{"id":154990,"date":"2025-05-01T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/01\/here-are-the-2025-doris-duke-foundation-prize-recipients-the-honor-is-great-so-is-the-unrestricted-525k-cash-prize-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:12:09","slug":"here-are-the-2025-doris-duke-foundation-prize-recipients-the-honor-is-great-so-is-the-unrestricted-525k-cash-prize-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/01\/here-are-the-2025-doris-duke-foundation-prize-recipients-the-honor-is-great-so-is-the-unrestricted-525k-cash-prize-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are the 2025 Doris Duke Foundation Prize Recipients: The Honor Is Great. So Is the Unrestricted $525K Cash\u00a0Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

\n\tPast Grammy nominees Kassa Overall and Brandee Younger are among the six recipients of the 2025 Doris Duke Artist Awards. The award is the largest cash prize in the U.S. dedicated to individual performing artists, specifically those in theater, jazz, and dance.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

\n

\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Esperanza<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\tEsperanza Spalding, Miguel Zen\u00f3n & More Receive 2024 Doris Duke Artist\u00a0Awards\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\n\tHow large? Each artist is awarded a life-changing $525,000 in unrestricted funds allocated over seven years and an incentive of up to $25,000 to save for retirement. Including the 2025 recipients, the foundation has the distributed a total of more than $40 million to nearly 150 artists through the Doris Duke Artist Awards program.<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall, 42, was nominated for a Grammy four years ago for best jazz instrumental album as a member of Social Science for Waiting Game<\/em>, a collab with Terri Lyne Carrington<\/a> (who was a Doris Duke Award winner in 2019).<\/p>\n

\n\tYounger, 41, was nominated for best instrumental composition three years ago for \u201cBeautiful Is Black.\u201d She was the first Black woman to be nominated in that category, which dates to the first Grammy presentations in 1959.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s a quick look at this year\u2019s six Doris Duke Artist Award recipients:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kassa Overall:<\/strong> Jazz drummer, producer, rapper and bandleader. He has released three studio albums \u2013 Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, I Think I\u2019m Good<\/em> and Animals.<\/em> He melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brandee Younger:<\/strong> American harpist who blends classical, jazz, soul, and funk influences into her music. Early in her career, Younger worked with a diverse range of artists, including Pharoah Sanders, Common, John Legend, The Roots, and Lauryn Hill. In April 2019, Younger\u2019s original composition \u201cHortense\u201d was featured Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Netflix concert documentary Homecoming<\/em>.\u00a0 In 2024, she won the 2024 NAACP Image Award for outstanding jazz album for Brand New Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trajal Harrell:<\/strong> American dancer and choreographer best known for a series entitled \u201cTwenty Looks or Paris is Burning\u201d at The Judson Church. He is considered one of the most important choreographers working in contemporary dance today.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Raja Feather Kelly:<\/strong> Brooklyn-based choreographer known for his surrealist productions. He\u2019s worked on such shows as Fairview <\/em>and A Strange Loop<\/em>, and he serves as artistic director for The Feath3r Theory and the New Brooklyn Theatre.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aya Ogawa:<\/strong> Brooklyn-based playwright, director, performer and translator. Their work explores cultural identity and the immigrant experience, challenging traditional notions of American aesthetics. They use a collaborative process and incorporate diverse perspectives and languages into their performances.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kaneza Schaal:<\/strong> New York City-based artist working in theater, opera, and film. Her work Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876\u2013Now<\/em> was The Met\u2019s first live performance as an integral part of a major exhibition.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year, the Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) is reaffirming its commitment to and investment in the performing arts with $6.2 million in grants to support the national Creative Labor, Creative Conditions campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are so proud to announce the 2025 Artist Awards and to stand alongside these artists \u2014 and the broader arts community \u2014 in their fight for a future where artists have the resources and opportunities they need to live and work,\u201d Ashley Ferro-Murray, arts program director at DDF, said in a statement. \u201cDDF has long supported the performing arts. With Creative Labor, Creative Conditions, we\u2019re building on that commitment \u2014 highlighting how artists fuel culture, community, and entire industries, even as their contributions are too often undervalued.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDoris Duke was a billionaire tobacco heiress, philanthropist, and socialite. She died in 1993 at age 80.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Past Grammy nominees Kassa Overall and Brandee Younger are among the six recipients of the 2025 Doris Duke Artist Awards. The award is the largest cash prize in the U.S. dedicated to individual performing artists, specifically those in theater, jazz, and dance. Related Esperanza Spalding, Miguel Zen\u00f3n & More Receive 2024 Doris Duke Artist\u00a0Awards 04\/24\/2024 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}