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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Lynn Nottage With Guthrie Theater
Lynn Nottage received a Joyce Award to work with the Guthrie Theater and stage a premiere production of Reading Play, a play she began writing after interviewing the people of Reading, Pennsylvania, named the poorest city in America in 2011.
Camille A. Brown With Dancecleveland
Camille A. Brown to collaborate with DANCECleveland to create, Black Girl, a powerful dance and music composition that will depict the complexities of carving out a positive identity for African American females in urban American culture.
Seitu Jones With Public Art Saint Paul
Visual artist Seitu Jones received a Joyce Award to gather his neighbors in St. Paul around a mile-long table to share a meal. In the process, he's asking all of us to reexamine our food choices and what it means to share a meal.
Emily Johnson With Northrop Auditorium
Native American choreographer Emily Johnson received a Joyce Award to create SHORE, a dance performance that premieres in June 2014 at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Reginald Baylor With Art Milwaukee
Reginald Baylor is collaborating with Art Milwaukee to present TypeFace, a series of outdoor paintings affixed to boarded-up abandoned homes, store fronts and buildings in some of Milwaukee's most blighted neighborhoods.
William Pope.l With Spaces Gallery
William Pope.L working with SPACES in Cleveland to create, “Parade: a large-scale public project that interweaves the memories, dreams and histories of Clevelanders.”
Luis Alfaro, Enrique Adyanthaya And Marlina Gonzalez With Teatro Del Pueblo And Pangea World Theater
Luis Alfaro as lead artist, working with Enrique Adyanthaya and Marlina Gonzalez to write a season of plays based on the ideas behind Latino/Asian fusion in collaboration with two Twin City theater companies, Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea.
Reggie Wilson With Columbia College Chicago Dance Center
Reggie Wilson working with Columbia College Chicago Dance Center to create Moseses Project, an evening-length dance theater work, exploring the interfaith mythical, biblical, historic and global references of Moses.
Hannibal Lokumbe With Vocalessence
VocalEssence to commission a new work by African American composer/musician Hannibal Lokumbe.
Alonzo King With With Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
The collaboration between choreographer Alonzo King and Chicago-based Hubbard Street Dance culminated with the Chicago premiere of two new works in Hubbard Street’s Spring Series in March of 2013.
Carolina Chocolate Drops With Old Town School Of Folk Music
To commission the African American stringband the Carolina Chocolate Drops to create a new multi-media collaborative performance piece that would present and celebrate black heritage from Vaudeville to contemporary black culture.
Naomi Iizuka With The Children’s Theatre Company
The 2011 Joyce Award supported the development of an original work based on Japanese folktales that will introduce young audiences to the cosmic dilemmas and archetypal situations in traditional Japanese literature and fairytales.
Ali Momeni With The Minneapolis Society Of Fine Arts
The Joyce Award supported the MIA to commission Momeni to create collaborative, new media installations.
Uri Sands With Ordway Center For The Performing Arts
Sands received a 2010 Joyce Award to create a new work for the Ordway Center. Sands brought the movement of Barnes’ work—much of his imagery reflects urban life and dance—from the canvas to the stage through his choreography and R&B music of the 1960s.
Tarell Alvin Mccraney With Steppenwolf Theatre Co.
Tarrell Alvin McCraney and Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2010 Joyce Award for new play.
Theaster Gates With The Chipstone Foundation
Theaster Gates and the Milwaukee Art Museum win 2010 Joyce Awards to create new multi-media exhibition/installation that includes pottery, sculpture, video, and music.