Joyce Award Winners
Past Joyce Awards have spanned the visual, performing, new media, and multi-disciplinary arts and have fostered impactful collaborations between artists, Great Lakes organizations, and communities.
The Joyce Awards has also been catalytic in advancing the career of artists working across disciplines. A distinct feature of funded projects is the requirement that artists and host institutions include a robust community engagement strategy in their project plan, which often informs the project from the initial concept through the final presentation.
All Joyce Award Winners
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Edra Soto With The Sculpture Center
2024 Joyce Awards: La Distancia – an outdoor sculptural installation and immersive gallery exhibition exploring themes of displacement, diasporic identity, and memory through place-based interventions.
Andrea Assaf With The Arab American National Museum
2024 Joyce Awards: DRONE – an ambitious live theatre production that confronts the militarized use of drone technology, interrogating the ethics of remote-control warfare and foregrounding the human cost of war.
Terry Guest With Chicago Children's Theatre
2024 Joyce Awards: Milo Imagines the World, a new musical adapted from the eponymous children’s book that addresses the impact of incarceration on families while fostering resilience and healing.
Marcus Elliot With The Detroit Parks Coalition
2024 Joyce Awards: Sounds from the Park – a suite of site-specific musical works composed to illuminate the diverse stories, histories, and cultures of Detroit’s parks and their surrounding neighborhoods.
Katie Ka Vang With Theater Mu
2024 Joyce Awards: Hmong Futures – a new theater project illuminating the diverse stories of the Hmong diaspora in Minneapolis-Saint Paul and reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Hmong and Southeast Asian resettlement in the United States.
Regina Agu With Museum Of Contemporary Photography At Columbia College Chicago
Regina Agu & Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago are one of the five winners of the 2023 Joyce Awards, which lift up collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Marisa Morán Jahn With National Public Housing Museum
Marisa Morán Jahn and National Public Housing Museum are one of the five winners of the 2023 Joyce Awards, which lift up collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Sonny Mehta With Mandala South Asian Performing Arts
Sonny Mehta and Mandala South Asian Performing Arts are one of the five winners of the 2023 Joyce Awards, which lift up collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Marlena Myles With Franconia Sculpture Park
Marlena Myles with Franconia Sculpture Park are one of the five winners of the 2023 Joyce Awards, which lift up collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Julie Tolentino With Spaces
Julie Tolentino and SPACES are one of the five winners of the 2023 Joyce Awards, which lift up collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Nancy García Loza With National Museum Of Mexican Art
Nancy García Loza and the National Museum of Mexican Art are one of the five winners of the 2022 Joyce Awards, which honor collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Nabil Ince With Harrison Center For The Arts
Through a songwriting residency at the Harrison Center, musician and educator Nabil Ince (a.k.a. Seaux Chill) will work with residents from three historically Black Indianapolis neighborhoods, using art to combat cultural erasure and gentrification.
Michael Manson With Living Arts
Michael Manson and Living Arts are one of the five winners of the 2022 Joyce Awards, which honor collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Aram Han Sifuentes With Hana Center
Aram Han Sifuentes and the HANA Center are one of the five winners of the 2022 Joyce Awards, which honor collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Pramila Vasudevan With Public Art Saint Paul
Pramila Vasudevan and Public Art Saint Paul are one of the five winners of the 2022 Joyce Awards, which honor collaborations between artists of color and arts and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.
Sydney Chatman With Congo Square Theatre
2021 Joyce Awards: Congo Square Theatre will partner with director, educator, and writer Sydney Chatman to develop a new community-based theatrical work exploring the journey of healing from intracommunal and statesanctioned violence.