CALARTS/ALPERT WINNERS CHOSEN.Byline: Daily News The Herb Alpert Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB Foundation, in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , has announced the recipients of the third annual CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Five artists in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theater and the visual arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → will receive $50,000 apiece. The ceremony will be held Sunday at the home of CalArts President Steven D. Lavine. This year's recipients are: Victoria Marks (dance) creates choreography for stage and film, incorporating the meanings that movement carries. She is an assistant professor of choreography and performance at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . Craig Baldwin (film/video) is an independent filmmaker, programmer and media archeologist living in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden who incorporates footage from the mass media into his work. Chen Yi (music), a member of the composition faculty at the Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. in Baltimore, was trained as a violinist in the European classical tradition and came in contact with Chinese folk music when she was forced to relocate to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. Celebrated in China as a major new composer during the increasingly open cultural climate of the 1980s, Chen Yi came to the United States in 1986 to continue her musical studies. Lisa Kron (theater) writes and enacts solo-performance pieces, and she characterizes her own work as ``straightforward, reportorial and intimate.'' Grappling with social, cultural and gender politics of autobiography, Kron makes pieces that are observant and humorous. She lives in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall (October 17, 1955- ) is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (visual arts), an artist who is also associate professor of art at the University of Illinois at Chicago This article is about the University of Illinois at Chicago. For other uses, see University of Illinois at Chicago (disambiguation). UIC participates in NCAA Division I Horizon League competition as the UIC Flames in several sports, most notably Basketball. , creates large, figurative paintings, generally made in acrylic on unstretched canvas, as well as smaller, iconic portraits. He engages in symbolism and allegory to depict aspects of African-American history and folklore. The awards are given to people whose work might influence artists early in their careers, rather than to well-established practitioners. The recipients were chosen by a panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
The CalArts/Alpert Awards in the Arts is administered by Program Director Irene Borger. Award recipients are asked to design and take part in a short residency at CalArts. One aspect of the qualifications considered by the foundation is the artist's attention to social issues, and applicants are asked to describe their work in relation to issues of social responsibility. ``It's exciting for me to try to do small things well - especially things that affect individuals,'' Herb Alpert said. ``We're planting some seeds here and hope that other people, other corporations, foundations, other artists will replicate this program, use it as a model. The arts are not a luxury - they are a necessity.'' Alpert, whose foundation gives $2 million a year to a variety of arts programs in schools and communities, hopes that the awards will ``open some doors and, most of all, allow the artists to reach down a little further and find something they haven't discovered yet.'' Of the awards program and its third set of recipients, Lavine reflected: ``These award recipients give all great hope for the arts in the United States. They are doing what artists have always done: forging voices and visions true to their own experience and commensurate with our historical moment.'' |
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