GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION FELLOWS

The Guggenheim Foundation has announced the recipients of its United States and Canada Fellowship Awards for 2005. The winners include 186 artists, scholars, and scientists for awards totaling $7,112,000. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future achievement. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of advisers and are approved by the Foundation’s board of trustees.

These are the fellows who either work or reside in New York state:

Anne Aghion, filmmaker; Michael Almereyda, filmmaker; Sarah Arvio, poetry; Michael J. Balick, philecology curator and director, Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden; Chakaia Booker, sculptor; Paul Spencer Byard, director, Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; Bonnie Collura, artist; Vincent Crapanzano, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Marilyn Crispell, composer and musician; Tory Dent, poet; Dave Douglas, composer and musician; Gina Gionfriddo, playwright; Stanley Greenberg, photographer; Yotam Haber, composer; Brooks Hansen, fiction writer; Adam Haslett, fiction writer; Lisa Kron, playwright; Arnold Krupat, Professor of Literature and Global Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, Sze Tsung Leong, photographer; Stanley Lewis, artist, Instructor in Painting, New York Studio School and Chautauqua School of Painting; Tricia McLaughlin, Adjunct Professor of Computer Graphics, Hunter College, City University of New York; Daniel Mendel sohn, translator; Nicholas Micros, sculptor; Lynn Nottage, playwright; Han Ong, fiction writer; Elaine Reichek, artist; Louis Rosen, composer, Distinguished Lecturer in Music Theory, History, and Appreciation Studies, 92nd Street YM-YWHA School of Music; Philip Schultz, Founding Director, The Writers Studio; Christopher Shinn, Instructor in Play Writing, Actors Studio, New School University; Shelly Silver, Member of the Adjunct Faculty, School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Mark Slouka, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Columbia University; Kimi Takesue, filmmaker; Andrew Waggoner, composer; and Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging and of Africana Studies, New York University.