ARTS NEWS: Recipients of the USA Knight Fellowship announced

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ARTS NEWS: Recipients of the USA Knight Fellowship announced

POSTED: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 6:00 PM

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One of Pliessnig's designs

Congrats are in order for Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel, Dan Rothenberg and Dito van Reigersberg of Pig Iron Theatre Co., and local furniture designer Matthias Pliessnig, who will each receive the unrestricted $50,000 2010 USA Knight Fellowship we mentioned several weeks back. They are two groups in only 50 across the country to receive funds from the foundation's million-dollar grant to fund the arts in local communities. Here's a little background in case you don't already know: Pig Iron was founded in 1995 and has toured around the globe. Their purpose is to create form-blending pan-genre theatrical works integrating dance, dialogue and mixed-media. They are currently preparing for their annual Blowout Benefit Cabaret and Auction in January. Matthias Pliessnig is an independent, bent-wood furniture designer, and has been featured in Design Philadelphia, Forbes Life, American Craft and more. He has had exhibits in Philadelphia, New York, Madison, Baltimore — and appeared in a festival in Milan. He works primarily with steamed bent-wood strips (and 3-D modeling software) to create post-nautical modernist furniture.

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