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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
Sharon Bridgforth,
Austin, TX
Hedgebrook is a retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island—48
beautiful acres where writers working in all genres come from all over the
world to write, rejuvenate and be in community with each other. Writers
stay in one of six handcrafted cottages from two weeks to two months at
no cost to the writer, and gather in the farmhouse kitchen to share a
home-cooked meal in the evenings.
In 2008, Hedgebrook celebrates 20 years of nurturing and amplifying
women’s voices—building an international community of more than
1,000 women who have experienced Hedgebrook’s radical hospitality,
and connecting their work with readers and audiences. Imagine the ripple
effect, as thousands more readers and audiences experience these
writers’ visions.
www.hedgebrook.org
Selected by respective AAIA panels
The recipients of the
Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship
Dance
Donald Byrd, Seattle, WA
Theatre
Charlotte Meehan, Norton, MA
Film/Video
Joan Braderman, Northampton, MA
Bill Brown, Lubbock, TX
Peter Hutton, Tivoli, NY
Sharon Lockhart, Los Angeles
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 AAIA panels in their discipline and chosen by MacDowell panelists
Alpert/Ragdale Prize
in music composition
Eve Beglarian, New York
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 Shaw’s 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/Ucross Residency Prize
Music
John Luther Adams, Fairbanks, AK
Larry Karush, Los Angeles
Bun-Ching Lam, Poestenkill, NY
Visual Arts
Lyle Ashton Harris, New York
Rodney McMillian, Los Angeles
Joel Tauber, Los Angeles
Located on a 22,000-acre working cattle ranch in northeastern
Wyoming, the Ucross Foundation is an internationally known retreat for
artists, writers, and composers working in all creative disciplines.
Founded in 1981, it provides living accommodations, studio space,
uninterrupted time, and the experience of the extraordinary High
Plains landscape to approximately 90 individuals each year. Twenty-two
visual artists and composers have been supported by Ucross/Alpert
Residency Prizes during the past five years. A recipient of the Wyoming
Governor’s Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts, Ucross aims to cast a
reflection into the future from the cultural mirror of our lives and times.
www.ucrossfoundation.org
Selected by respective AAIA panels
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