(Photos: Gavin Benjamin, a 2020 Demarest Award winner, announced in Aug. 2021. Image by Benjamin Brady.; Ayana Ross, 2024 winner; Aldwyth, 2018; Daniela Kovacic, 2020.)

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Awardees must have produced significant work in their fields and demonstrate special promise for future achievement. From 1923-2009, the awards were overseen by a committee at a private foundation. In 2010, the fund came to our Foundation. Awardees are now selected by a Pittsburgh-based committee.

Important info: Demarest Fund nominees MUST be nominated from by a nominator or an institution before applying. Applications without an accompanying nomination will not be accepted.

More than 50 individuals have received the award, including artistic luminaries like painter Jackson Pollock (1948), poet Robert Duncan (1975), sculptor Carol Rubenstein (1979), painter Brendan O’Connell (2003), singer/poet Latasha Nevada Diggs (2008), and dancer/choreographer Kyle Abraham (2012).

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