Watch the Highlights of the 2023 Virtual Celebration
The 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts winners:
DANCE: Ayodele Casel, Makini (jumatatu m. poe) and Jermone Donte Beacham
FILM/VIDEO: Christopher Harris, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
MUSIC: Erin Gee, Linda May Han Oh
THEATRE: Tania El Khoury, Whitney White
VISUAL ARTS: American Artist, Park McArthur
2024 Recipients
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What is the Herb Alpert Award?
The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is an unrestricted prize of $75,000 given annually to risk-taking mid-career artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre and the visual arts.
The prize was initiated and funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation and has been administered by California Institute of the Arts since 1994. The Herb Alpert Award honors and supports artists respected for their creativity, ingenuity, and bodies of work, at a moment in their lives when they are poised to propel their art in new and unpredictable directions. The Herb Alpert Award recognizes experimenters who are making something that matters within and beyond their field.
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Apr 19, 2023
May 4, 2022
Watch the Highlights of the 2022 Virtual Celebration
The 2022 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts winners
DANCE: Yanira Castro, nia love
FILM/VIDEO: Bani Khoshnoudi, Terence Nance
MUSIC: Tomeka Reid, Cory Smythe
THEATRE: Aleshea Harris, Virginia Grise
VISUAL ARTS: Guadalupe Maravilla, Martine Syms
May 4, 2022
For the past 28 years, the Herb Alpert Foundation and the California Institute of the Arts have awarded $75,000 prizes to five artists in the fields of Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Theater and Film/Video. Twenty 22 is now the third year that the honor has gone to 10 artists, two in each category, in recognition of the burden the pandemic has placed on artists. Today, May 4, 2022, the winners of this year’s Herb Alpert Award in the Arts are to be officially announced.
2024 Panelists
Bill T. Jones Director and Curator of Performing Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Boston, MA
Vice President & Artistic Director, Dance, New York City Center
New York, NY
Founder/Artistic Director, Black Dance Stories; Dance on the Lawn-Montclair Dance Festival; Producer, DanceAfrica@BAM; former curator, E-Moves Harlem Stage
Montclair, NJ
Director and Curator of Moving Image, Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
artist, filmmaker, theorist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Los Angeles, CA
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Croton-on-Hudson, NY
musician, composer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Allentown, PA
composer
San Francisco, CA
composer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY
co-artistic director, One Nation/One Project
San Francisco Bay Area
artistic director, Woolly Mammoth Theater
Washington, DC
Director of Producing and Programming, Perelman Performing Arts Center
New York, NY
independent curator and writer
New York and Mexico City
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Bethlehem and Rome
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Nbisiing Anishnaabeg aki
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