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In the spirit of the partnership between
The Herb Alpert Foundation and CalArts, the Alpert Award has
developed collaborative relationships with five residency
programs, all of whom honor and support talented artists,
and their forays into the unknown.
Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency
Prize
awarded to a woman playwright
Dael Orlandersmith
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. Days free, the six writers-inresidence
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 AAIA Theatre panel
The recipients of the
Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship
Jason Samuels Smith
Sam Green
Lauren Weedman
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
Alpert/Ragdale Prize
in music composition
Carlos Rafael Rivera
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 respective AAIA panels
Alpert/Sacatar Prize
in Film/Video
Sarah Jane Lapp
The Instituto Sacatar, in Bahia, Brazil, provides unstructured time, space and an awe-inspiring location for creative individuals in all disciplines to develop new work as well as a sense of personal and aesthetic renewal. Their 2 1Ú2 acre pastoral site includes a native saltwater scrub forest, coconut grove and a secluded white sand beach.
The Instituto Sacatar encourages artists to work simply and directly with few complex tools, materials or technologies, and to experience the local African-Brazilian culture, deepening their residency experience and perhaps affecting both their work and world-view.
www.sacatar.org
Selected by AAIA Film/Video panel
Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize
Music
Tim Berne
Shelley Hirsch
Carla Kihlstedt
Visual Arts
Steven Badgett
Amy Sillman
Anne Wilson
The Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize, now in its seventh 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
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