2025 Panelists
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| Name | Genre | Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| luciana achugar | Dance | 2020 |
Choreographer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, New York |
| Raelle Myrick Hodges | Theatre | 2020 |
theater director, creative director, 651 Arts
Brooklyn, New York |
| Carl Hancock Rux | Theatre | 2006 |
playwright; resident artist/ curator, Miami Performing Arts Center
Brooklyn, NY |
| Andres Serrano | Visual Arts | 1996 |
artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Derek Bermel | Music | 2019 |
Composer, Performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Leroy Jenkins | Music | 1997 |
composer
Brooklyn, NY |
| Joan Snyder | Visual Arts | 1996 |
artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Esther Robinson | Film/Video | 2012 |
film director and producer, founder, ArtHome
Brooklyn, NY |
| Derek Bermel | Music | 2012 |
Composer/clarinetist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Peggy Ahwesh | Film/Video | 2005 |
media artist, associate professor, Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College
Brooklyn, NY |
| Dessane Lopez Cassell | Film/Video | 2023 |
writer and curator; Editor-in-Chief, Seen journal (BlackStar Projects)
Brooklyn, NY |
| Derek Bermel | Music | 2023 |
composer, clarinetist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Eisa Davis | Theatre | 2014 |
playwright, composer, performer; 2012 Herb Alpert Award winner in Theatre
Brooklyn, NY |
| Mac Wellman | Theatre | 2003 |
playwright and professor, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY |
| Eugenie Tsai | Visual Arts | 2016 |
John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY |
| Tania León | Music | 1996 |
composer and conductor, Professor, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY |
| Ralph Lemon | Dance | 2017 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award winner
Brooklyn, NY |
| Derek Bermel | Music | 2018 |
musician and composer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Bertie Ferdman | Theatre | 2018 |
contemporary performance scholar, associate professor, CUNY, BMCC
Brooklyn, NY |
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