Tag: Lewis Center for the Arts
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Newest Lewis Center choreographers have diverse professional backgrounds
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance at Princeton University announces two artists as Caroline Hearst Choreographers-in-Residence for the 2021-22 academic year: Dianne McIntyre and Cameron McKinney. McIntyre and McKinney have spent time this past semester at the Lewis Center engaging with the larger Princeton community and working directly with students, while also…
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Lewis Center for the Arts awards funding for summer projects
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University announces more than $152,000 in awards to support the summer projects and research of 57 Princeton undergraduates. While all first-, second-, and third-year students are eligible to apply for the awards, for many recipients the funding provides vital resources to conduct research, undertake training, and pursue…
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Disabled, formerly undocumented immigrant and ‘songspeller’ named Fellows for Lewis Center for the Arts
Choreographer, educator and disability advocate Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez and singer-songwriter-storyteller Kamara Thomas have been named Princeton University Arts Fellows for 2022-24 by the Lewis Center for the Arts, and will begin two years of teaching and community collaboration in September. The Arts Fellows program of the Lewis Center provides support for early-career artists who have…
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Lewis Center for the Arts announces Hodder Fellows for 2022-23 academic year
Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts announced the selection of five Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. This year’s recipients include choreographer and performance artist Mayfield Brooks, opera singer and director Malena Dayen, playwright Virginia Grise, author Jamil Jan Kochai, and artist and writer Sidony O’Neal. In making the announcement,…
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Photographer fashions ‘visual vocabulary for Black selfhood’
Award-winning photographer Deana Lawson has recently been named the inaugural Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts in Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. A member of Princeton’s Program in Visual Arts faculty since 2012, Lawson’s appointment begins July 1. “Deana Lawson, one of the preeminent artists of our time, has fashioned a visual…
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Lewis Center names Fellows for 2021-23
Interdisciplinary tap dance artist Michael J. Love; filmmaker and visual artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden; and comedian, actress and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid have been named Princeton University Arts Fellows for 2021-23 by the Lewis Center for the Arts, and as such will begin two years of teaching and community collaboration in September. The Arts Fellows…
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Lewis Center for the Arts Fellows will explore American culture influenced by personal backgrounds
Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts has announced the selection of five Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. This year’s recipients include choreographer/performer Leslie Cuyjet, visual artist Mark Thomas Gibson, playwright and poet Anya Pearson, gwenyambira and musician Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, and music theater composer Brandon Webster. “In a year of…
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Indigenous Chamoru poet will read selections via Zoom
A reading by award-winning indigenous Chamoru poet Dr. Craig Santos Perez, and Program in Creative Writing seniors Paige Allen, Lucy Chuang, Maya Eashwaran, Vail Linn and Hannah Wang, next in the 2020-21 season of the C.K. Williams Reading Series, will be presented virtually this year at 6 p.m. Nov. 4 by the Lewis Center for…
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Princeton Juneteenth Block Party: A day of celebration, remembrance, activism
Six young organizers produced the first-ever public observance and celebration of Juneteenth in Princeton. Billed as a celebration of the cultural achievements of Black Americans and a commendation of the Black Lives Matter movement, it was a day of solidarity, celebration and action on June 18 at the Princeton Family YMCA field. The program began…