How to Win: At its first public meeting of 2024, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts awarded just over $1.7 million to 161 New Jersey artists through the Individual Artist Fellowship program. This year’s fellowship cohort is the council’s largest in over 30 years.
BEACH WOMAN: Holgate writer-illustrator Sandy Gingras keeps the inspiration flowing. (Photo source: sandygingras.com)
The sole Ocean County-based recipient on the sizable awardee list was Long Beach Township’s Sandy Gingras (first G soft, second g hard), the author-artist-entrepreneur behind the How to Live book series, product line and retail shops. She was granted $4,235 for her endeavors in prose.
Gingras said the grant award came as a pleasant surprise and felt to her like the “permission to write again” she…
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