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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Twelve Literary Arts with Terrel Wallace
2020 Joyce Awards: Twelve Literary Arts to commission Terrel Wallace (aka, “Tall Black Guy”), one of contemporary music’s most innovative producers, to create, “The Land Claps Back"
Hyde Park Art Center with Faheem Majeed
2020 Joyce Awards: Hyde Park Art Center to commission visual artist Faheem Majeed to create a new monumental artwork, exhibition, and related programming to address the important legacy of the South Side Community Art Center.
Gallery 400 at UIC with Adela Goldbard
2019 Joyce Awards: Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago will commission Mexican visual artist, Adela Goldbard, to stage The Last Judgment, a five-week exhibition at Gallery 400 and a one-day traveling, pyrotechnic performance.
TRUE Skool with Ana “Rokafella” Garcia, CHELOVE, and Aja Black
2019 Joyce Awards: Milwaukee’s center for creative arts and hip-hop culture, TRUE Skool, will give local youth an opportunity to collaborate with three pioneering female hip-hop artists to create new breakdancing, MC and graffiti-style art works.
Smart Museum of Art at UChicago with Emmanuel Pratt
2019 Joyce Awards: A group of international artists, led by Chicago’s Emmanuel Pratt, founder of the Sweet Water Foundation, in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art, will stage People, Energy, Light, Power: the [Re]Construction of Ethos.
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota with Bryan Thao Worra
2019 Joyce Awards: The Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota will engage poet, Bryan Thao Worra, to produce Laomagination: 45, an interactive, interdisciplinary exhibition presenting multi-generational stories of the Lao community.
Cleveland Public Theatre with Lisa Langford
2019 Joyce Awards: Cleveland-based playwright, Lisa Langford, will stage a new play with Cleveland Public Theatre entitled, Rastus and Hattie.
Playhouse Square with Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers
2019 Joyce Awards: Cleveland’s Playhouse Square will commission Cartography, a new theatrical work by theater artist, Kaneza Schaal, award-winning author and illustrator, Christopher Myers, and produced by ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann.
Rosy Simas with the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
2018 Joyce Awards: The Ordway in St. Paul, Minnesota, will commission Rosy Simas (Seneca, Heron Clan) to create “Weave,” an intersectional Native dance project that examines the interwoven and interdependent nature of our world.
jessica Care moore with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
2018 Joyce Awards: The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will commission a new theatrical work entitled Salt City by poet and playwright jessica Care moore, reflecting on themes of gentrification and cultural erasure.
Aar Maanta with the Cedar Cultural Center
2018 Joyce Awards: The Cedar in Minneapolis, Minnesota will partner with Somali musician, Aar Maanta, to produce the first-ever bilingual album of children’s songs titled, Children’s Songs from the Somali Diaspora.
Onye Ozuzu with Links Hall
2018 Joyce Awards: Links Hall in Chicago will commission dancer and choreographer Onye Ozuzu for a production that explores the inter-relationships between body, task, and tool as an improvisational landscape.
The O'Shaughnessy with the Ananya Dance Company
2017 Joyce Awards: The O'Shaughnessy, at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, will commission the Minneapolis-based Ananya Dance Company and its artistic director, Ananya Chatterjea, to develop and stage a new production called "Shaatranga."
Terence Blanchard and the Cuyahoga Community College Foundation
2017 Joyce Awards: As part of a two-year artist residency at Cuyahoga Community College, award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard will create a new work inspired by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 entitled, OUR VOICES: DEMOCRACY RE:visited.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts and Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
2017 Joyce Awards: Lauded Detroit-based printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. will lead a series of free, community work sessions at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis.
Free Street Theater and Ricardo Gamboa
2017 Joyce Awards: Free Street Theater will commission renowned artist and activist Ricardo Gamboa to work with a team that includes visual artists, poets, and storytellers to research the history of Mexican migration to Chicago.