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 2006

— 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

Selected by the Alpert Award Theatre panel


We are pleased to announce the recipients of the second

— DANCE —


— FILM / VIDEO —

— THEATRE—
Founded in 1907 and situated on 450 acres of woodlands and fields in Peterborough, New Hampshire, 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. Fellows include architects, composers, film and video makers, writers and interdisciplinary and visual artists.
www.macdowellcolony.org

Recommended by the Alpert Award panels and selected by MacDowell panelists


We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2006


- 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 artists and composers a year. Housed in the 1897 buildings which were Chicago architect Howard Van Doren ShawÕs summer home, Ragdale is known for its combination of welcoming domestic spaces, open prairie and supportive artistic community. Twelve residents at a time enjoy uninterrupted time in which to think, renew and create new work away from the demands of daily life.
www.ragdale.org
Selected by the Alpert Award Music panel




— MUSIC—

— VISUAL ARTS—


The Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize, now in its sixth year, is a collaboration between the Ucross Foundation of Wyoming, an artistsÕ 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
Selected by respective AAIA panels