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Oscar-Winning Director, Artist To Receive Brettell Arts Award
Domee Shi, an Academy Award-winning director and artist, has been selected to receive the 2023 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Spalding To Receive 2021 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts
Four-time Grammy winner and jazz bassist, singer, songwriter and composer esperanza spalding has been selected to receive the 2021 Richard Brettell Award in the Art at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Distinguished Diplomat Named Recipient of Brettell Award in the Arts
Mexican diplomat Jorge Alberto Lozoya has been selected to receive the 2019 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Brettell Award in the Arts 2019 Recipient Ambassador Jorge Alberto Lozoya
Jorge Alberto Lozoya is the rarest of rare breeds— a lifelong cultural diplomat, who has brought his native Mexico onto the world stage through its art, architecture, literature, cuisine, and music.
UTD lands a major arts award, courtesy of 105-year-old philanthropist Margaret McDermott
UTD is the latest to receive one more example of Margaret McDermott’s generosity, that being the Richard Brettell Award in the Arts, which, every other year, beginning April 9, will bestow an award of $150,000 upon an artist “whose body of work demonstrates a lifetime of achievement in their field.”
UT-Dallas’ New $150,000 Arts Prize Goes To… The Designer Of The UTD Campus
[Walker] is one of the world’s leading landscape architects, the man behind the Nasher Sculpture Garden, for instance, as well as the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City… And as you’ll see, the choice of Walker is meant as a statement, not a bit of self-congratulation.
Landscape architect Peter Walker, known worldwide, wins inaugural Brettell Award in the Arts
I can say without fear of contradiction that Peter Walker is the dean of American landscape architects. Still vital in his early 80s, he and his firm work actively in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. A simple list of their landscape designs at all scales would fill pages.
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