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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
2025 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.
Announcements
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
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
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
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
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
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
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