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The Vilcek Foundation Awards Prizes to Immigrants and Visionaries in Fashion, Art History and Science

The Vilcek Foundation Awards Prizes to Immigrants and Visionaries in Fashion, Art History and Science

Our Mission - Vilcek Foundation

Our Mission - Vilcek Foundation

Andrew Bolton - Vilcek Foundation

Andrew Bolton - Vilcek Foundation

Edwidge Danticat - Vilcek Foundation

Edwidge Danticat - Vilcek Foundation

Valeria Luiselli - Vilcek Foundation

Valeria Luiselli - Vilcek Foundation

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Silvi Rouskin - Vilcek Foundation

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Jing Liu - Vilcek Foundation

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🎨 The Vilcek Foundation is delighted to host artist Geoff McFetridge—@mcfetridge—as part of our New American Perspectives program at the 43rd Annual Hawai’i International Film Festival—@HIFFHawaii. The program shines a spotlight on immigrant and first-generation artists’ contributions to cinema and the arts more broadly. As part of this year’s program, the foundation will support a screening of “Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life” followed by a master class with the artist moderated by Jasper Won

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📣 Call for Applications: In 2024, The Vilcek Foundation will award three prizes of $50,000 each to rising immigrant designers in digital design, graphic design, product design, or social design.⁣ ⁣ Immigrant designers living and working in the United States are encouraged to apply for a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Design by June 12, 2023.⁣ ⁣ Learn more and start your application at the Linkin.bio in our Instagram profile.⁣ ⁣ #3dprinting #apply #applynow #autocad #award #awardopportunit

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The Vilcek Foundation was in LA recently, and they stopped by RASARUMAH.food — a Chinese Malaysian-inspired restaurant by Chef Johnny Lee 🌟 One of the immigrant chefs featured in our cookbook, A Place at the Table, Lee opened Rasarumah almost a year ago in Historic Filipinotown as a way to explore the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia through flavors 🍽️ ✨ We can’t wait to go back! Make sure to pop in if you’re in the area — and for more by Chef Lee, check out our cookbook, A Place at the Tabl

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The Vilcek Foundation celebrates immigrant contributions to the American arts and sciences. | The Vilcek Foundation

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🇩🇴 🎬 Ramon Tejada (b. Dominican Republic) receives The Vilcek Foundation Prize in Design for his leadership and commitment to accessibility and decolonization in design practices. 📐 Tejada is a graphic designer and an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. His pedagogical approach that centers collaboration, inclusion, and radical innovation.⁣ 🗽 Tejada is also actively involved with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), a NY-based group centered on expa

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Meet Vilcek Prizewinner in Biomedical Science Angelika Amon! Our short documentary delves into the life of the Austrian-born Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, her love of studying yeast cells, and the potential her genetic research has to provide more effective cancer treatments. | The Vilcek Foundation

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Marcus Samuelsson lived in six countries before he was 22. Born in Ethiopia and adopted by Swedish parents, he worked in kitchens around the globe before coming to the U.S. to cook at Aquavit NYC. But when he established the Red Rooster Harlem, the Vilcek Prizewinner set his sights close to home: He wanted to create a restaurant that would revitalize the local community. | The Vilcek Foundation

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When Amit Choudhary arrived in the United States to pursue graduate studies in biophysics, he was amazed by the warmth, welcome, and wealth of opportunity offered “even to non-citizens,” he says. Now, the 2019 Creative Promise Prizewinner is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, where he is investigating new ways to treat diseases that impact the world’s most impoverished people, such as diabetes and malaria. | The Vilcek Foundation

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Carmen C. Bambach, the winner of the inaugural Vilcek Prize for Excellence, has always loved Renaissance art. When she was a girl living in Chile, she would spend hours copying Michelangelo drawings--a practice which would later help her identify a previously mislabeled drawing as a preparatory sketch for the Sistine Chapel. Now as a curator of Spanish and Italian drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, she organizes exhibitions that help others see the works of Renaissance masters

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🥳 🎂 🎉 Join us as we wish a Very Happy 91st Birthday to our founder, Jan Vilcek! Your vision, leadership, and philanthropy inspires us every day! Learn more about Jan's inspiring life and work at The Vilcek Foundation: https://vilcek.org/about/the-vilcek-foundation-a-realization-of-the-american-dream/ | The Vilcek Foundation

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🎉 Congratulations to HHMI Investigator Luciano Marraffini who was awarded The Vilcek Foundation 2024 Prize in Biomedical Science for uncovering the molecular mechanisms by which CRISPR-Cas systems provide bacteria with adaptive immunity against viral infections, and for his investigations into applications of CRISPR-Cas for genome editing. 🔗 https://hhmi.news/3SOWv14 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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✅ "Pueblo Pottery: Stories in Clay" is nominated for a People's Voice Award at the 2024 Webby Awards! Register & Vote by April 18 at the following link: https://vilcek.co/webby #Webbys | The Vilcek Foundation

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Our Curatorial Fellow Olivia Wrobleski discusses one of the most unexpected yet crucial parts of artist Il Lee's process—ballpoint pens. Lee is the featured artist in our latest exhibition "Il Lee—Energy and Flow: Abstraction of Movement" now open at the Vilcek Foundation in NYC! Book a free visit today: https://vilcek.co/4kAxxOn #IlLee #ArtInstallation #BehindTheScenes #ContemporaryArt #VilcekFoundation | The Vilcek Foundation

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From architecture to the runway 🧵✨ This New York Fashion Week we spotlight Siki Im, 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fashion. Born in Cologne, Germany, to Korean immigrant parents, Im draws on his architectural training and fascination with globalization, cultural theories, and sociology to create menswear that is both conceptually rich and meticulously crafted. Now based in New York, he leads his eponymous brand SIKI IM, designing collections that challenge conventions and redefine mo

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Please silence your cellphones—the movie is about to start 🍿 👀 We are thrilled to introduce this year's #NewAmericanPerspectives filmmakers! Made possible with a grant from the Vilcek Foundation, New American Perspectives (NAP) highlights immigrant filmmakers at the Hawai'i International Film Festival (HIFF) through screenings, talks, and programs presented to festival audiences. This year is particularly special, as Hawai‘i International Film Festival celebrates their 45th anniversary and the

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