ANN HAMILTON AND EDGAR ARCENAUX AMONG WINNERS OF FIFTY USA FELLOWSHIPS

United States Artists (USA), a national organization that provides direct support for living artists, today announced the recipients of fifty USA Fellowships for 2007 totaling $2.5 million. This marks the second year of the USA Fellows program, which annually awards fifty fifty-thousand-dollar unrestricted grants to artists of all disciplines from across the country, in recognition of the caliber and impact of their work. Expert panels selected the fifty-three winning artists (including three collaboratives) from among 344 nominated applicants ranging from twenty-three to ninety-seven years of age and hailing from forty-two states. The USA Fellows for 2007 will be honored on November 17 in Los Angeles. Artists working in eight artistic disciplines were awarded, including three in architecture and design, five in crafts and traditional arts, six in dance, nine in literature, five in media, six in music, six in theater arts, and ten in visual arts. Among the winners are choreographers Anna Halprin and Bill T. Jones, visual artists Ann Hamilton and Edgar Arcenaux, composer and pianist Jason Moran, architects Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehranti of office dA, and writer Charles D’Ambrosio. For more information, see the press release here.