Main Photo: Shane Bryant. Gallery: Holly Caprell, Genevieve Sakas Manly, Traysie Amick, and David Lominack.
TD
Bank sponsored the 2017 Business & the Arts Partnership Awards, which were
presented in the Gunter Theatre of the Peace Center for the Performing Arts on
Monday, March 26, 2018 at the Metropolitan Arts Council (MAC) annual meeting.
TD Bank has a long-standing tradition of
financially supporting Greenville’s arts scene. Its executives and
employees give their time and resources to many philanthropic
endeavors throughout Greenville.
TD Bank Business & the Arts Partnership Awards
Business
with more than 100 employees
Winner: Pecknel Music Company, nominated by Greenville Chorale.
Nominees: Acumen IT LLC; Current Tools; Davis Audiology; Engenius Web Design; Greenfields Bagels and
Deli; Smith Moore Leatherwood; and Two Men and a Truck.
Business
with less than 100 employees
Winner: Duke Energy, nominated by South Carolina Children’s Theatre.
Nominees: Elliott Davis, LLC; Metromont; Michelin North America,
Inc.; Rolling Green Village; Ryobi Nation; and United Community Bank.
Put
Your Heart in the Arts Volunteer of the Year Award
Winner: Warren Hopper, nominated by South Carolina Children’s Theatre.
Nominees: William Brown; Maurice Cherry; Barbara Rupp; Glenn Sawicki; Allison Spinks; Nancy Stanton; and May Welborn.
MAC Awards
SmartARTS 2017 Teaching Artist Award
Winner: Shane Bryant.
Shane Bryant has been a
ceramic artist since 1993. He founded The William Felton School of Crafts in
2004 and has taught classes through Furman University’s continuing education
department, as well as the Spartanburg Museum of Art, where he was the pottery
studio manager. Bryant served as a board member for Upstate Visual Arts and
Greenville’s First Fridays. He has been listed on the South Carolina Arts
Commission Artist Roster since 2000 and has been an artist-in-residence for
many schools over the years. He has been a teaching artist for MAC’S SmartARTS
program since 2004 and is a regular participant in MAC’s Greenville Open
Studios program.
2017 MAC Visionary Award
Winner: Holly Caprell.
Holly Caprell is the 2017
recipient of the MAC Visionary Award. Caprell has been the executive director of the Greenville County Youth
Orchestras (GCYO) since 2007. GCYO has been educating young musicians for more than 40 years. Its mission is to impact the lives of young
people through music by providing a quality orchestral program that develops
and educates young musicians, one in which they learn the art of performance,
enhance personal musicianship, and prosper as individuals. GCYO is the orchestra-in-residence of the
Greenville County School District’s Fine Arts Center. During Caprell’s tenure, GCYO
has significantly expanded its offerings as well as its awareness within the
Greenville community.
Caprell received a B.A. from
Converse College in Spartanburg with a major in Psychology and
minors in Music Performance and Accounting. She is a private voice and piano teacher and the voice teacher at
Southside Christian School. In addition, Caprell does freelance work both on and
off the area theater stages.
2017 MAC Lifelong Support of the Arts Award
Winner: Genevieve Sakas Manly.
Throughout her life, Genevieve Sakas Manly has been both an artist and an arts
supporter. Manly developed a passion for dance and attended dance classes three times weekly as
a child. After college, she moved to New York to study at the
School of American Ballet. There she met
John Sakas. After their wedding, they formed a dance act
and toured the globe. The couple returned to
Greenville in 1972, and became involved in the planning phase of the South
Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities (SCGSAH). They contributed significant funding to build the Sakas Black Box Theatre inside the
John and Genevieve Sakas Center for Drama. As a long-time board member of the SCGSAH, Manly also created the
Sakas Endowment to fund costume purchases and repair. Manly has also been a donor to the Peace Center, where the restaurant/lounge in the Peace
Concert Hall is named in her honor. As a
member of the Peace family, she has firmly believed in Greenville’s arts
community and has provided a significant amount of funding to many arts and
cultural initiatives throughout her life.
Carl R. Blair Commitment to Arts Education Award
Winner: Traysie Amick.
Throughout her life,
Traysie Amick has been a teacher, imparting her talent and passion for theater
to youth throughout the Upstate. For almost 20 years, Amick has been the principal teaching artist at
the South Carolina Children’s Theatre (SCCT) where she has acted, taught, and
directed. She has developed theater curriculum for SCCT programs Know Way, Second Stage, and Wee Play Theatre. Amick designed a children’s program for Rock Hill
Community Theatre. She has also
delighted audiences in both comedic and dramatic roles at the Café & Then
Some, The Warehouse Theatre, Winthrop University Theatre, and The Distracted
Globe. Amick held an internship at
Omaha Magic Theatre, and she is an alumna of the South Carolina Governor’s
School for the Arts & Humanities.
Ann C. Sherard Young Supporter of the Arts Award
Winner: David Lominack.
David Lominack is market
president of South Carolina for TD Bank, where he is responsible for commercial
banking throughout the state. He joined the former Carolina First Bank in May 1997 as a management associate.
Upon completion of the Management Associate program, he served in a number of
management roles. From 2006-2010, Lominack served as market president for the Midlands region of South Carolina. When Carolina First was acquired by TD Bank
in 2010, Lominack returned home to become the market president for the
Upstate-Midlands region. He was appointed market president of South Carolina in
2015.
Throughout his tenure at TD
Bank, David has overseen and approved the distribution of several
million dollars in funding for the arts throughout Greenville County. TD has been a loyal supporter of
the Peace Center, Centre Stage, the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville
Little Theatre, The Warehouse Theatre, the South Carolina Children’s Theatre,
the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Artisphere,
the Greenville County Museum of Art, and MAC.
MAC Board of Directors Awards
Winners: Roger Ables and Chris Kavolus.
MAC is grateful for
the generous financial support provided by Board members Roger Ables and Chris
Kavolus. Both have been outstanding
assets to the organization and have served as strong advocates of MAC’s programs
and services throughout the Greenville community.
MAC Board of Directors Service Awards
Winners: Carolyn Coulter and Truman
Henderson.
For more than 20 years,
Carolyn Coulter and Truman Henderson have served as co-chairs of the MAC Grants
Committee. They have worked to ensure that MAC’s grants process is in compliance with guidelines set forth
by the National Endowment for the Arts and the South Carolina Arts
Commission. Their collective knowledge
has been a great asset to MAC, and they have always been fair, objective, and
egalitarian in their leadership.
MAC Board of Directors Leadership Awards
Winners: Ken Betsch and Charles
Ratterree.
Ken Betsch took the reins
as board chairman in July, 2017 when MAC hired Alice Ratterree as its new director of operations. Betsch oversaw the
most financially successful six months in MAC’s 43-year history.
Charles Ratterree is the
longest-serving MAC board chairman in the organization’s history. During his tenure, MAC experienced record
highs in funding from both the public and private sectors. All of MAC’s major programs – Greenville Open
Studios, Flat Out Under Pressure, and SmartARTS – flourished under Ratterree’s leadership.
Other MAC Awards
Also at the 2017 MAC meeting, the following individuals and organizations received
recognition for the steadfast and generous support of MAC’s programs and
services:
Campaign for the Arts 2017
Allen Tate Companies; Karen & William Brown; Canal Insurance Company
Foundation; Rosa M. Eisenstadt; Edith & Bill Hardaway; Hollingsworth Funds, Inc.; Nancy & Erwin Maddrey; Elbert W. Rogers Foundation; Susan & Michael Riordan; and Hal Weiss.
Programs and Services
BMW Manufacturing Company,
LLC; Traute E. & Roland H.
Engeler Family; SEW Eurodrive; South Carolina Arts
Commission; and Don & Zelma Waggoner
Foundation
SmartARTS Awards
Daniel-Mickel Foundation; Graham Foundation; Jolley Foundation; Robert B. and Ruth K. Lee
Foundation; Mice on Main (Linda Kelly and Zan Wells); TD Bank; and TD Charitable Foundation.
Greenville Open Studios 2017
County of Greenville; Jean T. and Heyward G.
Pelham Foundation; South State Bank; and Janette W. Wesley &
Renato Vicario
Downtown Alive 2017
Clemson University MBA
Program and Piedmont Natural Gas
Company.
Outstanding Support
City of Greenville; Greenville Health System; and Michelin North America,
Inc.
MAC Endowment for the Arts
Michelin North America,
Inc. and Janet & Steve Sumner.
Source: greenvillebusinessmag.com
