PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Council for the Humanities (RICH) has issued a call for nominations for its 2009 Tom Roberts Prize for Creative Achievement in the Humanities.
The annual program, named for RICH’s founding director, honors an individual or group whose work demonstrates an inventive and innovative approach to traditional fields of study.
This year’s deadline is noon on Monday, April 13. For more information or to make a nomination electronically, go to www.RIHumanities.org.
Nominations will be evaluated by an awards committee composed of RICH board and staff members. A $2,000 prize – made possible through an endowment established in 2001 – will be bestowed this fall during RICH’s annual Celebration of the Humanities.
Past winners are: 2008, Robert D. Billington, founder and president of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council; 2007, Dr. Stanley M. Aronson, dean emeritus of the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University (formerly Brown Medical School); 2006, Keith W. Stokes, executive director of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce, and Theresa Stokes, writer; 2005, Everett Dance Theatre, Providence; 2004, Marilyn Murphy Meardon, actor, performer and storyteller; 2003, Al Klyberg, director emeritus of the Rhode Island Historical Society; and 2002, Marc Joel Levitt, writer, storyteller and educator.
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) – an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEA) – is devoted to inspiring and supporting intellectual curiosity and imagination in all Rhode Islanders through lifelong learning in the humanities. Additional information is available at www.RIHumanities.org.
