Past Recipients: Arts Fellowships
Past Recipients of Independence Foundation Fellowships in both the Performing and Visual Arts are listed below by year. An asterisk beside an artist's name denotes having previously received a fellowship.
Fellowship in the Arts
2024
Performing Arts
- Melissa Dunphy, Music
- Dane Eissler, Theatre/Puppetry
- Eliana Fabiyi, Theatre/Puppetry
- Makoto Hirano*, Playwriting
- Whitney Hunter, Dance
- Jackie Soro, Music/Theatre
- R. Eric Thomas, Playwriting
Visual Arts
- Shasta Bady, Photography
- Megan Biddle, Sculpture
- Rebecca Gilbert*, Printmaking/Works on Paper
- Minah Kim, Sculpture
- Ziui Chen Vance, Painting/New Media
- Wilmer Wilson IV, Interdisciplinary
2023
Performing Arts
- POSTPONED
Visual Arts
- POSTPONED
2022
Performing Arts
- POSTPONED
Visual Arts
- POSTPONED
2021
Performing Arts
- POSTPONED
Visual Arts
- POSTPONED
2020
Performing Arts
- Emily Bate
- Emmanuelle Delpech*
- Shavon Norris
- Matteo Scammell
- Anna Weesner
- Rebecca Wright
Visual Arts
- POSTPONED
2019
Performing Arts
- Christopher Colucci*
- Sarah Gliko
- Jessica Johnson
- Colin McIlvaine
- James Primosch*
- Alexandra Tatarsky
Visual Arts
- Maria Dumlao
- Wit Lopez
- Gabriel Martinez
- Kathryn Smith Pyle
- Ron Tarver*
- Shira Walinsky
2018
Performing Arts
- Kevin Glaccum
- Jennifer Kidwell
- Michael Kiley*
- Whit MacLauglin
- Bi Jean Ngo
- Magdalene San Milan
- Kile Smith
Visual Arts
- Patrick Connors
- Colette Fu*
- Rebecca Gilbert
- Teresa Jaynes*
- Ana Palma
2017
Performing Arts
- Andrea Clearfield
- Justin Jain
- Emilie Krause
- Melissa Krodman
- Jumatatu Poe
- Samantha Tower
Visual Arts
- Francine Affourtit
- Jesse Krimes
- Andrea Krupp
- Yinka Orafidiya
- Jason Starin
- Daniel Teran
2016
Performing Arts
- Melanie Cotton
- Jacqueline Goldfinger
- Jennifer Higdon
- Kevin Meehan
- Hillary Rea
- Scott Sheppard
- Lindsay Smiling
- Dito van Reigersberg
Visual Arts
- Joan Wadleigh Curran*
- Susan Hagen*
- Claudia Mastrobuono
- Michelle Oosterbaan
- Amy Shindo
- Cesar Viveros*
2015
Performing Arts
- Alex Bechtel
- Jeffrey Coon
- Anthony Lawton *
- David Ludwig *
- Gabrielle Revlock
- Maria Shaplin
- Annie Wilson
Visual Arts
- Victoria Burge
- Rebecca Chappell
- Alexis Granwell
- Eurhi Jones
- Roberta Massuch
2014
Performing Arts
- Megan Bridge
- Benjamin Camp
- Shinjoo Cho
- Janis Dardaris
- Liz Filios
- Michael Hollinger *
- Robert Kaplowitz
Visual Arts
- Mariel Capanna
- Shelby Donnelly
- Talia Greene
- Tony Heriza
- Lauren Mabry
- Marta Sanchez
2013
Performing Arts
- Christopher Colucci
- John Jarboe
- Kun-Yang Lin
- Alex Keiper
- Sebastienne Mundheim
- Daniel Perelstein
- Kate Watson-Wallace *
- Maurice Wright
Visual Arts
- Marianne Bernstein
- Diane Burko
- Michael Fujita
- Kay Healy
- Teresa Jaynes
- Shelley Spector
2012
Performing Arts
- Meg Foley
- Bethany Formica
- Michael Kiley
- Matthew Levy
- Mark Lord
- Steve Pacek
- Alex Torra
- Rebecca Wright
Visual Arts
- James Abbott
- Marilyn Holsing
- Tim Portlock
- Alison Stigora
2011
Performing Arts
- Quinn Bauriedel
- James Ijames
- Megan Mazarick
- Rosemarie McKelvey
- James Sugg *
- Thomas Whitman
Visual Arts
- Noah Addis
- Hiroe Harazano
- James Johnson
- Diane Pieri *
- Paul Santoleri *
- Anula Shetty *
2010
Performing Arts
- Nicole Cousineau *
- Brett Keyser
- Mary McCool
- Thaddeus Phillips *
- Andrew Simonet
- David Simpson
- Geoffrey Sobelle *
- Leah Stein
- Christina Zani
Visual Arts
- Aaron Birk
- Amze Emmons
- Colette Fu
- Jeanne Jaffe
- Ryan Wilson Kelly
- Keiko Miyamori
- Nadine Patterson
- Shane Stratton
2009
Performing Arts
- Kyle Bartlett
- Myra Bazell *
- Marianela Boan
- Jennifer Childs *
- Jorge Cousineau *
- Charlotte Ford
- Amanda Miller
- Lane Savadove
- David Yang
Visual Arts
- Joan Wadleigh Curran
- Caroline Lathan-Stiefel
- Robert Roesch
- Rebecca Rutstein
- John Williams
2008
Performing Arts
- John Blake
- Nichole Canuso *
- Troy Herion
- Elbia Hevia y Vaca
- Makoto Hirano
- Lisa Kraus
- Adrienne Mackey
- Beth Nixon
- Peter Pryor *
Visual Arts
- Ava Blitz
- Heather Mae Erickson
- Susan Hagen *
- Jane Irish
- Homer Jackson
- Katie Murken
- Eliseo Art Silva
2007
Performing Arts
- Charles O. Anderson
- Tony Braithwaite
- Ben Dibble
- Sara Felder
- Germaine Ingram
- Tom McCarthy
- William Moriarty
- Alexander Shaw
- Kate Watson-Wallace
Visual Arts
- Justyna Badach
- Emily Brown
- Myung Jin Choi
- Cesar Viveros Herrera*
- Caitlin Emma Perkins
- Amy Stevens
- Julia Stratton *
- Ron Tarver
2006
Performing Arts
- Aaron Cromie *
- Megan Bridge
- Devyn Emory
- Lee Ann Etzold
- Karen Getz
- John B. Hedges
- Michael Nathaniel Hersch
- Jeb Kreager
- Jeannine Osayande
Visual Arts
- Katie Baldwin
- Susan Beiner
- Cindy Burstein
- Robert Chaney
- Lisa Murch
- Jeffrey Stockbridge
2005
Performing Arts
- David Brick
- Tyrone Brown
- Andrea Clearfield
- Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey
- Millie Hiibel
- John Stephen Hoey
- Tania Isaac
- James Primosch
- Dan Rothenberg
- Tobin Rothlein
Visual Arts
- Catherine Abercrombie
- Ruth Barkley
- Rita Bernstein
- Jennifer Blazina
- Steven Donegan
- Harvey Finkle
- Daniel Heyman
- Maria Teresa Rodriguez
- Stuart Shils
- Nami Yamamoto
- Julie York
2004
Performing Arts
- Jay Ansill
- Myra Bazell
- Kormassa Bobo
- Jorge Cousineau
- Bradley R. Helm
- Rick Henderson
- Anthony Lawton
- Martha McDonald
- Ju-Yeon Ryu
- Catharine Slusar
Visual Arts
- Yekini Atanda
- Jerry L. Bennett
- Joan Wadleigh Curran
- David Guinn
- Ann Northrup
- Tony Rocco
- Peter Rose
- Bill Scott
- Shelley Spector
- Justin Witte
2003
Performing Arts
- Morgan Fitzpatrick Andrews
- Nicole Cousineau
- Christine Cox
- Madi DiStefano
- Kingambo Gilonda
- Grace Gonglewski
- Geoffrey Sobelle
- James Sugg
- Dorothy Wilkie
- Steven Wright
- Raphael Xavier
Visual Arts
- Alyse Bernstein
- James Clark
- Mei-ling Hom
- Sarah McEneaney
- Nancy Bea Miller
- Erica Pennella
- Csilla Sadloch
- Anula Shetty
2002
Performing Arts
- Greg Giovanni
- Scott Greer
- Nicolas Kendall
- Raelle Myrick-Hodges
- Thaddeus Phillips
- Alba Potes
- Meredith Rainey
- Mark O’Maley
- Tom Reing
- Greg Wood
- Marian X
Visual Arts
- Susan Fenton
- Cesar E. Viveros Herrera
- Raquel Montilla Higgins
- Joseph Hu
- Christina Johnson
- Heeseung Lee
- Todd Noe
- Michael O’Reilly
- Claire Owen
- Paul Santoleri
- Judith Taylor
2001
Performing Arts
- Jennifer Alimonti
- Jesse Bernstein
- Nichole Canuso
- Deborah Block
- Jennifer Childs
- Katherine Livingston
- Magda Martinez
- Matthew Neenan
- Peter Pryor
- Anna Rubio
- Gary San Angel
- Wayne St. David
Visual Arts
- Gianni Benvenuti
- Sister Helen David Brancato
- Brian David Dennis
- Lynn Blackwell Denton
- Rain Harris
- Cavin Jones
- Lucartha Kohler
- William Scott Noel
- Judith Barbour Osbourne
- Diane Pieri
- Pang Xiong Siriatasuk Sikoun
- Julia Stratton
- Jody Sweitzer
- Rebekah Wostrel
2000
Performing Arts
- David Bardeen
- Aaron Cromie
- Michael Hollinger
- Suli Holum
- Roko Kawai
- David Ludwig
- John Lumia
- Larry Grant Malvern
- Luis Prado
- Jeanne Ruddy
- Lenny Seidman
- Elio Villafranca
- Adam Wernick
Visual Arts
- Shannon Bowser
- Jeff Dion
- James Dupree
- Susan Hagen
- Glenn Holsten
- Patricia Ingersoll
- Teresa Jaynes
- Leroy Johnson
- Qimin Liu
- John Horace Stone
- Timi Sullivan
- Steven Tucker
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