Alpert Awards in the Arts

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The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts [1] was established in the 1994 by The Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts. The Herb Alpert Foundation, which included then-present Kip Cohen, and benefactors Herbert and Lani Alpert, approached then-CalArts president Steven Lavine with the proposition of providing young artists studying at the institute opportunities to engage with current American artists. This would be a forum to provide them with the best possible professional training. CalArts previously established a relationship with Herb Alpert from his support of the jazz program at the School of Music.

Initially, the Alpert Foundation provided a $50,000 award to five early mid-career artists. Artist are selected in the disciplines of dance, film and video, music, theatre, and visual arts, each representative of five of the six schools at CalArts. In order to be selected for the award, there is a two-tier process of nominators and panelists. Each year, the CalArts faculty determines fifty artists and art professionals as nominators to select two artist each. 100 artists are then invited to apply to award, which will be judged by panel of three experts in each discipline (15 total). According to the foundation, the awards are chosen by a panel of experts and are given to risk-taking artists typically in their mid-careers. The foundation attempts to identify artists who were sensitive to the artist's potential contribution to society. Awardees spend a week at CalArts, lecturing, offering classes, and meeting individually with current students. In addition to the residency, recipients have also shown or performed their work at CalArts' professional arts theater, REDCAT, in downtown Los Angeles.

In 2010, the foundation in increased its annual fellowship to $75,000. In 2021, the Foundation increased the number of recipients to two in each discipline, comprising with a total of ten awardees each year.

YearFilm/VideoVisual ArtsTheatreDanceMusic
1995 Leslie Thornton Mel Chin Reza Abdoh Ann Carlson James Carter
1996 Su Friedrich Carrie Mae Weems Suzan-Lori Parks David Roussève Anne LeBaron
1997 Craig Baldwin Kerry James Marshall Lisa Kron Victoria Marks Chen Yi
1998 Jeanne C. Finley Roni Horn Danny Hoch Joanna Haigood Pamela Z
1999 Lourdes Portillo Pepon Osorio Brian Freeman Ralph Lemon George Lewis
2000 Peggy Ahwesh Shirin Neshat W. David Hancock Mark Dendy Steve Coleman
2001 Ellen Bruno Cai Guo-Qiang Erik Ehn John Kelly Zhou Long
2002 RTMark Christian Marclay David Greenspan Lisa Nelson Laetitia Sonami
2003 Coco Fusco Catherine Opie Carl Hancock Rux Rennie Harris Vijay Iyer
2004 Renee Tajima-Peña Catherine Sullivan Dan Hurlin Stephan Koplowitz Miya Masaoka
2005 Jem Cohen Harrell Fletcher Naomi Iizuka Donna Uchizono David Dunn
2006 Bill Morrison Jim Hodges Daniel Alexander Jones Sarah Michelson Lawrence D. Morris
2007Jacqueline Goss Walid Raad Cynthia Hopkins Jeanine Durning Mark Feldman
2008 Bruce McClure Byron Kim Lisa D'Amour Pat Graney Derek Bermel
2009 Paul Chan Paul Pfeiffer Rinde EckertReggie Wilson John King
2010 [2] Jim Trainor Rachel Harrison Bill Talen Susan Rethorst Lukas Ligeti
2011 [3] Natalia Almada Emily Jacir Marc Bamuthi Joseph Jess Curtis Nicole Mitchell
2012Kevin Everson Michael Smith Eisa Davis Nora Chipaumire Myra Melford
2013 Lucien Castaing-Taylor Sharon Hayes Pavol Liska & Kelly CopperJulia RhoadsAlex Mincek
2014 Deborah Stratman Daniel Joseph Martinez Annie Dorsen Michelle Dorrance Matana Roberts
2015 [4] [5] Sharon Lockhart Tania Bruguera Taylor Mac Maria Hassabi Julia Wolfe
2016 Cauleen Smith Simone Leigh Anne Washburn Ishmael Houston-Jones Dohee Lee
2017 Kerry Tribe Amy Franceschini Daniel Fish luciana achugar Eve Beglarian
2018 Arthur Jafa Michael Rakowitz Robert O'Hara Okwui Okpokwasili Courtney Bryan
2019 Beatriz Santiago Muñoz Cecilia Vicuña Lloyd Suh Pam Tanowitz Meshell Ndegeocello
2020 [6] Sky Hopinka Firelei Báez Phil Soltanoff Karen Sherman Christian Scott
2021 Kahlil Joseph, Adam Khalil Tanya Lukin Linklater, Steffani Jemison Kimber Lee, Kaneza SchaalBeth Gill, Will Rawls David Virelles, Toshi Reagon
2022Bani Khoshnoudi, Terence Nance Guadalupe Maravilla, Martine Syms Virginia Grise, Aleshea Harris Nia Love, Yanira Castro Tomeka Reid, Cory Smythe
2023Christopher Harris, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich American Artist, Park McArthur Whitney White, Tania El Khoury Makini [jumatatu m. poe] and Jermone Donte Beacham, Ayodele Casel Erin Gee, Linda May Han Oh
2024 Lucy Raven, Nuotama Bodomo Marie Watt, Marina Rosenfeld Cannupa Hanska Luger, Robin Frohardt Mariana Valencia, Jonathan González Huang Ruo, Anna Webber

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