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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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.
Bill T. Jones with Ravinia Festival Association
Bill T. Jones and Ravinia Festival Association win 2009 Joyce Awards for new work inspired by the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birthday by African American dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones.
Quiara Alegría Hudes with Goodman Theatre
Quiara Alegría Hudes and Goodman Theatre win 2009 Joyce Awards to develop a new work tentatively titled The Jibaro Play, an exploration of the political revolution in Puerto Rico during the 1930s.
John Clayton with Detroit International Jazz Fest
John Clayton and Detroit International Jazz Fest win 2009 Joyce Awards to write a new full scale jazz work, tentatively titled The Guardian, inspired by Detroit's jazz legacy of the 1920s in celebration of the Festival's 30th anniversary in 2009.
Iona Rozeal Brown with Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Iona Rozeal Brown and Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland win 2009 Joyce Awards for several new works and to present the first Midwest museum exhibition of African American visual artist Iona Rozeal Brown.
Wing Young Huie with Public Art Saint Paul
2008 Joyce Awards to commission Asian American photographer Wing Young Huie to create an epic gallery of 360 photographs, reflecting complex cultural and socioeconomic diversity of St. Paul.