2025 Panelists
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| Name | Genre |
Year |
Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Guillermoprieto | Dance | 2021 |
reporter/writer
Bogotá, Colombia |
| nora chipaumire | Dance | 2021 |
choreographer, dancer, Herb Alpert Award winner
New York |
| Gideon Lester | Dance | 2021 |
artistic director, 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 |
| Almudena Escobar López | Film/Video | 2021 |
independent curator, scholar, archivist, and researcher, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
Rochester, NY |
| Alexandra Juhasz | Film/Video | 2021 |
scholar, maker, and teacher of activist media, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY |
| Renee Tajima-Peña | Film/Video | 2021 |
filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award winner, Professor of Asian American Studies, director of the Center for EthnoCommunications, UCLA
Los Angeles |
| Courtney Bryan | Music | 2021 |
composer-pianist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, The Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music, Newcomb College in the School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University
New Orleans |
| Vijay Iyer | Music | 2021 |
composer-pianist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, Harvard University
New York |
| Miya Masaoka | Music | 2021 |
composer, sound artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Associate Professor, Director, Sound Art Program, Columbia University
New York |
| Eisa Davis | Theatre | 2021 |
playwright, singer, composer, actor, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, New York |
| Dan Hurlin | Theatre | 2021 |
theater maker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York |
| Naomi Iizuka | Theatre | 2021 |
playwright, professor, head of graduate playwriting, University of California, San Diego, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Diego, CA |
| Emily Jacir | Visual Arts | 2021 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Dar Jacir for Art and Research
Bethlehem |
| Valerie Cassel Oliver | Visual Arts | 2021 |
Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA |
| Michael Rakowitz | Visual Arts | 2021 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies, Northwestern University
Chicago |
| Naima Keith | Visual Arts | 2020 |
vice-president, Education and Public Programs, LACMA
Los Angeles |
| Rizvana Bradley | Film/Video | 2020 |
assistant professor, History of Art, and African-American Studies, Yale University
New Haven, CT |
| Bruce Jenkins | Film/Video | 2020 |
professor of Film, Video, New Media and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Roya Rastegar | Film/Video | 2020 |
filmmaker and curator, PhD. History of Consciousness
Los Angeles, CA |
| Molly Barth | Music | 2020 |
flutist, professor, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN |
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