Arts and business kudos

The Arts & Business Council of Sacramento announced nominees this week for its annual Prelude to the Season awards, which will be handed out in October.

ABC celebrates creators and movers and shakers who prop them up, such as the Arts Executive of the Year nominees, which includes Shelly Willis of Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Kathy Fleming of Fairytale Town, and Julie Hirota of Blue Line Gallery. Artist of the Year noms are Glenn Casale, Julie Didion and Mary Youngblood.

There are 10 categories in all this year, including nods for Arts Journalism (for the record, SN&R isn’t bitter to not have made the cut, and kudos to nominees Tim Foster of the now-defunct Midtown Monthly; Dennis Spear of N Magazine; and Jonathan Carabba and Melissa Welliver of Submerge Magazine).