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The CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts was established in the 1994 by The Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

(CalArts). The foundation provides $50,000 annual fellowship to five artists in the field of film and video, visual arts, theatre, dance, and music.

Year	Film/Video	Visual Arts	Theatre	Dance	Music
1995	Leslie Thornton	Mel Chin Mel Chin Mel Chin is a conceptual visual artist. Motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances, Chin works in a variety of art media to calculate meaning in modern life. Chin places art in landscapes, in public spaces, and in gallery and museum exhibitions, but his work is not limited...	Rezah Abdoh	Ann Carlson Ann Carlson Ann Carlson is an American dancer, choreographer and performance artist whose work explores contemporary social issues. She has performed through the United States an internationally and has won a number of awards....	James Carter James Carter (musician) James Carter is an American jazz musician.Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan and learned to play there before moving to New York City. He has been prominent as a performer and recording artist on the jazz scene since the mid-1990s, playing saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet...
1996	Su Friedrich Su Friedrich Su Friedrich is an American avant-garde filmmaker.- Biography :Friedrich graduated from Oberlin College in 1975 and made her first film, Hot Water, in 1978...	Carrie Mae Weems Carrie Mae Weems Carrie Mae Weems is an award-winning photographer and artist. Her photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity...	Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.-Early years:...	David Rousseve	Anne LeBaron Anne LeBaron Alice Anne LeBaron is an United States composer and harpist.-Biography:Anne LeBaron holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama , an M.A. in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook , and a D.M.A. from Columbia University...
1997	Craig Baldwin Craig Baldwin Craig Baldwin is an American experimental filmmaker. He uses “found” footage from the fringes of popular consciousness as well as images from the mass media to undermine and transform the traditional documentary, infusing it with the energy of high-speed montage and a provocative commentary that...	Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago...	Lisa Kron Lisa Kron Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron is an American actress and playwright.-Biography:Kron was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She jokes in one of her plays that her life began on her parents’ trip to Europe: “I was conceived in Venice, you know...	Victoria Marks Victoria Marks Victoria Marks is a professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995...	Chen Yi Chen Yi (composer) Chen Yi is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She is also a violinist....
1998	Jeanne C. Finley	Roni Horn Roni Horn Roni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York and lives and works in New York...	Danny Hoch Danny Hoch Danny Hoch is an American writer, director and performance artist. He has acted in larger roles in independent and art house movies and had a few small roles in mainstream Hollywood films, with increasing exposure as in 2007's We Own the Night...	Joanna Haigood	Pamela Z Pamela Z Pamela Z is an American composer, performer, and audio artist who works primarily with her voice and live electronic processing.-Music career:...
1999	Lourdes Portillo Lourdes Portillo Lourdes Portillo is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also created video installations and written for the stage...	Pepon Osorio Pepon Osorio Pepón Osorio is a Latino artist.He was educated at the Universidad Inter-Americana, Puerto Rico, Lehman College, and graduated from Columbia University with an MA in 1985....	Brian Freeman Brian Freeman (disambiguation) Brian Freeman may refer to:Brian Freeman, American horror and fiction author from PennsylvaniaBrian Freeman , founded gay theatre troup Pomo Afro Homos*Brian Freeman...	Ralph Lemon Ralph Lemon Ralph Lemon was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lemon has been classified as many things; an African American dancer, a choreographer, company director, a writer and a visual artist but he chooses to categorize himself as a conceptualist. He was raised in a religious environment where as a child...	George Lewis George Lewis George Lewis may refer to:George Lowys or Lewis , mayor of WinchelseaGeorge Lewis , track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago*George Lewis , New Orleans jazz clarinettist...
2000	Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R...	Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat شیرین نشاط is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.-Background:Neshat's parents were upper middle-class...	W. David Hancock W. David Hancock -Life:Hancock graduated from the University of Iowa Playwriting workshop, with an MFA. His play The Convention of Cartography was performed in 1994 by The Foundry Theatre at a gallery in Chelsea...	Mark Dendy	Steve Coleman Steve Coleman Steve Coleman, born , is an African American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader. His music and concepts have been a heavy influence on contemporary jazz.-Chicago:...
2001	Ellen Bruno	Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese contemporary artist and curator.-Biography:Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. He was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy from 1981 to 1985. Cai's work is scholarly and often politically charged...	Erik Ehn Erik Ehn Erik Ehn is an American playwright and director known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. The former dean of theater at CalArts, the California Institute of Arts, he is head of playwriting and professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University...	John Kelly John Kelly - People :* John Kelly of Killanne , leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in Wexford* John Kelly , Congregational minister* John Larry Kelly, Jr. , originator of the Kelly criterion...	Zhou Long Zhou Long Zhou Long is a Pulitzer-prize-winning Chinese American composer.-Biography:Born into an artistic family, Zhou Long began studying piano from an early age. Due to the artistic restrictions implemented during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to delay his piano studies and live on a state-run...
2002	®TM	Christian Marclay Christian Marclay Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...	David Greenspan David Greenspan David Greenspan is an award-winning American actor and playwright. In 1997 he received an Obie Award for his work in the off-broadway revival of Boys in the Band....	Lisa Nelson	Laetitia Sonami
2003	Coco Fusco Coco Fusco Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer who began her career in 1988. Fusco has performed and curated throughout America and internationally, and currently is full-time faculty in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design...	Catherine Opie Catherine Opie Catherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in...	Carl Hancock Rux Carl Hancock Rux ‎Carl Hancock Rux is an award winning writer and performer; former Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts and has taught or been in residence at University of California–San Diego, Stanford University, University of Massachusetts Amherst,...	Rennie Harris Rennie Harris Rennie Harris is a dancer, choreographer, artistic director and professor of Hip-hop dance. Harris formed the first and longest running hip-hop dance touring company, Rennie Harris Puremovement in 1992...	Vijay Iyer Vijay Iyer Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, producer, electronic musician, and writer based in New York City.-Biography:Born in 1971 and raised in Rochester, New York, Vijay Iyer is the son of Indian Tamil immigrants to the US. He received 15 years of Western classical training on violin...
2004	Renee Takima-Pena	Catherine Sullivan Catherine Sullivan Catherine Sullivan is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines video and performance.She was educated at the California Institute of Arts and the Art Center College of Design...	Dan Hurlin	Stephan Koplowitz	Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers...
2005	Jem Cohen Jem Cohen Jem Alan Cohen is an award-winning New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats and collaborations with music artists. He is the recipient of the Independent Spirit Award and many first place awards for feature filmmaking...	Harrell Fletcher Harrell Fletcher Harrell Fletcher is an American artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects.-Early work:While completing his degree at California College of Arts and Crafts, Fletcher began collaborating with artist Jon Rubin...	Naomi Iizuka Naomi Iizuka Naomi Iizuka is a playwright. Iizuka's works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background.Iizuka's mother is an American Latina and her father is a Japanese banker. Born in Tokyo, Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, Holland, and Washington, D.C., United...	Donna Uchizono	David Dunn David Dunn David John Ian Dunn is an English footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Blackburn Rovers.-Blackburn Rovers:...
2006	Bill Morrison Bill Morrison (director) Bill Morrison is a New York-based filmmaker and artist, best known for his experimental collage film Decasia . He is a member of Ridge Theater and the founder of Hypnotic Pictures...	Jim Hodges Jim Hodges (artist) Jim Hodges is a New York-based installation artist.Hodges was born in Spokane, Washington in 1957. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fort Wright College in 1980 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1986.Since the late 1980s, Hodges has...	Daniel Alexander Jones	Sarah Michelson	Lawrence D. Morris
2007	Jacqueline Goss	Walid Raad Walid Raad Walid Raad is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad....	Cynthia Hopkins	Jeanine Durning	Mark Feldman Mark Feldman Mark Feldman is an American jazz violinist.Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973 to 1980, and in Nashville, Tennessee from 1980 to 1986. He worked in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. Feldman often works with John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, John Abercrombie, The Masada String Trio, Dave...
2008	Bruce McClure	Bryon Kim	Lisa D'Amour Lisa D'Amour Lisa D'Amour is an Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who resides in New York. Ms. D'Amour is an alumnus of New Dramatists....	Pat Graney	Derek Bermal
2009	Paul Chan Paul Chan Paul Chan Mo Po, MH, JP is the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong . He is an accountant and the former President of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants . He holds a BBA and a MBA degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong...	Paul Pfeiffer	Rinde Eckert	Reggie Wilson	John King John King -Politics:John King, 1st Baron Kingston , Irish peerJohn King, 3rd Baron Kingston , Irish peer*John King, 2nd Baron King , English MP and peer...
2010	Jim Trainor	Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison is a sculptor based in New York.Harrison's work has been seen in many exhibitions including:‘Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Beck’ at Arndt & Partner in Berlin,...	Bill Talen	Susan Rethorst	Lukas Ligeti Lukas Ligeti Lukas Ligeti is a composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical, and various world musics.- Background :...
2011	Natalia Almada	Emily Jacir Emily Jacir Emily Jacir is a Palestinian artist. Born in Bethlehem, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She divides her time between New York and Ramallah....	Marc Bamuthi Joseph	Jess Curtis	Nicole Mitchell Nicole Mitchell (musician) Nicole Mitchell is an American jazz flautist and former president of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians .-Biography:...

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