Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship

Annual and Honorary Fellowships

Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship

Established in 2012

The Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship, administered by the California Institute of the Arts and funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation, seeks to identify those artists who contribute “something significant — even visionary — to contemporary life.” It supports non-New York artists in the interdisciplinary, film/video, and playwriting fields.

Most recent recipient

Sage Ni'Ja Whitson 2023

Past recipients

Rea Tajiri, Luis Arnías, Ifa Bayeza, Hồng-Ân Trương 2022

Sky Hopinka, William E. Jones, Stanya Kahn, Jodie Mack, Allison Orr, Julie Tolentino 2021

Cassils 2019

Christopher Harris, Margaret Honda, Ethan Lipton, Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Shontina Vernon 2018

John Gianvito, Dayna Hanson 2017

Jesse McLean 2016

Tammy Marie Dudman, Matthew Porterfield, christopher sullivan 2015

Jeffrey Becker, Miwa Matreyek, Kathy Randels, Ben Russell 2014

Tamiko Thiel 2013

Jim Finn, Kirk Lynn 2012

Caden Manson 2011

Hasan Elahi, James Hong, Deborah Stratman 2010

Bill Brown, Sharon Lockhart 2009

Charlotte Meehan 2008

Victoria Funari, Melanie Marnich, Jason Samuels Smith 2007

Gaelen Hanson, Keith Hennessy, Eddo Stern 2006

David Ryan 2005

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