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PopImpressKA Journal attends
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA Guild
beautiful cruise up the Hudson
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Above Image: Center
Maria Soldier, one of the foundation contributors with a special Alex Soldier Prize Statue (Image Below)
Maria Soldier, Executive Director
Alex Soldier
www.alexsoldier.com
and Olga Papkovitch, CEO & Founder PopImpressKA Journal
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is a non-profit, publicly-supported foundation, headquartered in New York City and founded 33 years ago by Prince Rainier III of Monaco to honor his wife, Princess Grace’s [Kelly] legacy. The Foundation's mission is dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging talent in theater, dance, and film by awarding grants in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships. Since the Foundation’s inception, more than 800 recipients have been awarded, totaling over $11 million. Some notablePrincess Grace Awards recipients in Film include: Emmy nominee Cary Fukunaga, director of True Detective, Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre; Jon M. Chu director of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, G.I. Joeand upcoming Jem and The Holograms; Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. Theater recipients include: Tony® Award winner for Best Direction of a Play, Anna D. Shapiro; Pulitzer and Tony® Award winning playwright Tony Kushner; and Academy Award® winner Eric Simonson. Dance/Choreography recipients include: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Artistic Director Robert Battle; American Ballet Theatre’s Gillian Murphy and Isabella Boylston and New York City Ballet’s Tiler Peck; as well as choreographers Kyle Abraham and Camille A. Brown.
