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Painting by Chante Fontaine, C'2011

Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. Rockefeller Foundation Division of the Arts Priority Award

The Division of the Arts Carnegie/Rockefeller Priority Award prioritizes faculty engaged in creative practices through making, performing, or exhibiting original work.  

2021-2022 Award Winners

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.

Ayoka Chenzira
Division Chair for the Arts


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The passion, imaginative thinking, and commitment to wrestling with ideas is evident inblue-quote-right each project. 

The Division Chair of the Arts, Dr. Ayoka Chenzira

Faculty Recipients