2025 Panelists
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| Name | Genre |
Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Fong | Music | 2024 |
composer
San Francisco, CA |
| Julia Wolfe | Music | 2024 |
composer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY |
| Nataki Garrett | Theatre | 2024 |
co-artistic director, One Nation/One Project
San Francisco Bay Area |
| Maria Goyanes | Theatre | 2024 |
artistic director, Woolly Mammoth Theater
Washington, DC |
| Meiyin Wang | Theatre | 2024 |
Director of Producing and Programming, Perelman Performing Arts Center
New York, NY |
| Ruth Estévez | Visual Arts | 2024 |
independent curator and writer
New York and Mexico City |
| Emily Jacir | Visual Arts | 2024 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Bethlehem and Rome |
| Tanya Lukin Linklater | Visual Arts | 2024 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Nbisiing Anishnaabeg aki |
| John Andress | Dance | 2024 |
Bill T. Jones Director and Curator of Performing Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Boston, MA |
| Stanford Makishi | Dance | 2024 |
Vice President & Artistic Director, Dance, New York City Center
New York, NY |
| Ali Rosa-Salas | Dance | 2023 |
curator, Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts, Abrons Arts Center; Associate Curator, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
New York, NY |
| Eva Yaa Asantewaa | Dance | 2023 |
veteran independent arts writer, podcaster, editor, curator, dramaturge; founding Director of Black Diaspora
New York, NY |
| Dessane Lopez Cassell | Film/Video | 2023 |
writer and curator; Editor-in-Chief, Seen journal (BlackStar Projects)
Brooklyn, NY |
| Bill Morrison | Film/Video | 2023 |
filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY |
| Richard Peña | Film/Video | 2023 |
Professor of Professional Practice (Film), Columbia University and Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival
New York, NY |
| Derek Bermel | Music | 2023 |
composer, clarinetist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Nicole Mitchell | Music | 2023 |
composer/improvisor, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Henderson, NC |
| Pamela Z | Music | 2023 |
composer/performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA |
| Emilya Cachapero | Theatre | 2023 |
Director of Grantmaking Programs, Theatre Communications Group and arts consultant
New York, NY |
| Avery Willis Hoffman | Theatre | 2023 |
artistic director, Brown Arts Institute and Professor of the Practice, Brown University
Providence, RI |
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