana Ocampo \u201921 are among the cohort of 10 artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":67199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"no-sidebars.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_clt_a11y_last_scan":"1778696036","_clt_a11y_has_violations":"0","_clt_a11y_violations":"[]","_clt_a11y_suppressions":"","_clt_a11y_needs_validation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,255],"tags":[51,47],"class_list":["post-67197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-art-art-history","tag-dance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dance Professor and Art Alumna Receive 2025 Arts &amp; 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