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.
Playwright and Herb Alpert Artist Suzan-Lori Parks ('96) is being honored with the 2014 Horton Foote Prize, for her new work, “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3)” which opens at New York's Public Theatre in October.