FIVE ARTISTS GRANTED $50,000 ALPERT AWARDS FELLOWSHIPS AT CALARTS.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - Five artists in the prime of their careers were named Tuesday as winners of $50,000 fellowships at 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. . CalArts and 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 awarded the annual Alpert Awards to 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. An alumnus of New Dramatists, he has received playwriting fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial , a playwright, director and actor; Christian Marclay Christian Marclay (born 1955) is a visual artist and composer based in New York. Marclay is a former lecturer of video collage and sound at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducted a summer workshop. , a visual and sound artist; Lisa Nelson, choreographer, performer and videographer A person involved in the production of video material. Videographers shoot the images with a video camera (analog or digital) and may perform minimal or extensive editing of the resulting footage. ; RTMark, a group of computer artists; and Laetitia Sonami, a composer and performer. Established in 1994, the Alpert Awards are decided by independent panels in the five disciplines - dance, film and video, music, theater and the visual arts. The fellowships include a residency at CalArts in Valencia. Irene Borger, director of the awards program, called this year's winners ``gutsy and gifted rule breakers.'' Greenspan, who lives in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , is known for plays that range from vaudeville style to Greek mythology and explore such issues as sexuality, family dynamics and fantasy. Marclay's artwork includes sculpture, collage, performance, photography, video, music and sound. Also based in New York, Marclay has exhibited his works at the nation's top art museums. Dance artist Nelson, based in Vermont, has a resume that includes both solo and collaborative works. She is co-editor of Contact Quarterly, an international dance and improvisation journal. RTMark, pronounced 'art mark,' is composed of an anonymous group of artists and activists who use the Internet and other forums to mount creative protests - with targets ranging from Barbie to President George W. Bush. Sonami's latest works include ``BAGS,'' ``Conversations With a Light Bulb'' and ``Mechanical Songs Between Light and Shadows.'' She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts and Creative Work Fund.'' |
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