U.VA. ART PROFESSOR WINS NEA GRANT

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 26 -- Megan Marlatt, associate
professor in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of
Virginia, has received one of 21 grants awarded to artists from
around the country by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Marlatt will receive $20,000 to continue her artwork.
	Every other year the NEA awards grants to artists for
excellence in areas of painting, works on paper and other genres.
Applicants submit an application, a curriculum vitae and slides of
their work.  This year a panel of judges, consisting of four
artists, a curator and a layman, chose Marlatt's oil paintings of
kitchen scenes from a pool of 2,570 applicants.
	According to the NEA, grants support activities that
contribute to the artist's creative development and growth.  The
funds may be applied to research, travel, acquisition of materials,
creation of new work and continuation of work in progress.
	"The grant couldn't have come at a better time," said
Marlatt, who will take a semester off next year to create a new body
of work that will express a relationship between biology and
geology.  She has begun work on a painting of skies composed of
figures of women that blend with surrounding landscapes.  According
to Marlatt, this type of art expresses a relationship between
humanity and nature in "magical and mythological ways."
	Marlatt will begin receiving allotments of the grant early
in 1996.  After the second installment, she will submit a progress
report to NEA, to be followed by a final report upon the full
completion of her artwork.
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October 25, 1995
	FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, Marlatt can be reached at (804)
924-6127.