2025 Panelists
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| Name | Genre |
Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gideon Lester | Theatre | 2023 |
artistic director and chief executive, Fisher Center, Bard College and senior curator, Open Society University Network’s Center for the Arts and Human Rights
Annandale-on-Hudson and Brooklyn, NY |
| Nana Adusei Poku | Visual Arts | 2023 |
scholar, curator, Asst. Prof in African Diasporic Art History, Dept of History of Art, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA |
| Jessica Hong | Visual Arts | 2023 |
curator and cultural worker; Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH |
| Joan Simon | Visual Arts | 2023 |
independent curator, writer, arts administrator
Santa Monica, CA |
| Carla Peterson | Dance | 2023 |
director, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL |
| Roya Amirsoleymani | Dance | 2022 |
artistic director & curator of public engagement, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR |
| Thomas F. DeFrantz | Dance | 2022 |
performer, professor of theatre and performance studies, Northwestern University
Chicago, IL |
| Olga Garay-English | Dance | 2022 |
international arts consultant
Los Angeles, CA |
| Romi Crawford | Film/Video | 2022 |
art historian, professor of Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Beatriz Santiago Muñoz | Film/Video | 2022 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Winner
San Juan, PR |
| Deborah Stratman | Film/Video | 2022 |
filmmaker/artist, professor of Art, University of Illinois at Chicago, Herb Alpert Award Winner
Chicago, IL |
| George Lewis | Music | 2022 |
composer, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Composition & Historical Musicology, Columbia University, Herb Alpert Award winner
New York, NY |
| Gustavo Matamoros | Music | 2022 |
composer, interdisciplinary artist, founder, Subtropics Festival
Miami, FL |
| Myra Melford | Music | 2022 |
pianist, composer, improvisor, professor, UC Berkeley, Herb Alpert Award winner
Berkeley, CA |
| Erik Ehn | Theatre | 2022 |
playwright, educator, Herb Alpert Award winner
Albuquerque, NM |
| Maria Manuela Goyanes | Theatre | 2022 |
Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, D.C. |
| Lloyd Suh | Theatre | 2022 |
playwright, Herb Alpert Award winner
South Orange, NJ |
| Cecilia Fajardo-Hill | Visual Arts | 2022 |
independent curator, art historian, writer
Los Angeles, CA |
| Eungie Joo | Visual Arts | 2022 |
Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA |
| Claire Tancons | Visual Arts | 2022 |
curator, writer, researcher
Paris, works in situ |
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