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
Pages
| Name | Genre |
Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Kushner | Theatre | 1995 |
playwright
New York |
| Julie Taymor | Theatre | 1995 |
film, theatre and opera director
New York |
| Elizabeth Armstrong | Visual Arts | 1995 |
curator, Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN |
| Robert Colescott | Visual Arts | 1995 |
artist, Professor, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona |
| Kiki Smith | Visual Arts | 1995 |
artist
New York |
| Trisha Brown | Dance | 1995 |
choreographer
New York, NY |
| Marda Kirn | Dance | 1995 |
director, Colorado Dance Festival
Boulder, CO |
| Donald McKayle | Dance | 1995 |
choreographer, Professor UC Irvine
Laguna Beach, CA |
| William Horrigan | Film/Video | 1995 |
curator of Media Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH |
| Ross McElwee | Film/Video | 1995 |
filmmaker, visiting lecturer Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
| Trinh T. Minh-ha | Film/Video | 1995 |
filmmaker, Professor of Women's Studies and Film UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA |
| Charles Amirkhanian | Music | 1995 |
composer, Executive Director Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA |
| Kahil El'Zabar | Music | 1995 |
percussionist and composer, Professor of University of Illinois, Chicago Circle
Chicago, IL |
| Carol Oja | Music | 1995 |
musicologist, director, Institute for Studies in American Music Brooklyn College
Chicago, IL |
| Guillermo Gomez-Peña | Theatre | 1995 |
interdisciplinary artist / cultural critic
Santa Monica, CA |
| Cheryl Chisholm | Film/Video | 1996 |
independent film curator
Atlanta, GA |
| Bruce Yonemoto | Film/Video | 1996 |
video artist
Los Angeles, CA |
| Ella Taylor | Film/Video | 1996 |
film critic
Los Angeles, CA |
| John Adams | Music | 1996 |
composer and conductor
Berkeley, CA |
| Tania León | Music | 1996 |
composer and conductor, Professor, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY |
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