Tina Fey Among 2025 Pell Awards Honorees
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Tina Fey Among 2025 Pell Awards Honorees
Tina Fey and Kelli O’Hara are being recognized with Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Locally, Bernadet V. Pitts-Wiley will be receiving the Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts; Loren M. Spears will be the recipient of the Pell Award for Leadership in the Arts.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe award ceremony is going to be held on June 10 at the Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University.
According to Trinity:
Trinity Rep established the Pell Awards in 1997 to honor artists whose artistic careers exemplify the values of Senator Claiborne Pell, one of the principal founders of the National Endowment for the Arts. Throughout his life, Senator Pell worked to support the arts and provide new opportunities for artists.
He sponsored the landmark legislation that established the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities in 1965 and chaired the Senate Education and Arts subcommittee. The Pell Awards honor Senator Claiborne Pell and recognize artistic excellence in Rhode Island, the New England region, and nationally.
The Pell Awards’ criteria include excellence in the artist’s chosen field, work that significantly advances their chosen art form, and contribution to the betterment of the community and the world at large through artistic presence and community service.