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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.
Laurie Anderson is the current recipient of The Joe’s Pub Vanguard Award & Residency. Her tenure, which began in 2020, was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and has been extended through summer 2022. The writer, director, visual artist, and vocalist is honored for her prolific career as a creative pioneer inspiring audiences with her groundbreaking works – daring multi-media presentations and innovative use of technology across the worlds of art, theater and experimental music.
Laurie Anderson's 2020 Curated Performance Series:
To The Moon by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang | Presented as part of the 2020 Under the Radar Festival | January 8 - January 19, 2020
The 2020 Joe's Pub Vanguard Gala | Honoring Laurie Anderson | February 3, 2020
Maya Hawke | March 8, 2020
Cosmo (Instrumental Project by Jesse Harris) ft. Jesse Harris, CJ Camerieri, Jeremy Gustin, Will Graefe, Michael Boschen, and Benjamin Lazar Davis | March 8, 2020
Ruckus featuring Samora Pinderhughes, Shaina Taub, The Illustrious Blacks and The Resistance Revival Chorus | September 26, 2020
Laurie Anderson's 2021 - 2022 Curated Performance Series:
Kludge featuring Anne Carson, Arto Lindsay, Rubin Kodheli, Lafcadio Cass, and Beauty Pill | October 12-16, 2021
yMusic | February 13, 2022
Rubin Kodheli Trio with Trevor Dunn & Brian Chase / Abbie from Mars | March 13, 2022
Kaoru Watanabe & LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs | April 10, 2022
The 2018 Vanguard Award and Residency was awarded to Nona Hendryx. In 2019 the Vanguard Award & Residency was awarded to Judy Collins.
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 2021/2022 commissions are by: Alicia Hall Moran, Bahia Watson & Liza Paul, Haig Papazian, Sunny Jain, and Yacine Boulares.
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, formed in 2020 and extended through summer 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is comprised of: Salty Brine, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Jaime Lozano, Roopa Mahadevan, and Kirsten Maxwell.
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
JOE'S PUB PHILADELPHIA
An annual Philadelphia-based residency for musical storytellers. Artist-residents represented the breadth and diversity of the work performed on the Joe’s Pub stage, and were encouraged to produce work that resonates far beyond it.
Ethan Lipton’s The Outer Space represents a wonderful example of the program’s success. The New York Times Critic’s Pick was initially explored at Joe’s Pub Philadelphia in 2015. In 2017 it was performed as part of The Public Theater’s season as a full production on the Joe’s Pub stage.
The 2019 cohort was focused on text, voice, music, and body, and how these elements are woven together into musical and theatrical storytelling. Artists were challenged to transcend their rehearsal limitations and plumb the depths of long-form narrative, with strategic guidance from Joe's Pub, the Kimmel Center,, and Dael Orlandersmith (Mentor & Playwright in Residence), in addition to their mentor partners. The residency culminated in excerpt performances at the Kimmel Center that were free for the public to attend.