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Following his recent Pulitzer Prize for music in 2022, Diné/Chicano artist and composer Raven Chacon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship of $800,000 on Oct. 4

Well deserved! This years 2016 USA Artist Fellowship Winners include Native artists Teri Greeves, Raven Chacon and Steve Paul Judd

Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University will present the Impossible Music exhibition that brings together sounds, scores, sculptures, video, and live performances to extend discourses on conceptual and experimental music and explore its intersections across different art forms.

An excerpt from Raven Chacon’s performance Solos, followed by a conversation with Xenia Benivolski, recorded live at e-flux on April 27. Solos, is a series of short, improvised works performed in quick succession. Using a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, Chacon’s experimental compositions range from sparse, minimalistic soundscapes to complex, multi-layered works that incorporate voices, noises, and found sounds.

This year’s recipients are Margeaux Abeyta, Rachel Martin, Brent Michael Davids, Lucy Grignon, Dr. Suzanne Kite and Emily Johnson.