New York-based artist Gladys Triana has won one of the most prestigious prizes in Cuban art -- the Cintas Foundation Emilio Sánchez Award in Visual Arts.

Also receiving a Cintas award at a Wednesday night ceremony at the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University was Canada-based composer Sergio Barroso, who won the Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition.

Each award carries $15,000 to be used for career development.

The Cintas Foundation also presented its 2009 Lifetime Service Award to long-time Miami-Dade artist, arts administrator and librarian Margarita Cano, who played a key role in developing the collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System.

Lifetime-achievement awards went to the late artist Ana Mendieta and to composer Aurelio de la Vega.

This was a second Cintas win for the 72-year-old Triana. Her winning photographic entries Stillness and The Observer -- and the artwork of finalists Tania Bruguera, Carlos Estévez, Ivan Toth Depeña, Ignacio Lang, Cristina Lei Rodríguez, and Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova -- will be exhibited until Aug. 23 at the museum on FIU's Tamiami campus.

The awards were established in 1963 with funds from the estate of Oscar B. Cintas, a former Cuban ambassador to the United States, to help Cuban artists living outside the island develop their careers.

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