The Macarthur Foundation has announced the recipients of the Genius Grants for 2017.
Macarthur Foundation’s Genius Grants has it awarding individuals that show creativity. These individuals are evaluated to determine their future potential. The organization typically hands out the grant to 20 to 30 people every year.
There are a couple of requirements that people must meet to be nominated for the Macarthur Foundation Genius Grant. The first is that they must be a resident or citizen of the United States. The second is that they can’t hold elective office or advanced positions in government.
Each recipient gets $625,000 that is paid out quarterly over five years. The Macarthur Foundation doesn’t require anything from recipients of the Genius Grant once they have been chosen. This means there aren’t evaluations in the five years after they receive the award.
Here are the Macarthur Foundation’s Genius Grant recipients for 2017.
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby — Painter
- Sunil Amrith — Historian
- Greg Asbed — Humans Right Strategist
- Annie Baker — Playwright
- Regina Barzilay — Computer Scientist
- Dawoud Bay — Photographer and Educator
- Emmanuel Candes — Mathematician and Statistician
- Jason De Leon — Anthropologist
- Rhiannon Giddens — Singer, Instrumentalist and Songwriter
- Nikole Hannah-Jones — Journalist
- Cristina Jimenez Moreta — Social Justice Organizer
- Taylor Mac — Theater Artist
- Rami Nashashibi — Community Leader
- Viet Thanh Nguyen — Fiction Writer and Cultural Critic
- Kate Orff — Landscape Architect
- Trevor Paglen — Artist and Geopgrapher
- Betsy Levy Paluck — Psychologist
- Derek Peterson — Historian
- Damone Rich — Designer and Urban Planner
- Stefan Savage — Computer Scientist
- Yuval Sharon — Opera Director/Producer
- Tyshawn Sorey — Composer and Musician
- Gabriel Victora — Immunologist
- Jesmyn Ward — Fiction Writer
You can
follow this link to learn more about the Genius Grant recipients that the Macarthur Foundation has chosen for 2017.
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