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#MacArthur Foundation's 19 Newest Fellows, 2023: #Scientists, #Filmmakers, #Artists, Legal Scholars, #Sociologists, #Musicians, #Writers, #Activists and #Historians

#MacArthur Foundation’s 19 Newest Fellows, 2023: #Scientists, #Filmmakers, #Artists, Legal Scholars, #Sociologists, #Musicians, #Writers, #Activists and #Historians logo 2023 The 2023 MacArthur Fellows are applying individual creativity with global perspective, centering connections across generations and communities. They forge stunning forms of artistic expression from ancestral and regional…

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#MacArthur Foundation 25 Newest Fellows 2021: #Scientists, #Filmmakers, #Artists, #Dancers, #Musicians, #Writers, #Activists and #Historians

#MacArthur Foundation 25 Newest Fellows 2021: #Scientists, #Filmmakers, #Artists, #Dancers, #Musicians, #Writers, #Activists and #Historians

#MacArthur Foundation 25 Newest Fellows 2021: #Scientists, #Filmmakers, #Artists, #Dancers, #Musicians, #Writers, #Activists and #Historians “The MacArthur Fellowship is a $625,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential….Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers,…

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Here are 2019′s MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners, including cartoonist Lynda Barry and Chicago urban designer Emmanuel Pratt

Chicago's own MacArthur Foundation has announced the winners of its 2019 Fellowships, the so-called "genius grants" awarded to artists, scholars and creative thinkers to support their work. Lynda Barry is a former Chicagoan. Urban designer Emmanuel Pratt lives and works in Chicago.

Congratulations to all the recipients, including our beloved Lynda Barry!

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the winners of this year's fellowship — often better known as the "genius" grant — and the list includes a characteristically wide array of disciplines -- we’re so excited for authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jesmyn Ward!

(Note: The foundation is among NPR's financial supporters.)

Find our coverage here.

-- Petra

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Remembering Unsung Science Fiction Hero & Genius Grant Winner Octavia Butler Read about it at the Southern California Public Radio website. Below: Devil Girl From Mars : the movie that sparked Butler's first science fiction story

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"MacArthur [Foundation] Announces [a year-long series of] Performances, Discussion to Celebrate 35 Years of Iconic Fellowship Program"

“MacArthur [Foundation] Announces [a year-long series of] Performances, Discussion to Celebrate 35 Years of Iconic Fellowship Program”

“MacArthur [Foundation] Announces [a year-long series of] Performances, Discussion to Celebrate 35 Years of Iconic Fellowship Program” https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/macarthur-announces-performances-discussion-celebrate-35-years-iconic-fellowship-program/#sthash.wuDoFQcB.dpuf

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Events Calendar https://www.macfound.org/events/fellows35/?all=1

These events are happening mostly in…

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Of the 24 MacArthur "genius grant" fellowship recipients named Tuesday, three are primarily authors.

Congrats to all the 2015 MacArthur genius grant winners!

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This Year, One Third of "Genius Grants" Recipients Are People Of Color

This Year, One Third of “Genius Grants” Recipients Are People Of Color

Click here to see the complete list of fellows at the MacArthur Foundation website. Joining a class of folks that includes the late Octavia Butler, Ta-Nehisi Coates is only one of the many people of color recently awarded a coveted MacArthur Foundation grant. (Awardees include everyone from a puppetry director to an inorganic chemist.) But here’s a video:…

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