Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) announced today the second group of individuals to receive Doris Duke Impact Awards. The award is part of the larger Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, launched in late 2011 as a special 10-year initiative of the foundation to empower, invest in and celebrate artists by offering flexible, multi-year funding in response to financial challenges that are specific to the performing arts. Each recipient of a Doris Duke Impact Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a total of $3.2 million in Impact Awards to 40 artists in the fields of jazz, dance and theatre.
Ben Cameron, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, said, "The Doris Duke Impact Awards are based on nominations submitted by artists, identifying others (often less widely known) that will have enormous impact on the jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future. This year’s group is a thrilling one: we are honored to support them and look forward, not only to how they will use their funds, but to the ways they will shape and change the performing arts in the future...."