The Department of Music is thrilled to announce Assistant Professor of Music Yvette Janine Jackson has been named a recipient of the 2025 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Initiated and funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation, and administered by the California Institute of the Arts, the award honors and supports artists respected for their creativity, ingenuity, and bodies of work, at a moment in their lives when they are poised to propel their art in new and unpredictable directions. It is given annually to risk-taking mid-career artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre, and the visual arts.
The Music panel says of Jackson: “The Music panel celebrates composer and sound artist Yvette Janine Jackson for “the imaginative ways she synthesizes ideas that give shape to lived human experience, for her cinematic dramaturgy, and the deep relationship between research and expression always beautifully troubling and passionately felt, providing a pathway for understanding the complexities of our nation’s history.”
Congratulations, Professor Jackson!