PEW FELLOWSHIPS IN THE ARTS
1994 PANELISTS

Ann Carlson is a choreographer and performance artist best known for her unique blend of movement, voice, sound and visual elements. Ms. Carlson's recent work includes: Real People, created with and performed by people associated by a common profession, activity, or other relationship; Animals, a series of five dances which incorporates live animals into performance; and Pink, a television special for girls. These works have been performed in New York and have toured across the country to such venues as The Walker Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota and The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. Carlson is an accomplished dance/art educator, as well. She has received numerous awards for her artistic work including a 3-year choreographic fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as a two year solo fellowship (1991-1995). She has also received the National Choreographer's Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (aka Bessie), the Met Life Young Talent Award, and has recently completed a residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.
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Ayoka Chenzira is an independent film and video artist. Her short films, which include documentaries, animation, and experimental narratives, are presented internationally and are currently being distributed in the United States, England, and Japan. She has also lectured and exhibited internationally, and organized the first exhibition of African American cinema which toured throughout fourteen countries in Africa. She has earned production grants from the American Film Institute (1978), the National Endowment for the Arts (1988 & 1993), the Jerome Foundation(1988 & 1990) and the New York State Council on the Arts (1989), and was one of seven writers/directors selected for Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in 1984. She has been honored by the Mayors of New York and Detroit for her outstanding contributions to the field of Black independent cinema. A selected list of her films include: "Alien Card", "Alma's Rainbow", MOTV (My Own TV)", "Williams Wood", and "Zajota and the Bogie Spirit."
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William Christenberry is a photographer, sculptor, and painter. He has been a professor of art at The Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC for the past 25 years. The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Museum of Art, Washington, DC; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, among many others, have his works in their permanent collections. He has received many honors including, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976); the Mayor's Art Award, Washington, DC (1986); a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1984) and most recently an Art Matters Grant, New York (1994). He has had over 60 solo exhibitions, and has been a member of over 125 group exhibitions in 32 years. Many monographs have been published on his work, including William Christenberry: Southern Photographs, 1983 and Of Time and Place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry, 1990. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona is currently organizing a major retrospective of his work which will tour throughout the United States.
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Arthur Danto is among the nation's preeminent philosophers and art critics. Danto studied art and history at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) and then at Columbia University. From 1949 to 1950, Danto studied in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship, and in 1951 returned to teach at Columbia, where he is currently Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Since 1984, he has been art critic for The Nation, and in addition to his many books on philosophical subjects, he has published four collections of art criticism, The State of the Art (1987); Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (1990), which won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (1992), and the recently published Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations (1994).
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Jessica Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines and moved to the United States in her teens. She is the author of two collections of poems, prose, and short fiction, Dangerous Music and Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions. Her first novel, Dogeaters was published in 1990, receiving broad critical acclaim. In 1993, she published a major anthology entitled, Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology Of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and is currently working on her second novel. A performing artist as well as a writer, her multimedia theater pieces have been presented at New York's Public Theater, the Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, and St. Mark's Theater and include "Holy Food", "Teenytown", and "Mango Tango", and "Airport Music". Hagedorn has been a commentator for the national public radio magazine, "Crossroads," and was the lead singer and lyricist for the "Gangster Choir" band for many years.
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Kathy High is a video artist, producer and critic. She has worked as an independent artist and producer; and in the non-profit media arts community, as an administrator, curator and publisher. High is the founder and editor of Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, a critical journal about video art. Her experimental video works combine documentary and narrative elements, with a feminist perspective on medical history and treatment. She is the producer and director of the series Women and Medicine/Voices in My Head, which has been exhibited in festivals and galleries both nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Center for Media Art and Photography in Paris and broadcast on PBS. She has received numerous awards for her mixed media installations and video works, including fellowships from The Rockefeller Foundation, The National Endowment of the Arts and the Jerome Foundation. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of The Standby Program, Inc. and has taught video production, theory and criticism at various colleges and universities around the country.
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William Horrigan is the Media Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University. Previously, he served as the National Education Services Program Coordinator at The American Film Institute in Los Angeles and as Assistant Director for Film/Video at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He received his M.A. in Radio-TV-Film and his Ph.D. in Film from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Horrigan has served as a panelist for numerous state arts councils, including: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois and Colorado. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers and served as a co-editor for film/video reviews for GLO. He has published extensively in national journals and written catalogue essays for major film exhibitions (which he also curated) entitled "Beth B"; "Will/Power"; and "Go Home," "In Search of Paradise."
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Julie Lazar is a curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA). She studied at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research and Oakland University. She has curated and co-organized over 50 exhibitions and performances since 1983. They include: "Rolywholyover A Circus" by John Cage, currently travelling to major venues throughout the world; "World Tour" by installation artist Renee Greene; "Historias" a multi-media performance and installation by visual artist Pepon Osorio and Choreographer Merian Soto; and "Martin Puryear" a mid-career survey. She developed and produced "The Territory of Art" an ongoing program of commissioned works for radio. Lazar also served as advisor to KCTA-TV on "Alive From Off Center." Her current curatorial projects include, "Newborn" by Sherrie Levine, an installation at MOCA, and "Action Occupation" by Elizabeth Streb/Ringside, a presentation including two newly commissioned works for the re-opening of MOCA at its Temporary Contemporary building.
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Glenn Ligon is a printmaker and painter who attended the Rhode Island School of Design and was awarded his B.A. from Weslyan University. He has received two Visual Artists Fellowships (1989 & 1991) as well as a Curatorial Internship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1982), in addition to being honored by an Art Matters Fellowship (1990). He has been featured in one-person exhibitions in many venues in Washington, DC; New York; and Connecticut. His work has also been shown in group exhibitions internationally, most recently including "The Return of the Cadavre Exquis" at the Drawing Center, New York and the 1993 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His work is found in many public collections including, the List Art Gallery, MIT, Boston; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, filmmaker, and director/choreographer. During a career that spans over 25 years, she has been a major creative force in the performing arts. A pioneer in what is now called "extended vocal technique," her early musical training included piano, voice and Dalcroze Eurythmics, graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1964. Ms. Monk has created more than 80 music/theater/dance and film works. She has received numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, three Obies (including an award for Sustained Achievement), Two Villager Awards, and a Bessie for Sustained Creative Achievement. In 1968 Ms. Monk founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. She has made ten recordings, her newest CD, ATLAS was released in January, 1994, this full length opera was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, The Walker Art Center and The American Music Theater Festival and premiered in 1991. She continues to tour nationally and internationally and plans to continue her work on a documentary film "Education of the Girlchild."
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John O'Neal is a writer, performer and director whose performances have taken him to audiences throughout North America and Europe. He is the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans, the model for Philadelphia's Freedom Theater. Among his plays are Hurricane Season, Where is the Blood of your Fathers, and the comedy When the Opportunity Scratches, Itch it. Since 1980, he has performed and toured extensively in solo performances as the Junebug character Jabbo Jones in the productions such as "Don't Start Me Talking or I'll Tell Everything I Know" and You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover: Sayings from the Life and Writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones." O'Neal also served as a Guest Artist Teacher of Playwriting at Cornell University, New York. Currently, he is the Artistic Director/Performer for Junebug Productions, Inc., also in New Orleans. He has received many fellowships and grants, including an NEA Playwriting Fellowship. He has produced 12 plays, including, most recently, Crossing the Broken Bridge featuring Naomi Newman and Steve Kent.
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Andre Schiffrin is currently the director and editor-in-chief of The New Press. For twenty-eight years, he was managing director and editor-in-chief of Pantheon Books at Random House. Authors Mr. Schiffrin brought to Pantheon and with whom he has worked include Studs Terkel, Eric Hobsbawm, Michel Foucault, Nathan Huggins, Simone DeBeauvoir, Noam Chomsky, Julio Cortazar, Gunnar Myrdal and R. D. Laing. He has been a member of the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union for many years and the Freedom to Publish Committee of the American Association of Publishers, among others. He has also served for six years on the New York Endowment of the Humanities, where he guided the program for aid to smaller institutions in New York State. He has written articles for The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Nation, as well as for numerous scholarly journals and magazines. He has served as visiting lecturer for two years at Yale University, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1957. He received a masters degree with highest honors from Cambridge University in England and was the first American to edit Granta, then the University's literary magazine.
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Carolyn See is a writer and critic who received a Ph.D. from the University of California in American Literature in 1963. Her most recent published novels include, Making History (1991), Golden Days (1986), Rhine Maidens (1980), and Mothers, Daughters (1977). Blue Money, a work of nonfiction, was published in 1973. She has received numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 1990, a Lila Wallace Teaching Grant 1992-93 and a 1993 LA Times Robert Kersch Body of Work Award. She has been an English professor at UCLA since 1986, and at Loyola Marymount University prior to this. Carolyn See is also a regular book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, and The Washington Post. She is a member of the Board of Directors of numerous organizations including the National Books Critics Circle, PEN West International (President 1990-91), and the California Arts Council.
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