Avantika Bawa is the 2014 recipient of the Oregon Arts Commission’s honorary Joan Shipley Award. Bawa leads a group of 13 Oregon artists selected from a pool of more than 190 applicants from 35 Oregon cities for the OAC’s 2014 Individual Artist Fellowships. The 2014 fellowships, awarded to artists from Portland, Eugene and Enterprise, support artists working in visual arts and design.
