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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Old Town School of Folk Music and Ernest Dawkins and Rahul Sharma
2017 Joyce Awards: Old Town School of Folk Music and renowned artists and educators Ernest Dawkins and Rahul Sharma will partner in creating a new work designed to engage up to 1,000 young musicians in an exploration of rich musical heritage.
Zakiyyah Alexander, Imani Uzuri and Penumbra Theatre
2016 Joyce Awards: Zakiyyah Alexander and Imani Uzuri received a Joyce Award with the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minn., to stage, GIRL Shakes Loose Her Skin.
Juan Angel Chávez and Chicago Children's Museum
2016 Joyce Awards: Juan Angel Chávez with Chicago Children's Museum to create a large scale public art installation spanning the museum's second floor walls and ceiling. Schoolchildren and museum guests will inform the content of Chávez's piece.
Charles McGee and the Charles H. Wright Museum
2016 Joyce Awards: Charles McGee received a Joyce Award, with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to create a permanent sculpture titled, “United We Stand.”
Aparna Ramaswamy
2016 Joyce Awards: Aparna Ramaswamy received a Joyce Award, with the Minneapolis-based, Ragamala Dance Company, to create a new work to be presented at the Walker Art Center, with live music from Colin Jacobsen.
Sandra Delgado and Chicago’s Teatro Vista
Colombian American actress and playwright, Sandra Delgado, will activate her Joyce Award to stage a new interactive theater experience based on the 1960s Chicago nightclub, La Habana Madrid.
Helado Negro and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series
Musician and composer Helado Negro, the moniker of Roberto Carlos Lange, will bring this groundbreaking, Latin-inspired sonic performance to Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music series.
Nari Ward and Detroit’s Power House Productions
Jamaica-born artist Nari Ward will create a dramatic sculpture for a vacant lot recently converted in to Ride It Sculpture Park.
Sanford Biggers and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit
Interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers received a Joyce Award to create an interactive art experience for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Tracey Scott Wilson with Pillsbury House Theatre
Tracey Scott Wilson received a Joyce Award to work with the Pillsbury House Theatre to write Prep, a play about a group of teachers changing their students’ test scores to receive yearly bonuses.
Jessie Montgomery with the Sphinx Organization
Jessie Montgomery received a Joyce Award to work with Detroit’s Sphinx Organization to compose, produce and perform “Banner!” a tribute to the 200th anniversary of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
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.