The Division of the Arts Carnegie/Rockefeller Priority Award prioritizes faculty engaged in creative practices through making, performing, or exhibiting original work.
During the academic year 2020-2021, five faculty in the arts were awarded Carnegie/Rockefeller Division of the Arts Priority Awards. Faculty who received the awards are Erin Washington (Department of Theater & Performance), Jaycee Holmes & T.Lang (Department of Art & Visual Culture, and Department of Dance Performance & Choreography), Nydia Blas (Department of Art & Visual Culture), and Paula Grissom Boughton, Ph.D. (Department of Music). Each recipient received $3,000.00 and had six months to deliver the project. Following is information about their projects.