2025 Panelists
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| Name | Genre |
Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Adam Fong | Music | 2024 |
composer
San Francisco, CA |
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