2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts
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KJazz Congratulates the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts 2023 Winners
Celebrating 29 Years and Ten Awardees for 2023.
“I’ve always loved the artists that travel the road less traveled…those are the artists that touch me.”
-Herb Alpert
The 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts winners
DANCE: Ayodele Casel, Makini (jumatatu m. poe) & Jermone Donte Beacham
FILM/VIDEO: Christopher Harris, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
MUSIC: Erin Gee, Linda May Han Oh
THEATRE: Tania El Khoury, Whitney White
VISUAL ARTS: American Artist, Park McArthur
The awards were founded and conceived by legendary musician, philanthropist and artist Herb Alpert, and his Grammy-winning vocalist wife, Lani Hall. Now in its 29th year, the HAAIA has to date been awarded to 164 artists. Each award includes a $75,000 unrestricted prize and residency at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) which administers the prize on behalf of the Herb Alpert Foundation.
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall created the Herb Alpert Foundation in 1985 and over thirty years and more than $200 million dollars later, Herb Alpert remains one of America’s most important and loyal advocates for the arts and arts education.
Among the past HAAIA winners are noted artists: Carrie Mae Weems, Taylor Mac, Suzan-Lori Parks, Julia Wolfe, Michelle Dorrance, Tania Bruguera, Kerry James Marshall, Lisa Kron, Sharon Lockhart, Ralph Lemon, Arthur Jafa, Cai Guo-Qiang, Okwui Okpokwasili and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah to name a few.
