The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is an unrestricted prize of $75,000 given annually to five risk-taking mid-career artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre and the visual arts.
Herb Alpert Artists include Suzan-Lori Parks, Christian Marclay, Carrie Mae Weems, Vijay Iyer, Shirin Neshat, Cai Guo-Qiang, John Kelly, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Lisa Kron, Bill Morrison, George Lewis, Emily Jacir, Paul Chan, Myra Melford…
“The thing that’s beautiful about being an artist is that you get to be in the exact moment of your life when you are creating. How do we protect it?”Herb Alpert