ART + ARCHITECTURE
to have such a caring and generous artist calling Los Angeles home. In addition
to the $75,000 award, the chosen artists participate in a weeklong residency at
CalArts, where they share their experiences with some of the brightest and most
committed arts students in the country.
During the course of the 22-year program, some notable recipients include:
Ann Carlson—Dance (1995)
Video excerpts from Doggie Hamlet.
Dancer/choreographer/performance
artist Carlson’s work has been seen in
theaters, galleries and museums, as well
as in hotels, swimming pools and landscapes throughout the US, Europe and
Mexico. Her recent work, Doggie Hamlet, is a full-length outdoor performance
spectacle that weaves dance, music,
visual and theatrical elements with
aspects from competitive sheep herding
trials. Four dancers, one boy, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs and a flock of sheep in a 30 x 50
foot fenced field perform the work.
Paul Chan—Film/Video (2009)
From a performance of Waiting for Godot in New
Orleans, November 2007.
A multidisciplinary artist who is
difficult to define, Chan’s work
engages with fundamental themes
including politics, poetry, war and
death. His project Waiting for Godot
in New Orleans, which took place
in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina, was an act of art defeating
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