USA
Fellows

USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, in all disciplines, at every stage of their career. 

Each year, individual artists and collaboratives are anonymously nominated to apply by a geographically diverse and rotating group of artists, scholars, critics, producers, curators, and other arts professionals. Applications are reviewed by discipline-specific panels who select the finalists, which are then approved by our Board of Trustees. A full list of our panelists can be found here.

2012 USA Fellow
Writing

Adrian Castro

Poet and Performance Artist
Miami, FL
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Theater & Performance

Adrienne Kennedy

Playwright
Williamsburg, VA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Writing

Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction Writer
Chicago, IL
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

Alison Saar

Sculptor and Installation Artist
Los Angeles, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Writing

Annie Proulx

Fiction Writer
Saratoga, WY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Theater & Performance

Annie-B Parson

Theater Director
Brooklyn, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Film

Barry Jenkins

Filmmaker
Oakland, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Writing

C.E. Morgan

Fiction Writer
Berea, KY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Music

Claire Lynch

Singer and Songwriter
Nashville, TN
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

Coco Fusco

Visual Artist
Brooklyn, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Music

Colin Jacobsen and Eric Jacobsen

Composers / Violinist and Cellist
Brooklyn, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

David Hartt

Multimedia Artist
Chicago, IL
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Theater & Performance

David Henry Hwang

Playwright
Brooklyn, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Dance

David Thomson

Dancer and Choreographer
Brooklyn, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

Edgar Heap of Birds

Visual Artist
Oklahoma City, OK
2012 USA Fellow
Edward White
2012 USA Fellow
Music

Edward White

Composer
Louisville, KY
2012 USA Fellow
Eugene Rodriguez
2012 USA Fellow
Music

Eugene Rodriguez

Mexican Folk Musician
Richmond, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Theater & Performance

Guillermo Gomez-Peña

Performance Artist
San Francisco, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Music

Jack DeJohnette

Drummer, Pianist, and Composer
Willow, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Media

Jacqueline Goss

Filmmaker and Animator
Tivoli, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Architecture & Design

Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto

Architects
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Music

Joanie Madden

Traditional Irish Flutist and Composer
Yonkers, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Theater & Performance

John Kelly

Multidisciplinary Artist and Performer
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Architecture & Design

Kate Orff

Landscape Architect
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Dance

Keith Hennessy

Dancer and Choreographer
San Francisco, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

Kerry Tribe

Multimedia Artist
Los Angeles, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Craft

Kurt Weiser

Ceramicist
Tempe, AZ
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Dance

Kyle Abraham

Dancer and Choreographer
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Writing

LeAnne Howe

Writer
Athens, GA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Film

Lee Isaac Chung

Multigenre Writer
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Traditional Arts

Leon Niehues

Basketmaker
Huntsville, AR
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

Luis Camnitzer

Conceptual Artist
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Architecture & Design

Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich

Architects
Los Angeles, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Theater & Performance

Marcus Gardley

Poet and Playwright
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Film

Margaret Brown

Documentary Filmmaker
Mobile, AL
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Writing

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Fiction Writer
Berkeley, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Craft

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray

Metalsmith
Stone Ridge, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Traditional Arts

Nicholas Galanin

Multidisciplinary Artist
Sitka, AK
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Media

Nicholas van der Kolk

Podcaster
Berkeley, CA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Media

Phil Solomon

Experimental Filmmaker
Broomfield, CO
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Dance

Ranee Ramaswamy

Bharatanatyam Dancer
Minneapolis, MN
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Film

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia

Filmmakers
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Theater & Performance

Robbie McCauley

Playwright, Actor, and Theater Director
Boston, MA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Craft

Rowland Ricketts

Textile Artist
Bloomington, IN
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Craft

Sibylle Peretti

Glass Artist
New Orleans, LA
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Architecture & Design

Stephen Luoni

Architect and Designer
Fayetteville, AR
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

Theaster Gates

Social Practice Artist
Chicago, IL
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Music

Tony Trischka

Banjo Player
Fair Lawn, NJ
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Dance

Trisha Brown

Choreographer
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow
2012 USA Fellow
Visual Art

William Leavitt

Conceptual Artist
Los Angeles, CA
2012 USA Fellow