Initiated and funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation and administered by California Institute of the Arts since 1994, the Alpert Award in the Arts provides unrestricted annual prizes to five mid-career artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre and the visual arts.

REDCAT presentations of work by Alpert Award recipients are made possible in part through the generous support of the foundation. Alpert Award artists featured at REDCAT include Paul Chan, Rinde Eckert, Pat Graney, Carl Hancock Rux, Vijay Iyer, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Anne LeBaron, Ralph Lemon, Victoria Marks, Bill Morrison, René Tajima-Peña and Walid Raad, among others.

To learn more about the award, visit alpertawards.org.