2025 Panelists
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| Name | Genre | Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garth Fagan | Dance | 2005 |
choreographer, founder/ artistic director, Garth Fagan Dance
Rochester, NY |
| Almudena Escobar López | Film/Video | 2021 |
independent curator, scholar, archivist, and researcher, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
Rochester, NY |
| Emily Jacir | Visual Arts | 2017 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award winner
Rome, Italy, and Bethlehem, Palestine |
| Anthony Davis | Music | 2013 |
Composer, University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA |
| Naomi Iizuka | Theatre | 2021 |
playwright, professor, head of graduate playwriting, University of California, San Diego, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Diego, CA |
| Steven Schick | Music | 2003 |
percussionist, professor of music, University of California, San Diego; artistic director, Centre International de Percussion de Genève
San Diego, CA |
| Anthony Davis | Music | 2007 |
composer, professor, UC San Diego
San Diego, CA |
| George E. Lewis | Music | 1998 |
composer, trombonist and professor of music, University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA |
| Zeinabu irene Davis | Film/Video | 2004 |
filmmaker and professor, University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA |
| Naomi Iizuka | Theatre | 2015 |
playwright, head of MFA playwriting, University of California, Herb Alpert Artist
San Diego, CA |
| Natalia Almada | Film/Video | 2018 |
filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco |
| Eungie Joo | Film/Video | 2018 |
curator of contemporary art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco |
| Nataki Garrett | Theatre | 2024 |
co-artistic director, One Nation/One Project
San Francisco Bay Area |
| Adam Fong | Music | 2024 |
composer
San Francisco, CA |
| Gary Garrels | Visual Arts | 1996 |
chief curator and curator of painting and sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA |
| Stephen Gong | Film/Video | 2017 |
executive director, Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA |
| Eungie Joo | Visual Arts | 2022 |
Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA |
| Joanna Haigood | Dance | 2016 |
artistic director, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Herb Alpert Award winner 1998
San Francisco, CA |
| Pamela Z | Music | 2019 |
Composer/Performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA |
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