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
2023 Recipients
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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.
2023 Panelists
director, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
curator, Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts, Abrons Arts Center; Associate Curator, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
New York, NY
veteran independent arts writer, podcaster, editor, curator, dramaturge; founding Director of Black Diaspora
New York, NY
writer and curator; Editor-in-Chief, Seen journal (BlackStar Projects)
Brooklyn, NY
filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY
Professor of Professional Practice (Film), Columbia University and Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival
New York, NY
composer, clarinetist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY
composer/improvisor, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Henderson, NC
composer/performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA
Director of Grantmaking Programs, Theatre Communications Group and arts consultant
New York, NY
artistic director and chief executive, Fisher Center, Bard College and senior curator, Open Society University Network’s Center for the Arts and Human Rights
Annandale-on-Hudson and Brooklyn, NY
artistic director, Brown Arts Institute and Professor of the Practice, Brown University
Providence, RI
scholar, curator, Asst. Prof in African Diasporic Art History, Dept of History of Art, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
curator and cultural worker; Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
independent curator, writer, arts administrator
Santa Monica, CA
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