The Druid Arts Awards ceremony planned for this March has been postponed to 2025, due to unforeseen circumstances, according to the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa, which hosts the biennial celebration.

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The Druid Arts Awards honors artists, educators, volunteers and patrons of the arts in theater, dance, music, literature, and visual arts. Awards are also given for corporate sponsors, and to other contributors not falling within more specific paramaters.

The Druid Arts Awards also votes a Home Grown Award to a Tuscaloosa County native who’s received widespread recognition among peer groups nationally or internationally. Past Home Grown recipients include Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, Miami City Ballet principal dancer Jennifer Lauren Quarles, painter Evan Wilson and his brother Ransom, a flutist and conductor.

The awards were created in 1989, and held annually until 2003, when the Arts Council changed to an every-other-year format. The next ceremony will be the 25th Druid Arts Awards.

Nominations are open to public contributions, after which a board decides each season’s top picks. The awards ceremony usually follows in late winter or early spring, at either the Bama Theatre or the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, both of which are operated by the Arts Council.

For more on the Druid Arts Awards, including a list of prior recipients, and guidelines for nominations, see www.tuscarts.org/gallery-exhibits-competitions/druid-arts-awards. The 2025 nomination and celebration dates will be added later.

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