Two Artists in Current CCS Bard Exhibition Indian Theater Win MacArthur Fellowships
Artists Raven Chacon and Dyani White Hawk. © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, used with permission
Among this year’s MacArthur “genius” grant winners, two artists, Raven Chacon and Dyani White Hawk, are represented in Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969, a major exhibition curated by Candice Hopkins, CCS Bard’s inaugural fellow in Indigenous Art History and Curatorial Studies. Composer, visual artist, and recent Bard MFA faculty member Raven Chacon (from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation) featured a newly commissioned score for Being Future Being: Land/Celestial, a multiscalar work created by Emily Johnson and performed this summer in partnership with CCS Bard to surround the exhibition Indian Theater. Multidisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) has work currently on view in Indian Theater at CCS Bard’s Hessel Museum. Bard alum and interdisciplinary artist Carolyn Lazard ’10 was also named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
Further reading:
Four Artists Win 2023 MacArthur Fellowships (Artforum)
2023 MacArthur “Genius” Grants Awarded to Four Artists (ArtReview)
Four Artists Win $800,000 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships (ARTnews)
Indian Theater Rewrites Indigenous Art History Through Performance (Culture.org)
Bard Alum Carolyn Lazard ’10 Named 2023 MacArthur Fellow
Post Date: 10-10-2023
Further reading:
Four Artists Win 2023 MacArthur Fellowships (Artforum)
2023 MacArthur “Genius” Grants Awarded to Four Artists (ArtReview)
Four Artists Win $800,000 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships (ARTnews)
Indian Theater Rewrites Indigenous Art History Through Performance (Culture.org)
Bard Alum Carolyn Lazard ’10 Named 2023 MacArthur Fellow
Post Date: 10-10-2023