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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.

Announcements

Jun 18, 2024
Watch Here The 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts winners DANCE: Jonathan González, Mariana Valencia FILM/VIDEO: Nuotama Bodomo, Lucy Raven MUSIC: Huang Ruo, Anna Webber THEATRE: Robin Frohardt, Cannupa Hanska Luger VISUAL ARTS: Marina Rosenfeld, Marie Watt    
2023 Herb Alpert Award Winners: Ayodele Casel, Makini (jumatatu m. poe) and Jermone Donte Beacham, Christopher Harris, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Erin Gee, Linda May Han Oh, Tania El Khoury, Whitney White, American Artist, Park McArthur
Jul 19, 2023
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
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

2025 Panelists

Dance
Yanira Castro
Joanna Haigood
Gideon Lester
interdisciplinary artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY)
Choreographer, Artistic Director, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA
Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Fisher Center at Bard
Annandale-on-Hudson and Brooklyn, NY
Film/Video
Christopher Harris
Alexandra Juhasz
Bani Khoshnoudi
artist/filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Professor of Visual Arts, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
scholar, maker, and teacher of activist media, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY
artist/filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Mexico City, Mexico and Paris, France
Music
Eve Beglarian
Tomeka Reid
David Virelles
composer, performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York and Vermont
cellist, composer, improvisor, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Chicago, IL
pianist, composer, record producer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY
Theatre
Carra Martinez
Tom Sellar
Seema Sueko-Low
Senior Director of Artistic Programs, YoungArts
Miami, FL
Editor, Theater magazine and Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University
New Haven, CT and Brooklyn, NY
theatre artist, director, consultant, co-curator DNAWORKS
Honolulu, HI
Visual Arts
Katherine C. M. Adams
Tim Griffin
Paul Ha
Curator and writer; Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
Executive Director, The Industry
Los Angeles, CA
Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) List Visual Arts Center
Cambridge, MA