2022
Mary Bordeaux
Arts and culture administrator
Catherine Caldwell
Performing artist, choreographer and educator
Zoe Charlton
Visual artist and professor
Trinie Dalton
Writer and professor
Paul Elwood
Folk musician and professor
Anne Finger
Writer and professor
Arthur Gonzalez
Sculptor and professor
Michael Hammond
Retired professor and arts administrator
Heather Harpham
Writer, performer and professor
Katie Hollander
Arts and culture administrator
Anika Kwinana
Arts, social responsibility and inclusion administrator
Jeff Parker
Guitarist and composer
Martha Redbone
Vocalist, songwriter, composer and educator
Anna Tsouhlarakis
Visual and performance artist, and professor
Sharon VanStarkenburg
Visual artist, writer and professor
2021
Natalie Baxter
Visual and Textile Artist
Jamie Bennett
Interim President and CEO, United States Artists
Jibz Cameron
USA Artist Fellow and Creative Capital Fellow, Performance and Video Art
John Diliberto
Music and Radio Producer, Echoes
Julia Galloway
Professor, Ceramics, Foundation Drawing and Graduate Advisor, University of Montana
Andrew Glasgow
Former Executive Director, American Craft Council
Faren Humes
USA Artist Fellow, Filmmaker
Raina J. León
Associate Professor, Literary Arts, Saint Mary’s College of California, Kalmanovitz School of Education
Kevin Locke
USA Artist Fellow, Traditional and Cultural Arts
Isabelle Lutterodt
Director, Los Angeles Municipal Arts Gallery
Inés Familiar Miller
Associate Program Officer, Arts & Culture; The Kresge Foundation
Yessenia Montilla
Poet, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow
Ellice Patterson
Executive & Artistic Director, Abilities Dance
Javier Torres-Campos
Program Director, Thriving Cultures; Surdna Foundation
2020
Grisel Acosta
Professor, City University of New York-BCC
Lesley Nneka Arimah
USA Artist Fellow, Fiction Writer
Rebecca Cummins
Chair and Professor, University of Washington
Nadia Elokdah
Vice President and Director of Programs, Grantmakers in the Arts
Gabriel Frey
USA Artist Fellow, Traditional Basket Maker
Victoria Haven
Visual Artist
Robyn Hollingshead
Managing Program Director, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
USA Artist Fellow, Filmmaker and Playwright
John Roderick
Singer/Songwriter
Shannon Scrofano
Director, Center of Performance and Civic Practice
Bill Shannon
USA Artist Fellow
Performance and Video Artist
Leila Tamari
Senior Program Officer, ArtPlace America
Holcombe Waller
USA Artist Fellow, Composer, Vocalist, Performer
2019
Francene Blythe
Native Arts & Culture Foundation
Claire Dederer
Writer
Angie Durrell
Intempo
Ara Fitzgerald
Dancer and Choreographer
Amber Hoy
First People’s Fund
Kathleen Hughes
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Ruby Lopez Harper
Americans for the Arts
Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
Artist (Performance)
Kira Pritchard
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Judilee Reed
William Penn Foundation
Ry Rocklen
Artist
Vincent Toro
Poet
Alan Tracy
RISD Career Center
2018
Bruce Barcott
Journalist
Denise Brown
Leeway Foundation
Matthew Deleget
MINUS SPACE
Deana Haggag
United States Artists
Sharon Loudon
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
Dmae Roberts
MediaRites
Karlos Rodriguez
Catalyst Quartet
Victoria Rogers
Knight Foundation
Alycia Socia
Kresge Foundation
April Surgent
United States Artists Fellow
Donna Uchizono
United States Artists Fellow
Hrag Vartanian
Hyperallergic
Larry Vienneau
Seminole State College of Florida
2017
Alexandra Siclait
Creative Capital
Amy Kitchener
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Barbara Lanciers
Trust for Mutual Understanding
Bonnie Nadzam
Author
Caen Thomason-Redus
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Artist
Ellen Placey Wadey
Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Kapena Alapai
Arts in a Changing America
Melissa Thodos
Thodos Dance Chicago
Michael Sherrill
Center for Craft Creativity and Design
Shawn Greenlee
Rhode Island School of Design
Todd Boss
Poet