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Towson, MD (PRWEB) December 07, 2011

Bowie & Jensen would like to congratulate client Manuel Barrueco and the forty-nine other artists who were named as this years USA fellows. The Los Angeles-based arts advocacy group announced the winners Monday.

USA Fellowship grants of $ 50,000 each are awarded to outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists every year. In the last six years, USA artists have invested $ 15,000,000 in Americas finest artists. The $ 2.5 million in combined annual fellowships awarded this year dwarf all of the nations annual arts prizes except the MacArthur Fellowship, which currently antes up nearly $ 4 million a year for artists.

USA Fellowship winners can use the money as they wish and nominations come from an anonymous group of arts executives, critics, scholars and artists whose membership changes each year; five-member panels of experts in each category recommend winners to the United States Artists board.

Considered one of the greatest guitarists working today, Manuel Barrueco began playing at the age of eight, studying at the Esteban Salas Conservatory in Santiago de Cuba. Barrueco immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1967, completing his studies at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where he now teaches. Barrueco has played in some of the most important musical centers of the world and has worked with a diverse range of musicians, from Pl