MacArthur Foundation Fellows 2021

The MacArthur Foundation has announced the 25 visionaries who make up its 2021 class of Fellows. Among them are:

• Alex Rivera. Filmmaker and Media Artist. One of his works (with partner Cristina Ibarra, below), The Infiltrators, I just watched a few months ago. It’s a fantastic exploration into immigration detention.
• Don Mee Choi. Poet and Translator. “Bearing witness to the effects of military violence and U.S. imperialism on the civilians of the Korean Peninsula.”
• Cristina Ibarra. Documentary Filmmaker. She focuses on “nuanced and compelling narratives about Latino families living in borderland communities.” (She partnered with Alex Rivera, another MacArthur fellow, on the Infiltrators).
• Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Choreograph and Dance Entrepreneur “using the power of dance and artistic expression to celebrate the voices of Black women and promote civic engagement and community organizing. She 2011 work Visible focused on “the immigrant’s search for home and sense of self.”

-KitJ