UNITED STATES ARTISTS

Igniting and sustaining America’s creative potential.

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2012 USA Kippy Fellow Theaster Gates work at the ICA in Boston until May 10th. Review here. 

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2012 USA James Baldwin Fellow Marcus Gardley won the Will Glickman Playwright Award for “The House That Will Not Stand,” in 2014.

Read about it here! 

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USA Berman Bloch Fellow Coco Fusco's article on Cuba's Performance Problem 

READ HERE

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2012 USA Ford Fellow Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago, album review: 'rewarding'-Jack DeJohnette teams up with classy jazz musicians and the range of expression these five players draw from their instruments is astonishing Read more here.

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Trisha Brown Dance Company performing in Ann Arbor Feb. 21-22

2012 USA Simon Fellow Trisha Brown 

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2012 USA Rockefeller Fellow Margaret Brown is a producer and director widely known for her award-winning documentaries. Her third feature, "The Great Invisible," premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival where it won the Documentary Competition's Grand Jury Prize

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2012 USA Rockefeller Fellows Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia named the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards' "Someone to Watch." Read more here.

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KYLE ABRAHAM / ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION: PAVEMENT

2012 USA Ford Fellow Kyle Abraham performing at the Yerba Buena Center!

February 19–21, 2015 at 8pm PAVEMENT Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

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Continuum of Innovation: Haystack Clay Selects Upcoming exhibition February 28, 2015 - August 23, 2015 with 2014 USA Windgate Fellow Tip Toland at the Fuller Craft Museum 

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Watch 2014 USA Hoi Fellow Doris Kim Sung's TED Talk: Metal that breathes

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Acclaimed writer and translator, 2014 USA Ford Fellow Achy Obejas will give a free, public lecture on “Identity and Dislocation” Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater during her residency as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow at Transylvania University.

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New York Times review on 2014 USA Cummings Fellow Meshell Ndegeocello

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“Sanford, Wangechi and Barron are among our most important contemporary artists, each fully embodying the rebellious spirit of Afropunk,” says director Terrance Nance in Ebony article. 

Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/afropop-afropunk-blow-up-black-modern-art-999#ixzz3S2AGjUNF Follow us: @EbonyMag on Twitter | EbonyMag on Facebook

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USA Fellow Darryl Montana sings at 19th Annual Wildhorse Pow-Wow this past weekend Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/16/wildhorse-singers-powwow-celebrates-19-years-community-outreach-159223

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2014 USA Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellow, Leslie Hewitt, exhibition, Speaking of People, at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/speaking-people-emebonyem-emjetem-and-contemporary-art

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2014 USA Oliver Fellow Mary Heilmann article in Hyperallergic 

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Dance Review of the composer-sound designer and 2014 USA Rockefeller Fellow d. Sabela grimes's Stardust from The Chicago Tribune