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: is a hybrid space for news updates, announcements, archival picks, and insights related to our own work and that of our wider community.![Nida Sinnokrot](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-27-at-2.58.16-PM-1172x749.png)
![Alia Farid. Photo by Abdullah Al Mutairi.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.38.02-AM-873x878.png)
Alia Farid: 2023-2024 David and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute
October 20, 2023
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Tomashi Jackson Awarded the 2023 Rappaport Prize
September 5, 2023
![A process image for HOOPS, a permanent basketball court located outside Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum that will be created by artist Marisa Morán Jahn codesigned with local residents, neighbors, and architect Rafi Segal.
Credit: Marisa Morán Jahn. Re/creation 2. Mixed media (remixed photos by John White, courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago History Museum, and David Schalliol), 2023. Courtesy of Sapar Contemporary.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BBallJacks-1172x870.png)
2023 Joyce Awards | HOOPS by Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal
June 8, 2023
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Christopher Joshua Benton Awarded Obermayer Prize for Academic Writing
May 30, 2023
![Reina Mun, “Creatures of the Current.” Video still. Courtesy of the artist.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CreaturesoftheCurrent-Reina-Mun_Page_7_Image_0002-e1683218657368.webp)
Reina Mun Receives 2023 Schnitzer Prize
May 19, 2023
![Renée Green. Space Poem 8.1 (Vide ma tête), 2022-2023, Barnard Library, New York. Installation view. Image: Guang Xu](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/01_RGreen_Space_Poem_8_1_Barnard-1172x878.jpg)
Renée Green Awarded 2023 Orzeck Fellowship at Barnard College, New York
April 25, 2023
![Suneil Sanzgiri, ‘Letter.’ Film still. Courtesy of Suneil Sanzgiri](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/surface-mag-suneil-sanzgiri-letter-still-1172x659.jpeg)
Suneil Sanzgiri wins UOVO Prize
April 20, 2023
![Alia Farid. Photo: Johanne Nyborg.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Alia-Farid.-Photo-Johanne-Nyborg.jpeg)
Alia Farid Wins Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award
April 4, 2023
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Christopher Benton | 2022 Emerging Visionary Grant
January 6, 2023
![Sueños Con Fibra/Madera (Dreams of Fiber/Wood), 2022. Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/P1033816_Sueños_Photoby_Marisa-Jahn_1200px.jpeg)
Marisa Morán Jahn News | 2022 Artist as Instigator Residency, Installations, Exhibition, and More
October 28, 2022
![What Time Is It? (GLB), 2022. Galerie der HFBK, Hamburg. Installation view. Image: Tim Albrecht](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/01_RGreen_Vide_ma_tete_HfbK-1172x781.jpg)