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The Vanguard Award & Residency is an award and yearlong residency that celebrates the career of a singular artist who has contributed to American life and pop culture and is a part of the Joe’s Pub family of artists. This artist also sustains and leads their own artistic community while creating a body of work that stands apart from their peers. Additionally, the award answers to the music industry’s widening gaps in funding.
The 2023-2024 Joe’s Pub Vanguard Residency is awarded to five-time GRAMMY Award-winner Angélique Kidjo. Kidjo has cross-pollinated the West African traditions of her childhood in Benin with elements of American R&B, funk and jazz, as well as influences from Europe and Latin America.
The Angélique Kidjo Vanguard Residency series:
Michael Olatuja & Lagos Pepper Soup | September 27, 2023
Additional shows to be announced.
The 2018 Vanguard Award and Residency was awarded to Nona Hendryx. In 2019 the Vanguard Award & Residency was awarded to Judy Collins. In 2020 the Vanguard Award and Residency was awarded to Laurie Anderson, whose residency was interrupted by the global COVID-19 pandemic and continued until 2022. In our 2022-2023 season, The Vanguard Award was awarded posthumously to Barbara Maier Gustern.
New York Voices is Joe’s Pub at The Public’s artist commissioning program. As part of The Public Theater’s long history of cultivating the country’s most celebrated artists, this program supports the creation of new works by critically-acclaimed musicians and performers. New York Voices encourages artists to explore their storytelling, narratives and songwriting processes, and includes a variety of developmental and practical resources.
The program successfully connects artists with their contemporaries and significantly expands their ability to reach wider audiences. Many of the commissioned works have toured nationally and internationally.
"New York Voices has become an indispensable addition to The Public’s programs for developing new work."
-Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater
Our 2023-2024 commissions are by: Dan Fishback, Omar Offendum, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles.
New York Voices is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
JOE'S PUB WORKING GROUP(JPWG) aims to enrich the sustainability and growth of New York-based emerging and established artists’ careers by providing administrative resources, physical space and curatorial services, further cultivating a community atmosphere wherein those artists can create and sustain new and developing work.
The program was conceived to address the rapidly shifting state of the performing arts and help artists at a critical point in their careers. “Being an independent performing artist comes with a lot of responsibilities and needs beyond purely making art. This program is a way for us to address and decipher those things for artists in a space that is accessible and inclusive,” said Alex Knowlton, Director of Joe's Pub.
The current JPWG cohort is comprised of: Ellen Winter, Esraa Warda, Firas Zreik, and Queen Esther.
Ellen Winter
Esraa Warda
Firas Zreik
Queen Esther
NEW YORK VOICES ALUMNI
JOE'S PUB WORKING GROUP
CLASS OF 2015
Ali Grieb
Bridget Barkan
Danny Lipsitz
Larry Krone
Michael Mwenso
CLASS OF 2016
Celisse
Isaac Oliver
Kaylyn Marie
Stephanie McKay
Trish Nelson
CLASS OF 2017
Courtnee Roze
Erin Markey
Ike Ufomadu
Julian Velard
Shaina Taub
CLASS OF 2018
Dan Fishback
Dana Lyn
Juliette Jones
Samora Pinderhughes
Tori Scott
CLASS OF 2019
Becca Blackwell
Migguel Anggelo
Truth Bachman
Treya Lam
Yacine Boulares
CLASS OF 2020-2022
Jaime Lozano
Kirsten Maxwell
Roopa Mahadevan
Salty Brine
Sarah Elizabeth Charles
CLASS OF 2022-2023
J. Hoard
Lama El Homaïssi
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Olivia K
Roshni Samlal
Sita Chay