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As artistic director and choreographer, Stoner Winslett has built the Richmond Ballet into a nationally recognized professional dance company.

Richmond

The award-winning novels of Sharyn Elaine Arwood McCrumb celebrate the richness and variety of Appalachian culture.

Roanoke County

As founder and artistic director of the Latin Ballet of Virginia, Ana Ines King shares Latin American dance and culture with students and audiences across Virginia.
Recipient of the VABPW Foundation Business Leadership Award

Richmond

A dynamic and compelling conductor, JoAnn Falletta is an advocate for contemporary music.

Norfolk

Claudia Emerson received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and is Virginia's poet laureate.

Fredericksburg

Marian A. Van Landingham founded a one-of-a-kind art center in Alexandria.

Alexandria

A gifted storyteller, Lee Smith highlights the stories and voices of the Appalachian community where she was raised.

Roanoke

Patricia Buckley Moss uses the considerable commercial success she has earned as an artist to aid child-related charities and promote the use of the arts to help children with learning disabilities succeed in school and in life.

Waynesboro

Known as the "Female Elvis," Janis Martin was a pioneer rockabilly star.

Danville

Edythe C. Harrison's love of music led her to help found the Virginia Opera Association.

Norfolk