The Connecticut Sea Grant announced two recipients for its 2018 CT Sea Grant Arts Support Awards Program this week — Lillianna Marie Baczeski of New Haven and Kristian Brevik of Burlington, Vt. Each will receive up to $1,000 to help fund proposed art installations to promote public awareness of the marine environment in southeastern Connecticut. Now in its eighth year, the CT Sea Grant Arts Support Awards Program has helped a handful of artists develop and display work pertaining to this goal. Selected from 10 applicants, both artists will, over the coming year, develop their projects — two sculptural installations, one of illuminated Right Whale sculptures, another of found coastal objects (both natural and discarded) — for display in an exhibit at the University of Connecticut’s Avery Point campus next summer. Currently on view at the Avery Point Marine Science Building is a sculptural installation by artists Diane Barceló and Ashby Carlisle — 2017’s recipients of the Sea Grant award. The show is expected to run through the end of the year.