PROVIDENCE – Trinity Repertory Company says three local residents will be honored at its 2019 Pell Awards Gala on June 3.
Storyteller Valerie Tutson will receive the Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts. Central Falls High School teacher Deloris Davis Grant will receive the Charles Sullivan Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts. The Pell Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Arts will go to Rosanne Somerson, president of the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Additional honorees will be announced at a later date.
Trinity Rep’s 2019 Pell Awards Gala will be held on June 3 at the WaterFire Arts Center in Providence. The annual fundraising event is co-chaired by Sally Lapides and Art Solomon and Alison and Larry Eichler.
“I am thrilled to be honoring Val, Deloris and Rosanne at this year’s Pell Awards,” said Curt Columbus, artistic director of Trinity Rep. “Not only are each deserving for their years of work and dedication to the arts and community efforts alone; even more importantly, they exemplify what it means to be a woman in leadership. Their impact is worldwide, but we are so lucky to count them among our neighbors. It is with great pleasure that we honor these three extraordinary women for their voices, visions and service to Rhode Island.”
Trinity Rep’s Pell Awards were established in 1997 to honor the legacy of the late Claiborne Pell, who served as a U.S. senator from Rhode Island for six terms from 1961 to 1997, and recognize artistic excellence in Rhode Island and the New England region as well as on the national level.
