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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| Name | Genre |
Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charmaine Warren | Dance | 2024 |
Founder/Artistic Director, Black Dance Stories; Dance on the Lawn-Montclair Dance Festival; Producer, DanceAfrica@BAM; former curator, E-Moves Harlem Stage
Montclair, NJ |
| Pablo de Ocampo | Film/Video | 2024 |
Director and Curator of Moving Image, Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN |
| Arthur Jafa | Film/Video | 2024 |
artist, filmmaker, theorist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Los Angeles, CA |
| Leslie Thornton | Film/Video | 2024 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Croton-on-Hudson, NY |
| Steve Coleman | Music | 2024 |
musician, composer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Allentown, PA |
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