The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts[1] was established in the 1994 by The Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts. The Herb Alpert Foundation, which included then-present Kip Cohen, and benefactors Herbert and Lani Alpert, approached then-CalArts president Steven Lavine with the proposition of providing young artists studying at the institute opportunities to engage with current American artists. This would be a forum to provide them with the best possible professional training. CalArts previously established a relationship with Herb Alpert from his support of the jazz program at the School of Music.
Initially, the Alpert Foundation provided a $50,000 award to five early mid-career artists. Artist are selected in the disciplines of dance, film and video, music, theatre, and visual arts, each representative of five of the six schools schools at CalArts. In order to be selected for the award, there is a two-tier process of nominators and panelists. Each year, the CalArts faculty determines fifty artists and art professionals as nominators to select two artist each. 100 artists are then invited to apply to award, which will be judged by panel of three experts in each discipline (15 total). According to the foundation, the awards are chosen by a panel of experts and are given to risk-taking artists typically in their mid-careers. The foundation attempts to identify artists who were sensitive to the artist's potential contribution to society. Awardees spend a week at CalArts, lecturing, offering classes, and meeting individually with current students. In addition to the residency, recipients have also shown or performed their work at CalArts' professional arts theater, REDCAT, in downtown Los Angeles.
In 2010, the foundation in increased its annual fellowship to $75,000. In 2021, the Foundation increased the number of recipients to two in each discipline, comprising with a total of ten awardees each year.
Year
Film/Video
Visual Arts
Theatre
Dance
Music
1995
Leslie Thornton
Mel Chin
Reza Abdoh
Ann Carlson
James Carter
1996
Su Friedrich
Carrie Mae Weems
Suzan-Lori Parks
David Roussève
Anne LeBaron
1997
Craig Baldwin
Kerry James Marshall
Lisa Kron
Victoria Marks
Chen Yi
1998
Jeanne C. Finley
Roni Horn
Danny Hoch
Joanna Haigood
Pamela Z
1999
Lourdes Portillo
Pepon Osorio
Brian Freeman
Ralph Lemon
George Lewis
2000
Peggy Ahwesh
Shirin Neshat
W. David Hancock
Mark Dendy
Steve Coleman
2001
Ellen Bruno
Cai Guo-Qiang
Erik Ehn
John Kelly
Zhou Long
2002
RTMark
Christian Marclay
David Greenspan
Lisa Nelson
Laetitia Sonami
2003
Coco Fusco
Catherine Opie
Carl Hancock Rux
Rennie Harris
Vijay Iyer
2004
Renee Tajima-Peña
Catherine Sullivan
Dan Hurlin
Stephan Koplowitz
Miya Masaoka
2005
Jem Cohen
Harrell Fletcher
Naomi Iizuka
Donna Uchizono
David Dunn
2006
Bill Morrison
Jim Hodges
Daniel Alexander Jones
Sarah Michelson
Lawrence D. Morris
2007
Jacqueline Goss
Walid Raad
Cynthia Hopkins
Jeanine Durning
Mark Feldman
2008
Bruce McClure
Byron Kim
Lisa D'Amour
Pat Graney
Derek Bermel
2009
Paul Chan
Paul Pfeiffer
Rinde Eckert
Reggie Wilson
John King
2010[2]
Jim Trainor
Rachel Harrison
Bill Talen
Susan Rethorst
Lukas Ligeti
2011[3]
Natalia Almada
Emily Jacir
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Jess Curtis
Nicole Mitchell
2012
Kevin Everson
Michael Smith
Eisa Davis
Nora Chipaumire
Myra Melford
2013
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Sharon Hayes
Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper
Julia Rhoads
Alex Mincek
2014
Deborah Stratman
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Annie Dorsen
Michelle Dorrance
Matana Roberts
2015[4][5]
Sharon Lockhart
Tania Bruguera
Taylor Mac
Maria Hassabi
Julia Wolfe
2016
Cauleen Smith
Simone Leigh
Anne Washburn
Ishmael Houston-Jones
Dohee Lee
2017
Kerry Tribe
Amy Franceschini
Daniel Fish
luciana achugar
Eve Beglarian
2018
Arthur Jafa
Michael Rakowitz
Robert O'Hara
Okwui Okpokwasili
Courtney Bryan
2019
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Cecilia Vicuña
Lloyd Suh
Pam Tanowitz
Meshell Ndegeocello
2020[6]
Sky Hopinka
Firelei Báez
Phil Soltanoff
Karen Sherman
Christian Scott
2021
Kahlil Joseph, Adam Khalil
Tanya Lukin Linklater, Steffani Jemison
Kimber Lee, Kaneza Schaal
Beth Gill, Will Rawls
David Virelles, Toshi Reagon
2022
Bani Khoshnoudi, Terence Nance
Guadalupe Maravilla, Martine Syms
Virginia Grise, Aleshea Harris
Nia Love, Yanira Castro
Tomeka Reid, Cory Smythe
2023
Christopher Harris, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
American Artist, Park McArthur
Whitney White, Tania El Khoury
Makini [jumatatu m. poe] and Jermone Donte Beacham, Ayodele Casel
Erin Gee, Linda May Han Oh
2024
Lucy Raven, Nuotama Bodomo
Marie Watt, Marina Rosenfeld
Cannupa Hanska Luger, Robin Frohardt
Mariana Valencia, Jonathan González
Huang Ruo, Anna Webber
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