New music ensemble eighth blackbird
Meadows School of the Arts has selected two recipients of the inaugural 2009-10 Meadows Prize, a new international arts residency. Recipients are the Grammy-winning new music ensemble eighth blackbird and the New York-based artist collective Creative Time.
“To help make Dallas a great cultural capital, we also must become known as a center for the creation of new works, building a community that nurtures its own and tolerates artistic risk the same way we embrace entrepreneurial risk,” says Meadows Dean José Bowen. “To further that goal, in partnership with the Dallas arts community, the new Meadows Prize will bring artists with an international reputation to Dallas each year to produce an artistic legacy for the city.”
The prize includes housing and expenses for a one- to three-month residency in Dallas, in addition to a $25,000 stipend. In return, recipients will interact with Meadows students and collaborating arts organizations. They also will leave a lasting legacy for Dallas that may take the form of a work of art, a composition or piece of dramatic writing to be performed locally, or a new way of teaching.
The Meadows Prize replaces the Meadows Award, given annually from 1981 to 2003 to an artist at the pinnacle of a distinguished career.