The Doris Duke Artist Award is undertaken by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and designed to "empower, invest in and celebrate artists by offering multi-year, unrestricted funding as a response to financial and funding challenges both unique to the performing arts and to each grantee".[1] Started in 2011, the program supports artists in jazz, theatre, and contemporary dance.[2][3]
The Doris Duke Artist Award now offers up to $575,000 of individual support ($550,000 in unrestricted funding and up to $25,000 to artists who have demonstrated that they are saving towards later years of their career). The prize was $275,000 until it was doubled 2023 in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the program and Doris Duke Foundation's continued commitment to supporting individual performing artists.[4] Two classes of Doris Duke Impact Awards totaling $80,000 were made in 2014 and 2015, but the program was discontinued after that.
Eligibility
Individuals are nominated for the award by nominators who are experts in the fields DDCF funds, as well as by previous Doris Duke Artists, and become eligible for the Award when they have won at least three designated national or regional grants, awards, or accolades. An anonymous panel reviews all eligible artists and recommends a class of recipients every year.
Recipients
2024 Artist Award Recipients[5]
2023 Arts Award Recipients [6]
2021 Arts Award Recipients[7]
2020 Artist Award Recipients[8]
2019 Artist Award Recipients[9]
2018 Artist Award Recipients[10]
2016 Artist Award Recipients[11]
2015 Artist Award Recipients
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2015 Impact Award Recipients[13]
2014 Artist Award Recipients[14]
2014 Impact Award Recipients[15]
2013 Artist Award Recipients[16]
2012 Artist Award Recipients
- Anne Bogart, theatre
- Don Byron, jazz
- Wally Cardona, dance
- Rinde Eckert, theatre
- Bill Frisell, jazz
- Deborah Hay, dance
- John Hollenbeck, jazz
- Vijay Iyer, jazz
- Marc Bamuthi Joseph, theatre
- Elizabeth LeCompte, theatre
- Young Jean Lee, theatre
- Ralph Lemon, dance
- Richard Maxwell, theatre
- Sarah Michelson, dance
- Bebe Miller, dance
- Nicole Mitchell, jazz
- Meredith Monk, dance
- Eiko Otake, dance
- Takashi Koma Otake, dance
- Basil Twist, theatre
- Reggie Wilson, dance[17]
References