Brose Partington was awarded an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship grant during a reception in Broad Ripple on Tuesday. In its 3rd year, the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship was designed to increase awareness and the importance of the contemporary visual arts in central Indiana. The fellowship is intended to reward creativity and to encourage emerging and established visual artists by supporting their artistic development.

The fellowship will all Brose to buy technology, including programmable controllers and motors, to make his art more interactive. In addition, the award will help him defray the cost of traveling to Basel, Switzerland and Istanbul, Turkey, where he is exhibiting installations later in 2007.

The four other recipients of the grant were: Lucinda Devlin - photographer, Brian McCutcheon - sculptor, Casey Roberts - painter, Tom Torluemke - sculptor