Sentences with phrase «leader among artists»

Since then, Meireles has been recognized as a pioneer and leader among artists working in politically and socially engaged conceptual art.

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A graduate of the University of Virginia, Sara is a 2016 Stevie Award Winner for «Female Innovator of the Year;» a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum; an American Express Ashoka Emerging Innovator; a Cordes Fellow with the Opportunity Collaboration; a Peace X Peace 2012 Women, Power, & Peace Award Winner (Generation Peace Award); the only U.S. recipient of the Youth Leader Award in the Americas by the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Meeting; an Ashoka Activating Empathy Award Winner; a three - time Beyond Sport Award Finalist; named a «Woman Entrepreneur» by World Resources Institute New Ventures Mexico; a Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies; a StartingBloc Fellow; a Finalist Nominee Social Entrepreneur / Innovator for the Women's Information Network 18th Annual Young Women of Achievement Award; 1 of 3 Artists Transforming the World by the Arts and Healing Network; Global Good Fund Fellow; honored among The Jewish Week NY's «36 Under 36»; and a Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Fellow.

These fields may vary, with sports stars, pop stars, fanfic authors, gang leaders, and martial artists mixed among the diverse specialists throughout the game.

In the United States, he counted among his friends the leaders of American modernism, artists such as Joseph Stella, John Sloan, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as the poets Hart Crane and E.E. Cummings.

Burgoyne Diller, among the most significant American abstract artists of the twentieth century, is regarded as a leader of the avant - garde in the 1930s and a forefather of the 1960s Minimalist movement.

To the past honorees, however, among whom I feel especially humbled and privileged to share this honor, I'd like to thank you for your example and achievements that have enriched us all: Andrea [Barnwell Brownlee], whose ambitious and inspired curatorial work gives voice to women artists of the African Diaspora; Jerry [Cullum], a visionary writer whose genius lies in his ability to synthesize the experience of art with poetic complexity; Louis [Corrigan], a trailblazing community leader whose innovative ethos and generosity has rekindled the boundless spirit of Nexus; Lisa [Cremin], a leader of responsible and responsive philanthropy who personifies the idiomatic true north for the arts in Atlanta; Lucinda [Bunnen], a brilliant artist and pioneering collector who established photography as an essential feature of contemporary visual culture in our city... and at the High Museum; and Susan [Bridges], den mother to us all, whose generosity of spirit is set off by her unshakable personal integrity.

It explores the unique creative efforts among some of America's most important artists, leaders in the development of an unmistakably American style of Modernism, one made in New Mexico.

Deitch claims to be the first person to have bought Basquiat («five little drawings for $ 50 each»), midwifed the incredible ascent of Jeff Koons, forged the loss - leader gallery model of supporting exciting and attention - getting but deeply weird work with an aggressive backroom secondary - market hustle, helped give Art Basel Miami its bacchanalian gloss with his annual music - art extravaganzas (Fischerspooner, Devendra Banhart, Santigold, Chicks on Speed), and abetted the process by which the contemporary - art museum became a showcase and playroom for private collections, many of which he helped assemble, in part with work from artists he made stars: Vanessa Beecroft, Cecily Brown, Dan Colen, Shepard Fairey, and Miranda July, among many others.

Among those arrested over the weekend were Gorki Águila, leader of punk - rock band Porno para Ricardo, who was kept in a cell for 24 hours; and performance artist Tania Bruguera, detained for between one and two hours.

«She is a leader among a group of artists that are inspiring other artists and collectors to once again focus on figurative work in a new way.

Shainman, who has been a leader among those to bring artists of the African diaspora into the mainstream in New York, said he was most excited by the opportunity to «introduce new artists who have never been part of this conversation before.

Stanford, CA — Rolling Stone magazine has ranked Global Ecology's Ken Caldeira number 36 among 100 «artists and leaders, policymakers, writers, thinkers, scientists and provocateurs who are fighting...