PARKERSBURG — Recipients of the first Donna Campbell Award for Excellence and the Janet Frazier Awards for Excellence have been announced by Artsbridge.

The Donna Campbell student scholarship recipient is Jesse Eaton, a senior at Parkersburg High School.

The winner of the Janet Frazier Teacher Awards are: Scott Tignor, Ravenswood High School band teacher in the High School Fine Arts Teacher category; and Danielle Taylor, Neale Elementary School general music and choir teacher in the Elementary/Middle School Fine Arts Teacher category.

Eaton will receive a $1,000 scholarship. He will study fine arts at the college level. Any high school senior that is planning to pursue fine arts in college is eligible to apply for this new scholarship.

Each of the teacher winners, who will receive $500 for supplies for their classroom, were selected in a nomination process as anyone can nominate their favorite fine arts teacher. Tignor was nominated by a student and Taylor was nominated by a parent.

The selection process will begin again in the fall.

Both the Donna Campbell Award and the Janet Frazier Award were made possible by a fund established by Artsbridge by Parkersburg native Luke Frazier, the founder and director of the American Pops Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Both awards are named after Frazier’s grandmothers.

Several individuals have also made donations to Artsbridge in support of these award funds.

Frazier handpicked the panel of scholarship readers from his own teachers and mentors and it consists of arts educators and advocates who have inspired and impacted his music career. Several entries were made this year and Artsbridge is hoping for more in the coming years as the awards become more well known.

For the last two years Frazier has brought the American Pops Orchestra to the Mid-Ohio Valley to perform in the Artsbridge Arts Tours. In the fall of 2018-19, it presented a tour of local schools with a production of “A Very Silly Vaudeville.” In the fall of the 2019-20 school year, it produced “The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.”

In addition to the school performances, free public concerts were held at WVU-Parkersburg. The plan is to return this fall of 2020 with another school tour and another public performance.