Pahmeier receives Governor’s Arts Award
Gailmarie Pahmeier teaching a poetry class. Photo by Jean Dixon.
The Nevada Arts Council has announced its recipients for the 27th Annual Governor’s Arts Awards including Gailmarie Pahmeier, English lecturer and poet, who was recognized in the “Excellence in the Arts” category.
Award recipients will be honored at a reception and ceremony with performances at Nightingale Concert Hall, Mar. 22, 2007.
Pahmeier is recognized for her art and poetry. Her works include With Respect for Distance and What Emma Loves published by Black Rock Press and The House on Breakaheart Road published by the University of Nevada Press.
Pahmeier has also received the Chamber Memorial Award, the Paumonok Poetry Award, a Witter Bynner Foundation Poetry Fellowship, two Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowships and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Pahmeier has received the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the University Distinguished Teacher Award.
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary in 2007, the Nevada Arts Council was founded as a state agency charged with developing and promoting the arts in Nevada. Other recipients of the 2007 Governor’s Arts Awards include Jill Berryman (Leadership in the Arts: Individuals); David Bugli (Distinguished Service to the Arts); Jim Nichols (Patronage in the Arts); Great Basin Arts & Entertainment (Leadership in the Arts: Organizations); Mexico Vivo (Excellence in Folk and Traditional Arts); Nevada Ballet Theatre (Distinguished Service to the Arts); and, The Rainbow Company Youth Theatre (Leadership in the Arts: Education).
Zanny Marsh, public relations director, can be reached at zmarsh@unr.edu.
