Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes several hundred awards in each of two separate competitions:

• one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.
• the other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to "advanced professionals in mid-career" such as published authors. The fellows may spend the money as they see fit, as the purpose is to give fellows "blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible", but they should also be "substantially free of their regular duties". Applicants are required to submit references as well as a CV and portfolio.

The Foundation receives between 3,500 and 4,000 applications each year. Approximately 220 Fellowships are awarded each year.^[1] The amounts of grants vary and will be adjusted to the needs of Fellows, considering their other resources and the purpose and scope of their plans. The average amount of Fellowship grants in the 2008 United States and Canada competition was approximately $43,200. ^[2]

Lists of Guggenheim Fellows[link]

See also[link]

• MacArthur Fellows Program

References[link]

External links[link]

• List of Guggenheim Fellows

Shelby Lee Adams (born 1950)^[1] is an American environmental portrait photographer and artist best known for his images of Appalachian family life.

Life and career[link]

Adams has photographed Appalachian families since the mid-1970s.^[2] He had first encountered the poor families of the Appalachian mountains as a child, travelling around the area with his uncle, who was a doctor.^[3] His work has been published in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), and Appalachian Lives (2003).

[edit] The True Meaning of Pictures

Adams was the subject of a documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal in 2002 - The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams's Appalachia. This was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, and at the Sundance Festival in 2003.^[4][5] The film critiques and defends Adams' method in photographing holler dwellers for his previously published books.

Awards[link]

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Books by Adams[link]

• Appalachian Portraits. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. ISBN 0-87805-646-7; ISBN 0-87805-667-X.
• Appalachian Legacy: Photographs. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. ISBN 1-57806-048-6; ISBN 1-57806-049-4.
• Appalachian Lives. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. ISBN 1-57806-540-2.
• Salt and Truth. Richmond, Va.: Candela, 2011. ISBN 0-9845739-1-7.

Permanent collections[link]

• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago^[6]
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago^[7]
• International Center of Photography, New York^[8]
• Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne^[9]
• Museum of Modern Art, New York^[8]
• Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts^[8][10]
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa^[7]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[11]
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC^[12][8]
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam^[7]
• Time Life Collection, Rockefeller Center, New York^{[citation needed]}
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[13]
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York^[8]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Adams's website
• The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia at the Internet Movie Database 2002.

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Lee Richard Adams (born August 14, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse.

Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Adams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University and a Master's from Columbia University.

Adams won Tony Awards in 1961 for Bye Bye Birdie and in 1970 for Applause. In addition, he wrote the lyrics for All American, Golden Boy, It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, Bring Back Birdie, and A Broadway Musical, and the book and lyrics for Ain't Broadway Grand. Additionally, Strouse and Adams co-wrote "Those Were the Days", the opening theme to the TV situation comedy All in the Family.

Adams was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989.

Works[link]

• Bye Bye Birdie (1960)
• All American (1962)
• Golden Boy (1964)
• It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (1966)
• Applause (1970)
• I and Albert (1972)
• Bring Back Birdie (1980)
• A Broadway Musical (1982), contributed the song Dancing
• Aint Broadway Grand! (1993)

References[link]

• Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7876-3995-2 

External links[link]

• Lee Adams at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lee Adams at the Songwriters Hall of Fame

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Deborah Willis may refer to:

• Deborah Willis (artist), American artist, photographer and educator
• Deborah Willis (Canadian author), Canadian short story writer

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Geri Allen
Background information
Born	(1957-06-12) June 12, 1957 (age 55) Pontiac, Michigan United States
Genres	Jazz, Post bop, Blues music, Funk, Gospel
Occupations	Musician Professor producer
Instruments	Piano
Years active	1982–present
Labels	Motema Music Polygram Storyville Blue Note Telarc
Associated acts	Timeline
Website	www.GeriAllen.com

Geri Allen (born June 12, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Betty Carter, and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be her parents, Mount Vernell Allen Jr, and Barbara Jean Allen, and her primary musical influences to be, mentors Marcus Belgrave, Donald Waldon, and Betty Carter, as well as pianists, Herbie Hancock, Mary Lou Williams, Hank Jones, Alice Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Bud Powell and mentor, Dr. Billy Taylor. Allen is an Associate Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation in the School Of Music Theatre & Dance, at the University Of Michigan.

Biography[link]

Allen received her early music education at the famed Cass Technical High School in Detroit and the Jazz Development Workshop, where her mentor was the highly regarded trumpeter/teacher Marcus Belgrave.^[1] In 1979, Allen earned her bachelor's degree in jazz studies from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She studied under composer Thomas Kerr, and pianists Raymond Jackson, John Malachi, Fred Irby, Arthur Dawkins, and Komla Amoaku. After graduation, she moved to New York City, where she studied with the veteran bop pianist Kenny Barron. From there, at the behest of the jazz educator Nathan Davis, Allen attended the University of Pittsburgh, earning a master's degree in ethnomusicology,^[1] returning to New York in 1982, and began touring with Mary Wilson and the Supremes. In the mid-'80s, Allen became a charter member of both the Black Rock Coalition and the Brooklyn M-Base movement^[1] a collective including saxophonist Steve Coleman, and other significant contributors. Allen played on several of Coleman's albums, including his first, 1985's Motherland Pulse, and Coleman also played on her composition "The Dancer" on the LP, "In The Middle" (released in 1986), which featured veteran tap dancer, Lloyd Story. Allen also composed "The Glide Was In The Ride", performed by The Steve Coleman Group, listed on the New Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz.

Allen's own first album, The Printmakers, with Anthony Cox and Andrew Cyrille, from a year earlier, showcased the pianist's more avant-garde tendencies. In 1988 came Etudes, a cooperative trio effort with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. In 1995, she was the first recipient of Soul Train’s Lady of Soul Award for jazz album of the year for Twenty-One, featuring Tony Williams and Ron Carter, and the first woman, and youngest person to receive the Danish "Jazz Par Prize". Allen continued to push the improvisational envelope with Sound Museum, a 1996 recording made under the leadership of Ornette Coleman. The Gathering followed in 1998. The Life of a Song was recorded with veterans Dave Holland on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. Her 2010 album "Flying Toward the Sound" was rated one of the Best Of 2010 on NPR, Downbeat, All About Jazz, and the Village Voice's Jazz Critics' Poll that year.^[2]"Timeless Portraits and Dreams" featured NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Cobb and Ron Carter, as well as opera icon George Shirley singing "Lift Every Voice and Sing", saxophonist and mentor Donald Walden, vocalist Carmen Lundy, and the Atlanta Jazz Chorus under the direction of composer/multi-reedist Dwight Andrews.

In 2006, Allen was commissioned to compose "For The Healing Of The Nations" a Sacred Jazz Suite for Voices, written in Tribute to the Victims, Survivors and Their Families of the 9/11 Tragedy. The Suite was performed by Howard University's award winning Afro-Blue Jazz Choir, under direction of Connaitre Miller. Oliver Lake, Craig Harris, Andy Bey, Dwight Andrews, Mary Stallings, Carmen Lundy, Nneena Freelon, Jay Hoggard, and other jazz greats also participated. The poetry was contributed by Sandra Turner-Barnes.

Geri Allen took part in a documentary film titled "Live Music, Community & Social Conscience" (2007) while performing at the Frog Island Music Festival in Michigan. A documentary film that looks at how music connects us to our humanity, and to each other regardless of borders, politics, culture economics, or religion. Allen contributed original music to the documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, director Lisa Gay Hamilton, which received a Peabody Award. Also, Allen contributed orchestrations to Andy Bey's "American Song" which was nominated for a Grammy Award. She was the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship.^[3]Allen's composition "Refractions", was released, in response to her Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition, as "Flying Towards The Sound" along with three short art films by film maker/photographer, Carrie Mae Weems, for Motema Music in 2010. "Geri Allen & Timeline Live" her second recording for Motema, featured bassist Kenny Davis, drummer Kassa Overall and tap dancer Maurice Chestnut, and was released simultaneously with "Flying Toward The Sound".

Allen received the "African-American Classical Music Award" from the Women of the New Jersey Chapter of Spelman College, and also received "A Salute To African-American Women: Phenomenal Woman" from the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Epsilon Chapter at the University of Michigan, in 2008. Allen received a nomination in 2011 for the NAACP Image Award for Best Jazz Album, "Geri Allen & Timeline Live". She was also nominated for both The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in 2011 under the Live Performance Album category^[4], and for "Best Jazz Pianist", by the Jazz Journalists Association.

Ms. Allen performed this year in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monument Unveiling Concert, "A Theatrical & Musical Celebration Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., MLK: A Monumental Life", presented in Constitution Hall, by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Geri Allen currently teaches as Associate Professor of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation at the School Of Music Theatre & Dance, at the University Of Michigan.^[5]

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

As sidewoman[link]

This section requires expansion.

With Betty Carter

• Droppin' Things (Verve, 1993)
• Feed the Fire (Verve, 1993)

With Ornette Coleman

• Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)
• Sound Museum: Three Women (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)

With Steve Coleman

• Motherland Pulse (JMT, 1985)
• And Five Elements: On the Edge of Tomorrow (JMT, 1986)
• And Five Elements: World Expansion (JMT, 1986)
• And Five Elements: Sine Die (Pangaea, 1986) on one track only

With Charlie Haden

• Etudes (Soul Note, 1987)
• The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (Verve, 1989 [1997])
• The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Verve, 1989 [1999])

With Oliver Lake

• Expandable Language (Black Saint, 1984)

With Charles Lloyd

• Lift Every Voice (ECM, 2002)
• Jumping the Creek (ECM, 2004)

With Paul Motian

• Monk in Motian (JMT, 1988)

With Dewey Redman

• Living on the Edge (Black Saint, 1989)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Geri Allen at Motéma Music
• Geri Allen at All About Jazz
• Geri Allen at NPR Music
• Jazz Conversations with Eric Jackson: Geri Allen from WGBH Radio Boston
• Geri Allen at Rhapsody