Otago University gives out arts fellowships
Burns Fellow announced
Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Otago Daily TTimes

A novelist, a painter, a dancer and a composer were given fellowships by the University of Otago today as part of its commitment to fostering the arts in New Zealand.

Prominent Banks Peninsula novelist, poet and playwright Fiona Farrell will take up the Robert Burns Fellowship; Dunedin painter Kushana Bush, the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship; Wellington dancer Lyne Pringle, the Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance; and composer Christopher Adams will take up the Mozart Fellowship for the second year running.

University of Otago College of Education children's writer in residence will be Kyle Mewburn, (right), from Central Otago.

The arts fellows would spend up to one year at Otago, Vice-Chancellor Professor David Skegg said today.