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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 2022-2023 Joe’s Pub Vanguard Residency is dedicated to the memory of singer and vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern, who directly and indirectly influenced innumerable performers in New York City and within the Joe’s Pub community. Ms. Gustern’s legacy of generosity, skilled technique, and joie de vivre will be celebrated throughout 2022-2023 season.
The Vanguard Residency series dedicated the memory of Barbara Maier Gustern:
Julian Fleisher: Four Seasons of Julian Fleisher | September 24, 2022
Machine Dazzle: Treasure | October 21, 2022
Penny Arcade: The Art of Becoming – Memories from a Long Exile at the Edge of Society. Episode 3 – 1967-1973: Superstar Interrupted | November 29 - December 1, 2022
Justin Vivian Bond: Oh Mary, it's Christmas! | December 16-18, 20-23, 2022
A Murray Little Christmas | December 13 - 17, 2022
Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again | January 12-20, 2023
Carol Lipnik: Heaven | March 2, 2023
A "Proper" Natti Vogel Concert | May 10, 2023
The Hot Sardines | May 30 & 31, 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.
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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. Each commission culminates with a run of live shows on the Joe’s Pub stage.
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 2022/2023 commissions are by: Bahia Watson & Liza Paul, Chris Pattishall & Vuyo Sotashe, Daniel J. Watts & Nick Blaemire, Sunny Jain, and treya lam.
New York Voices is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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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: J. Hoard, Lama El Homaïssi,LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Olivia K, Roshni Samlal, and Sita Chay.
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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