FIVE GARNER CALARTS/ALPERT AWARDS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The Herb Alpert Foundation, in collaboration with 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 fourth annual CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Five early-midcareer artists in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theater and the visual arts will receive grants of $50,000 each and are invited to participate in a teaching residency at CalArts during their award year. This year's recipients are: Jeanne C. Finley (film/video), Joanna Haigood (dance), Danny Hoch (theater), Roni Horn (visual arts) and Pamela Z (music). The awards will be presented May 16 at the Herb Alpert Foundation in Santa Monica. The CalArts/Alpert Awards were established in 1994 by Alpert, a musician, record producer and philanthropist, in partnership with CalArts and its president, Steven Lavine. The awards are given to artists who might be thought of as ``early-midcareer'' rather than to well-established practitioners or those at the beginning of their creative lives. The goal of the awards is to support exceptionally talented and committed artists to take more risks and project their work to new and wider audiences. One unique aspect of the award is that nominees and panelists are asked to evaluate the social and cultural context of the artwork. ``I've always believed that the arts are not a luxury, but a necessity,'' Alpert said. ``I've also always been committed to helping individuals who use their work and their art to help others - people who show a strong social conscience. With these awards, we're planting and nurturing some seeds, not only in the artists who receive the grants, but in the students they themselves might teach and nurture in the future.'' Recipients were chosen by five judges who are artists or art professionals selected for their range, artistic accomplishment and integrity. CalArts, founded in 1961, is the first institution of higher learning in the U.S. specifically for students interested in pursuing degrees in all areas of the visual and performing arts. Alpert, whose foundation gives $2 million a year to a variety of programs in the arts, hopes the awards will be a model to other corporations, foundations and artists. The following are profiles of the 1998 CalArts/Alpert Award recipients: Finley has had her work shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the 1993 and 1995 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, and on public television. She has received Fulbright, Guggenheim and NEA artist fellowships. Born in 1955 in Los Angeles, she received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university, one of the ten campuses of the University of California. , and her master of fine arts Noun 1. Master of Fine Arts - a master's degree in fine arts MFA master's degree - an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree degree in photography from the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. . Currently living 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. , she has been a professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. in Oakland since 1990. Haigood's latest work, ``Invisible Wings,'' was inspired by the history of an underground railroad site in Massachusetts, now the home of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American modern dancer Ted Shawn in 1930, and three years later it became the home of his Men . ``Invisible Wings'' will premiere at the festival this summer. Born in 1957 in Sagamihara, Japan, and currently living in San Francisco, Haigood attended the London School of Contemporary Dance and received a bachelor of arts degree from Bard College. In 1980, she founded her company, Zaccho Dance Theater. She has received commissions from the Festival D'Avignon in France, the Walker Art Center and Dancing in the Streets, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. , the California Arts Council The California Arts Council is a state agency governed by an 11-member council appointed by the Governor and the state Legislature to advance the state through the arts and creativity, with an emphasis on children and under-served communities. and Meet the Composer Meet the Composer is an American organization founded in 1974 by the composer John Duffy as a project of the New York State Council on the Arts. It seeks to assist composers in making a living through writing music by sponsoring commissioning, residency, education, and audience . Hoch is a writer, actor and teacher, who was a rapper, break dancer, drug dealer, street mime and magician by the time of his bar mitzvah. At the age of 19, he was a full-time faculty member at NYU, bringing high-conflict, high-impact, volatile interactive improvisational theater into detention centers, alternative high schools and jails. Hock lives in New York City, where he will be performing his new work, ``Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop,'' at Public School 122 this spring. Born in 1970, Hoch is a holder of the NEA Solo Theater Fellowship and was given a 1994 Obie Award for Distinguished Performance for ``Some People,'' his 12-character solo work, which was subsequently broadcast on HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy . Horn explores self-identity through its relation to language, context and space in her drawings, sculpture, photography and installations. Her work has been shown widely throughout Europe and at the Mary Boone, Leo Castelli and Mathew Marks galleries in New York. Major group exhibitions include the Venice and Whitney Biennials and Documenta, Kassel, Germany. Born in 1955 in New York City, she received a bachelor of fine arts The Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. Also named in some countries the Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) One of the most eminent fine arts colleges in the U.S., located in Providence, R.I. It was founded in 1877 but did not offer college-level instruction until 1932. and a master of fine arts degree from Yale University. Horn is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pamela Z is a composer and performer in San Francisco, where she creates live solo-performance pieces and makes scores for dance, film/video and radio. A graduate of the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1956, she is the recipient of grants from Meet the Composer and the California Arts Council, has received commissions from the People's Commissioning Project Grant and the California E.A.R. Unit, and will perform a new work in May at the Bang-the-Can Festival in New York City. |
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