Alice Wong

Performance Space New York Announces Spring 2023 Season of its HEALING SERIES

Performance Space New York has announced the Spring 2023 season of its Healing Series, the second part of its year-long reflection on the political potency of healing and the role performance plays in it, in the midst of what feels like a momentous shift in art-making to foreground modes and practices of care.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati And Partners To Host NEA BIG READ: GREATER CINCINNATI From September 2022 â€" June 2023

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) and several community partners will host the NEA Big Read: Greater Cincinnati, sponsored in part by grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts through Arts Midwest.

Choreographer Alice Sheppard Awarded $1 Million Neilsen Visionary Prize

The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation today announced that Alice Sheppard, internationally-recognized dancer, choreographer, and founder of disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light, is a recipient of the $1 million 2021 Neilsen Visionary Prize. Fellow 2021 recipients are Kim Anderson-Erisman, PhD and Wesley Hamilton.

Choreographer Alice Sheppard Awarded $1 Million 2021 Neilsen Visionary Prize by The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation

The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation today announced that Alice Sheppard, internationally-recognized dancer, choreographer, and founder of disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light, is a recipient of the $1 million 2021 Neilsen Visionary Prize. Fellow 2021 recipients are Kim Anderson-Erisman, PhD and Wesley Hamilton.

This comes after the Disability Futures fellowship launched last fall, the first of its kind created by and for disabled practitioners. The program 20 disabled creatives around the U.S. with unrestricted $50,000 grants.

Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce Disability Futures Fellows

Today, the Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced the Disability Futures Fellows, the recipients of an 18-month initiative administered by United States Artists that aims to increase the visibility of disabled creative practitioners across disciplines and geography and elevate their voices individually and collectively.

Highly coveted Paris-based fashion brand Isabel Marant and Asia's leading retail, brand management and distribution company ImagineX Group announced the establishment of an exclusive strategic partnership to position the Isabel Marant brands for growth across Greater China. Together they will develop Isabel Marant brand as well as its second line, Isabel Marant Etoile, to reach a dozen of points of sale over the next five years.

Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts.