Tavares Strachan and Amanda Williams have also received the award, which increased from $625k to $800k, no strings attached.
MacArthur Fellow
Jordan Casteel, Nicole Fleetwood, and Daniel Lind-Ramos Named MacArthur “Genius” Fellows
Each of the 25 winners will receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 stipend, paid out over five years.
Mary Reid Kelley, Joyce J. Scott, and Other Art Worlders Win MacArthur “Genius Grants”
Several artists are among the just-announced winners of this year’s John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships, often called “genius grants.”
Seven Artists, Writers, and Musicians Among 2014 MacArthur Fellows
Of this year’s 21 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, better known as the ‘genius grant,’ seven come from the arts.
Is Creativity Linked to Mobility?
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil,” American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote.