Deadline for voting: Monday, August 25
In several categories, nominees were selected by City Weekly staff, freelance arts contributors and members of the Utah arts community as a guideline for reader picks. In all categories, write-in votes are welcome and encouraged.
Check back for the winners coming in the September 11th Issue!
| BEST PAINTER Trent Call Sri Whipple Lenka Konopasek BEST MIXED MEDIA ARTIST/SCULPTOR Adam Bateman Shawn Porter Cordell Taylor BEST ILLUSTRATOR Pat Bagley Leia Bell Dave Chisholm BEST PHOTOGRAPHY Teresa Flowers Cat Palmer Shalee Cooper BEST THEATER PERFORMANCE Effie Johnson, The Heiress David Spencer, The Tricky Part Duane Stephens, Saturdays Voyeur 2008 BEST PLAY Mike Dorrell, Talking Wales III Mary Dickson, Exposed Nancy Borgenicht & Allen Nevins, Saturdays Voyeur 2008 BEST PRODUCTION The Vertical Hour Gutenberg! The Musical The Clean House BEST DANCE PRODUCTION/PERFORMANCE Alchemy Nine Sinatra Songs Revenge of Yoga the Musical BEST INDIVIDUAL DANCER Christiana Bennett Erin Lehua Brown Nicholas Cendese Natosha Washington BEST CHOREOGRAPHER Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Lost (from Alchemy) Stephen Brown, Revenge of Yoga the Musical Peggy Dolkas, Yes, But How Did You Get There? (from Innovations) |
BEST CLASSICAL/OPERA PERFORMANCE (no nominees) BEST LOCAL COMEDIAN Greg Kyte Marcus Collin Williams BEST IMPROV TROUPE Off The Wall Laughing Stock QuickWits BEST NON-FICTION BOOK Always a Cowboy, Will Bagley Bargaining for Eden, Stephen Trimble Trespass: Living on the Edge of the Promised Land, Amy Irvine BEST FICTION BOOK The Losers Guide to Life and Love, A.E. Cannon The Last Cowgirl, Jana Richman Sweethearts, Sara Zarr BEST POETRY COLLECTION Fault, Katharine Coles A Metaphorical God, Kimberly Johnson Hand Me My Shadow, N. Colwell Snell SHORT FILM Kick Like a Girl, Jenny Mackenzie Pajama Gladiator, Glenn Harmon & BYU Animation Program Testimony, Michael Cox FASHION DESIGNER Keith Bryce Cheryl Forester & Cassia Nielsen Danny Nappi JEWELRY DESIGNER Laura Besterfeldt Shanna Brady Allison Dayton HAIR STYLIST (no nominees) TATTOO ARTIST (no nominees) |
