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2016 Doris Duke Artist Awards Announced

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has named the recipients of the fifth annual Doris Duke Artist Awards.

In recognition of their creative vitality and ongoing contributions to the fields of dance, jazz and theater, awardees will each receive $275,000 in flexible, multi-year funding as well as financial and legal counseling, professional development activities, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities provided by Creative Capital, DDCF’s primary partner in the awards.

In the area of jazz, the awardees are:

Dave Douglas
Fred Hersch
Wayne Horvitz
Jason Moran
Matana Roberts
Jen Shyu
Wadada Leo Smith
Henry Threadgill

With the 2016 class, DDCF will have awarded approximately $27.7 million to 101 artists
through the Doris Duke Artist Awards.

Many of these artists have been profiled on NewMusicBox and/or received support through grants from New Music USA.

FRED HERSCH: JUST HEAR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

MATANA ROBERTS: CREATIVE DEFIANCE

JEN SHYU: NO MORE SEQUINED DRESSES

WADADA LEO SMITH: DECODING ANKHRASMATION

HENRY THREADGILL: NO COMPROMISE

2015 Class of Doris Duke Artists Announced

Doris Duke Artists 2015

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the 2015 class of Doris Duke Artists. Twenty performing artists will each receive $275,000 in flexible, multi-year funding as an investment in and celebration of their ongoing contributions to the fields of contemporary dance, theater, and jazz. With this year’s class, the foundation will have awarded $22 million among 80 Doris Duke Artists since the awards program’s inception.

The 2015 Doris Duke Artists are as follows.

In jazz:

Muhal Richard Abrams
Ambrose Akinmusire
Darcy James Argue
Steve Coleman
Okkyung Lee
Yosvany Terry

In dance:

Camille A. Brown
Ronald K. Brown
Ann Carlson
Nora Chipaumire
Alonzo King
Stephen Petronio
Doug Varone

In theater:

Paul S. Flores
Cynthia Hopkins
Daniel Alexander Jones
Linda Parris-Bailey
Mildred Ruiz-Sapp
Steven Sapp
Shawn Sides

Muhal Richard Abrams, a recipient in the jazz category, commented, “This award will give me additional time and facility for expanding and exposing my work to a wide audience. It’s energizing when something like this award happens, and it encourages me to keep working hard. The variety of challenges that are inherent in the music are quite stimulating. I’m accessing a world of raw material that’s infinite, and the inexhaustibility of it is the challenge.”

The program is one of two awards offered through the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, which is part of a larger $50 million, 10-year commitment of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to empower, invest in and celebrate artists by offering flexible, multi-year funding in response to financial challenges that are specific to the performing arts and to each artist.

To learn more about the 2015 Doris Duke Artists and to view samples of each artist’s work, visit
www.ddpaa.org.

(–from the press release)