Building on our successful on-going collaboration with the Ucross Foundation, we are delighted to announce three pilot programs that will enable us to recognize a larger number of the talented and committed Alpert Award nominees. With the generosity of Hedgebrook, The MacDowell Colony, and Ragdale (as with Ucross), each artist chosen for a residency prize will be awarded both a one-month stay and transportation stipend funded by the respective colony.




We are pleased to announce the recipient of the first

— awarded to a woman playwright —


Hedgebrook, a non-profit organization inspiring women to author change, runs a retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, an hour north of Seattle. The retreat is known for the talent and mix of its artists, charming individual wood frame cottages, and time in which to write, as well as take part in a small vital community. With days free, the six writers-in-residence at the same time join one another for the communal dinner in the farmhouse dining room.

Hedgebrook invests in women who write by providing them with the space and time to create significant work in solitude and community, and by developing an international network to connect writers and audiences.

www.hedgebrook.org

Chosen by AAIA Theatre Panel 2005: Anita Stewart, Caridad Svich, Kent Thompson


Recommended by Alpert Award panels and selected by MacDowell panelists
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the first

— DANCE —


— FILM / VIDEO —
Founded in 1907, The MacDowell Colony nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of imagination. Situated on 450 acres of New Hampshire woodland, the Colony awards more than 250 Fellowships each year. Fellowships include room, board, and exclusive use of one of 32 private studios; artists may also seek other types of financial aid. Architects, composers, filmmakers, writers, and interdisciplinary and visual artists are invited to apply.
www.macdowellcolony.org

AAIA Dance Panel 2005: Garth Fagan, Wendy Rogers, Debra Singer
AAIA Film/Video Panel 2005: Peggy Ahwesh, Jeanne C. Finley, Art Jones


We are pleased to announce the recipient of the first


- in music composition -

Located in Lake Forest, Illinois. one hour north of Chicago, Ragdale is the fourth largest artist community in the country, serving 200 writers, visual arts and composers a year. Housed in the 1897 buildings which were Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s summer home, Ragdale is known for it combination of welcoming domestic spaces, open prairie and supportive artistic community. Twelve residents at a time enjoy uninterrupted time in which to think, work, renew and create new work away from the demands of daily life.
www.ragdale.org

Chosen by AAIA Music Panel 2005: Kyle Gann, Gustavo Matamoros, Zeena Parkins




— MUSIC—

— VISUAL ARTS—


The Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize, now in its fifth year, is a collaboration between the Ucross Foundation of Wyoming, an artists’ colony located on a 22,000-acre working cattle ranch, and the Alpert Award. It reflects the desire of both organizations to support the individual creative spirit and the process by which dedicated artists deepen their work. Alpert Music and Visual Arts panels* each select three people.

www.ucrossfoundation.org

* Music Panel 2005: Kyle Gann, Gustavo Matamoros, Zeena Parkins
* Visual Arts Panel 2005: Julie Ault, Jacquelynn Baas, Linda Connor