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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is turned and looking towards their right. She is in sharp focus against a dark gray backdrop, wearing a high collared black coat.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Grants to Artists, 2024
Poetry

Tei Blow is centered and directly faces the camera. He is in front of a plain light backdrop, wearing a white collared shirt.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Performance Art/Theater

Petra Bravo

Dorothea Tanning Award, 2024
Dance

A black and white photo of aj carruthers facing the camera with his gaze looking upwards. Only his face is visible in an otherwise dark space, brows slightly furrowed.

Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, 2024
Poetry

A black and white photo of Sam Contis turned at a three quarter angle facing the camera. She stands against a stone grey background, wearing a solid black sweater and small hoop earrings.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Visual Arts

Morgan Craft looks directly at the camera, his face tilted up towards the camera above his eyeline. He stands in an out of focus snowy landscape, holding a black guitar by the body with the neck pointed towards the ground. He is wearing a black and white checkered scarf, and a navy corduroy jacket with black pants.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Music/Sound

Yulan Grant sits straddling the back of a wood chair in front of a pair of white wooden doors. Behind them, leaning against the door on the right are three large red bird of paradise flowers. They look directly at the camera, body facing forwards, with heels resting on the lower bars of the chair. Their right arm is in front of them hanging over the chair, while their left arm is crossed in front of them, resting on the back of the chair. They are wearing a black bomber jacket over a brightly colored, patterned shirt, orange pants with zippers on the cuffs, black shoes, and gold rimmed eyeglasses.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Music/Sound

Nile Harris faces directly into the camera while his body is turned towards the right. He sits before a stark black backdrop and is dressed in a bright red shirt.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Performance Art/Theater

Sharon Hayes stands in the middleground, centered in a studio space with large yellow panels with black lettering in the background and on the table in front of her. She smiles directly at the camera, wearing a black and red striped button up shirt, the maroon strap of a crossbody bag over her shoulder.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Visual Arts

Suzanne Jackson looks directly into the camera, standing before an abstract painted background of mostly cream and yellow hues. She is wearing a mint green turtleneck under a brown sweater, and dangling earrings.

Suzanne Jackson

Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, 2024
Visual Arts

Joanna Kotze sits before a stark black backdrop and looks directly at the camera, the right side of her face is shadowed. Her right knee is raised and her right elbow rests on it. She is dressed in a bright red sweater and gray acid-wash jeans.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Dance

Athena LaTocha stands in front of a stony gray background and looks directly at the camera. She is dressed in a white button up blouse.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Visual Arts

James Lo sits in sharp focus before a deep blue backdrop leaning towards the right. He smiles directly at the camera and is wearing a pale green button up shirt under a dark gray blazer.

Alvin Lucier Award, 2024
Music/Sound

A black and white portrait of Koichi Makigami, who stands in sharp focus before a solid light background. His head is turned slightly to the left while his body faces the camera. His elbows are raised and his hands are posed loosely in front of him with pointer fingers extended. He is wearing a black silk button up top with frog closures.

Koichi Makigami

Grants to Artists, 2024
Music/Sound

Guadalupe Maravilla

Robert Rauschenberg Award, 2024
Visual Arts

A sepia-toned photo of Ava Mendoza at a performance venue. She stands in sharp focus with their head turned towards the left while their body faces the right. Their eyes look to the left, they hold a white electric guitar with their right arm braced against the body, hand over the strings. Their other hand holds the lower neck of the guitar. They are wearing two chain necklaces, a black sleeveless v-neck blouse, and a thick, striped sweatband on their right wrist.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Music/Sound

Saretta Morgan stands in a corner between a large framed art piece and a dark gray reflective panel. She smiles looking directly at the camera with her upper body braced on her elbows as she leans forward, her hands in front of her. She is wearing a solid black long sleeved boat neck shirt, black jeans, and a blue and white beaded necklace.

Grants to Artists, 2024
Poetry

Photograph of Karyn Olivier looking towards the camera in front of a stone wall. She wears a colorful necklace, an orange button down shirt with white polka dots, and light green pans. Her shadow is visible in the framer.

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit: Karyn Olivier exhibition

Ellsworth Kelly Award, 2024
Visual Arts

Hoa Nguyen stands before a green concrete surface with red and green ivy behind her and growing on a wooden lattice in the background to the right. Her face is turned and she smiles to the right while her body faces the camera. Her right arm is by her side while her left hand holds the strap of the shoulder bag on her left shoulder. She is wearing a blue coat, open over a black blouse with a beaded checkered pattern and black, hanging, teardrop-shaped accent beads. She wears a dark gray fingerless glove and carries a black leather bag with a leather chain link strap.

C.D. Wright Award for Poetry, 2024
Poetry

A dimly lit nighttime photograph of Malcolm Peacock, who stands outside before a blurred tan and green background. His body and head are turned to face the right, and he wears no shirt or accessories.

Malcolm Peacock

Roy Lichtenstein Award, 2024
Visual Arts

Ronny Quevedo stands with his arms crossed before a white background, facing the camera. He wears round, tortoiseshell glasses, a short sleeve, asphalt-colored henley, black jeans, and a black, round-faced digital watch on his left wrist.

Richard Pousette-Dart Award, 2024
Visual Arts

Hsiao-Jou sits on the wooden floor in the corner of a rehearsal space with an open white door behind her and blue padded panel walls to her right. Her body faces the camera, knees are up with her bare feet in front of her, her elbows are braced on her knees and her hands cradle her face on each side. Face tilted slightly up, she smiles into the camera. She wears a blue, brown and pink plaid button up shirt and black sweatpants with blue racing stripes.

Viola Farber Award, 2024
Dance

Takako Yamaguchi looks to the right of the camera and smiles showing her teeth, and in front of a beige background. She is wearing round black eyeglasses and a black knit turtleneck.

Takako Yamaguchi

Grants to Artists, 2024
Visual Arts

Nathan Young looks directly at the camera in front of a dark blue, out of focus background. He is wearing a light blue linen button down shirt with white buttons.

John Cage Award, 2024
Music/Sound

Rosa Alcalá is in the center of the image, smiling. Framing her face are pieces of paper fastened to a clothesline with a red clothespin. She wears a red patterned sleeveless top.

Grants to Artists, 2023
Poetry

Holland Andrews looks directly into the camera. Their face is in sharp focus against a softly blurred background. They are wearing a bright red top and bright blue pendular earrings.

Holland Andrews

Grants to Artists, 2023
Music/Sound

Newman Taylor Baker looks to his left, smiling widely and wearing a black zip up coat, a black scarf, and a black porkpie hat.

Newman Taylor Baker

Grants to Artists, 2023
Music/Sound

Mike Cloud smiles softly into the camera. He wears glasses and a collared button down shirt under a windbreaker.

Richard Pousette-Dart Award, 2023
Visual Arts

Kyle Dacuyan

Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, 2023
Poetry

devynn emory is in the center of the image with their hands clasped against their chest. They are wearing a thick fleece jacket with mottled browns, tans, and black lines. Behind them is a metal table on wheels with a bowl of flowers on the bottom shelf. In the background there are white sculptures and two figures covered in orange cloth.

Merce Cunningham Award, 2023
Dance

Tonya M. Foster

Tonya M. Foster

C.D. Wright Award for Poetry, 2023
Poetry

Judith Geichman looks directly at the camera with a slight smile. She stands in front of two of her paintings wearing a black top, a black blazer, and glasses.

Judith Geichman

Grants to Artists, 2023
Visual Arts

Keiji Haino looks up toward the right, bathed in blue light, his brow furrowed. He wears dark sunglasses and has long white-silver hair that falls over his shoulders.

Roy Lichtenstein Award, 2023
Music/Sound

Cynthia Hawkins looks intently and directly into the camera. She wears glasses, rose-colored pendular earrings, a light blue turtleneck sweater, and a scarf with bright, multicolored squares.

Cynthia Hawkins

Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, 2023
Visual Arts

Jasmine Hearn gazes into the camera, their head shaved and lips slightly parted. They are in sharp focus against a grey blue background.

Grants to Artists, 2023
Dance

Claire Hong

Grants to Artists, 2023
Poetry

Jennifer Nikki Kidwell stands outside with her eyes closed, slightly leaning against a building’s wall and smiling. Sidewalk and streetlamps are visible on the left, out of focus. Jennifer wears jeans and a grey denim jacket over a white long-sleeved shirt and a red button-down shirt.

Jennifer Nikki Kidwell

Grants to Artists, 2023
Performance Art/Theater

yuniya looks calmly into the camera. Her head is shaved and she is wearing medium hoop earrings, a black jacket, and a patterned scarf.

yuniya edi kwon

Robert Rauschenberg Award, 2023
Music/Sound

Angel Lartigue kneels on the floor looking down at several plastic cups of clear liquid. She has blue paint speckled on her face and neck. She wears a black leather one-piece outfit with black surgical gloves and hoop earrings.

Grants to Artists, 2023
Visual Arts

Azikiwe Mohammed stands sideways with his hands clasped in front of him looking directly into the camera. Behind him is a bed covered with a quilted cover and a mirrored headboard shaped like a pentagon. He wears a white button-down shirt and red hooded cloak.

Azikiwe Mohammed

Grants to Artists, 2023
Performance Art/Theater