{"id":13282,"date":"2021-09-27T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T20:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=13282"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T20:38:10","slug":"artist-aron-belka-named-the-inaugural-cohn-gnof-nola-arts-award-program-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/artist-aron-belka-named-the-inaugural-cohn-gnof-nola-arts-award-program-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Aron Belka Named the Inaugural COHN | GNOF | NOLA | ARTS Award Program Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Annual Awards Program makes grants to local nonprofits and awards a $10,000 grant to the selected artist our group whose work challenges and inspires the community<\/em><\/p>\n

The Greater New Orleans Foundation<\/strong> has announced artist Aron Belka as the inaugural COHN | GNOF | NOLA | ARTS Award program winner. As the winner, Belka will receive $10,000 and be honored at a special reception at the Greater New Orleans Foundation\u2019s Center for Philanthropy. Today\u2019s announcement falls on the centennial anniversary of the birth of Dr. Isidore Cohn, Jr. one hundred years ago on September 25, 1921, The COHN | GNOF | NOLA | ARTS\u00a0 Award is made possible due to a generous bequest from Marianne and Dr. Isidore Cohn, Jr.\u00a0 Due to COVID-19, the reception honoring Mr. Belka has been postponed until the Spring of 2022.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with this announcement, the Foundation also announced COHN | GNOF | NOLA | ARTS awards from the Dr. and Mrs. Isidore Cohn, Jr. fund that will be made to the Ellis Marsalis Center, Cafe Reconcile, the Arts Council of New Orleans, The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), and the Isidore Cohn, Jr., MD Student Learning Center at the LSU Health Science Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to announce artist Aron Belka as the inaugural COHN | GNOF | NOLA | ARTS Award winner,\u201d\u00a0said Andy Kopplin, President and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAron was selected, because he is a true example of a brilliant New Orleans artist whose work inspires and challenges us to reflect on society’s hardest questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The COHN | GNOF | NOLA | ARTS Award is made annually on September 25 to nonprofits supporting the arts through education and community programs, and also includes a special award presented to an individual artist or group from our region whose work in the visual arts, performance, music, or culinary arts is judged to best exemplify how the arts can challenge and inspire us, and in so doing, enrich our lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fitting that as we celebrate what would have been our father\u2019s 100th birthday, we get to remember him through this award,\u201d\u00a0said Ian J. Cohn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWe see, by extension, that in funding arts education, as well as supporting the careers of [young] artists, Dad and Marianne\u2019s everlasting gift to the New Orleans community will be in the development of new talent, new voices, and new ideas, with art, performance, music, and culinary arts a thread connecting one generation to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an honor to have my work recognized and to receive this award,\u201d\u00a0said artist Aron Belka<\/strong>. \u201cThe unique traditions and culture of New Orleans have greatly inspired my work and it has been a privilege to highlight the \u201coverlooked\u201d and underserved of this region. I look forward to lifting up the voices of those that are often not heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can read a conversation between Ian J. Cohn\u00a0 and Aron Belka here<\/a> and visit Belka’s gallery here<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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