DAVIS — University of California, Davis, faculty members recently received prestigious awards in art and music.

The New York City-based Joan Mitchell Foundation named art professor Annabeth Rosen among the 25 recipients of $25,000 awards in the 2011 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program.

Rosen, who joined the art studio faculty in 1997, holds the Robert Arneson Chair in Ceramic Sculpture. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, N.Y., in 1978, and a master of fine arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., in 1981.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation is named after the abstract expressionist painter and strives to fulfill her ambitions — to assist the needs of contemporary artists, and to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities. Mitchell died in 1992, and the foundation came into being the next year.

The Painters and Sculptors Grant Program dates back to the foundation’s first year, serving to acknowledge artists for creating works of exceptional quality.

Sam Nichols, a lecturer in the Department of Music, received one of two 2011 Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer Awards for New Chamber Works.

Honoring the best in American music, each award comes with a $1,000 prize and a prominent forum: a performance in the Composers Inc. concert season in San Francisco.

The Left Coast Chamber Players are set to perform Nichols’ award-winning work, "Refuge," for string quartet, during the Concerts Inc. Rifts and Refuge concert on April 24.