LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Chair Judith Hamera
Executive Director Marion Friedman Young
LEWIS CENTER PROGRAM DIRECTORS
Paul Muldoon, Director, Princeton Atelier
Yiyun Li, Director, Program in Creative Writing
A.M. Homes, Acting Director, Program in Creative Writing
Rebecca Lazier, Acting Director, Program in Dance
Susan Marshall, Acting Associate Director, Program in Dance
Jane Cox, Director, Program in Theater and Music Theater
Stacy Wolf, Director of Fellowships
Elena Araoz, Producing Artistic Director, Theater and Music Theater Season
Jeff Whetstone, Director, Program in Visual Arts
Pam Lins, Associate Director, Program in Visual Arts
For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts or upcoming events, visit: arts.princeton.edu
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
CLASS DAY CELEBRATION
MONDAY, MAY 27, 2024
Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center
Princeton University’s LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
A Note from Judith Hamera Chair, Lewis Center for the Arts
Welcome to the Matthews Theatre in the McCarter Theatre Center, where we join family, friends, and members of the Lewis Center for the Arts community to celebrate the culmination of our students’ time with us. Our LCA Class of ’24 arrived amidst a global pandemic and departs amidst multiple global upheavals that, once again, challenge us all. Class of ’24, I hope your work in the LCA – your rigorous and generous collaborations, your pursuit of foundational questions around what it means to live a good and worthy life, your courage, and the care you extended to those with whom you shared this time – has given you multiple ways to see yourselves making positive differences in these complicated times, sustained by the conviction that you are part of a community of artist-scholars who can accompany you as you do so. Thank you for the work you did here, all good wishes for the important work ahead, and warm congratulations to you on behalf of the entire LCA.
Land Acknowledgement
The Lewis Center for the Arts is working to create a living land acknowledgement, one that is embodied in its consideration of—and engagement with—the past, present, and future. As we continue this work, we acknowledge that this building sits on land considered part of the ancient homelands of the Lenni-Lenape peoples and that this campus was built on this land with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples. We acknowledge that learning about history and making this statement isn’t enough. Equally important is our ongoing work to understand past harms; build awareness in present relationships and actions; and bring imagination, creative problem-solving, and community-building to the future of our programs. We are taking actions towards these goals within our curriculum, pedagogy, and programming. We invite you to learn more about the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton: indigenous.princeton.edu.
Princeton University’s LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING
Congratulations Class of 2024 Certificate Students!
Kenza Benazzouz, Juliette Carbonnier, Anna Chung, Arlette V. Cojab, Sydney Eck, Andi Grene, Ananya Grover, Sydney Hwang, Ashley Hyun, Sal Kang, Lara Katz, Sabrina Kim, Amanda Kural, Abbie Lambert, Kate Lee, Ellen Li, Ethan Luk, Hailey Mead, Zoe Montague, Tobias Nguyen, Anurag Pratap, Olivia Ragan, Claire Schultz, Mollika Jai Singh, Sierra Stern, Grady Trexler, Cathleen Weng, Emmett Willford, Henry Wright, Briony Zhao, Valeria Zuluaga-Sánchez
Senior Awards
Presentation of Awards and Prizes:
Ilya Kaminsky, Professor of Creative Writing
Theodore Weiss Award
This award was established in 2004 in memory of Professor Weiss, distinguished poet, founder and editor of the Quarterly Review of Literature, and Professor of English and Creative Writing. Presented annually to a promising young poet or, in exceptional circumstances, a fiction writer.
Tobias Nguyen
Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Poetry Prize
Established as part of a charitable trust created in 1999 by Bernice Holmes, this prize is in memory of her brother Theodore H. Holmes ’51. Presented each year to a single talented poet who is also an undergraduate student of Princeton University.
Ethan Luk
Outstanding Work by a Senior Award
This award was created to honor one or more outstanding seniors for distinctive achievement in Creative Writing.
Gloria Wang, Kenza Benazzouz, Henry Wright, Arlette V. Cojab, Madeleine Burns
Samuel Shellabarger Memorial Prize in Creative Writing
This fund is awarded annually to a senior who, in fulfillment of the senior thesis requirement, shows great promise of future literary excellence.
Anurag Pratap
Joyce Carol Oates Award
This prize was established in 2014 in the name of Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus; Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus. The prize is awarded annually to a promising young fiction writer or, in exceptional circumstances, a poet. Claire Schultz
Princeton University’s LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Princeton University’s LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
James Richardson Award
This prize was established in 2023 in the name of James Richardson, Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus. The prize is awarded annually to a student whose poetry speaks to Professor James Richardson’s work and to the spirit of his legendary course entitled “Life Is Short, Art Is Really Short.”
Ananya Grover
Edmund Keeley Literary Translation Award
This prize was established in 2016 in the name of Edmund Keeley, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus; Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emeritus. The prize is awarded to a promising young translator.
Ellen Li
PROGRAM IN DANCE
Congratulations Class of 2024 Certificate Students!
Haley Baird-Dibble, Olivia Buckhorn, Mei Cecilia Geller, Laura Maria Haubold, Ive Jumadeh Jones, Jewel Justice, Isabel Byers Kingston, Vivian Li, Zi Han Liu, Ethan Luk, Ayla-Rose Kapili’ulaokekaupoku Naehu-Ramos, Sanghyun “Chris” Park, Jasmine Minerva Rivers, Aniyah Storm Stokes, Kristen Umbriac, Julia Zhou
Senior Awards
Presentation of Awards and Prizes:
Rebecca Lazier, Professor of the Practice, Dance; Acting Director of Dance
Francis LeMoyne Page Class of 1922 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative Arts
This award was established in 1972 by the Trustees of the LeMoyne Page Foundation in memory of Francis LeMoyne Page, Class of 1922. Awarded annually to one or more members of the junior or senior class to honor distinctive achievement in the Creative Arts.
Zi Han Liu, Mei Cecilia Geller, Isabel Byers Kingston, Vivian Li
Outstanding Senior Independent Project Award
This award was created to honor one or more outstanding seniors for distinctive achievement in Dance.
Olivia Buckhorn
Haley Baird-Dibble
Ze’eva Cohen Senior Award
This award established in 2014 honors the Founding Director of the Program in Dance and is awarded to a student who began the study of dance in college and underwent an extraordinary transformation as an artist while contributing to the Dance Program. Sanghyun “Chris” Park
Sustained Community Achievement Award
This award deeply thanks seniors who have consistently invested in and generously supported the dance program community through dancing in other students’ theses, collaborating in other student led program work, serving as Student Advisors, and giving time to the Dance Program or Lewis Center through community actions that extend dance opportunities beyond the Princeton community.
Laura Maria Haubold
PROGRAM IN THEATER & MUSIC THEATER
Congratulations Class of 2024 Theater Certificate Students!
Kenza Benazzouz, Juliette Carbonnier, Sandra Chen, Sarah Duntley, Nica Evans, Kerstin Fagerstrom, Kira Fitzgerald, Lana Gaige, Sydney Hwang, Sabina Jafri, Taneyah Jolly, Cooper Kofron, Charlotte Kunesh, Madeleine LeBeau, Jessica Lopez, Ethan Luk, Anaika Mehra, Tanaka Dunbar Ngwara, Raquel Ramirez, Chloe Satenberg, Aneekah Uddin, Aaron Ventresca, Bethany Villaruz, Jay White
Congratulations Class of 2024 Music Theater Certificate Students!
Casey Beidel, Juliette Carbonnier, Sarah Duntley, Sydney Hwang, Carrington Johnson, Cooper Kofron, Charlotte Kunesh, Madeleine LeBeau, Ethan Luk, Tanaka Dunbar Ngwara, Aaron Ventresca, Jay White
Senior Awards
Presentation of Awards and Prizes:
Jane Cox, Director of Theater; Professor of the Practice, Theater
Francis LeMoyne Page Class of 1922 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative Arts
This award was established in 1972 by the Trustees of the LeMoyne Page Foundation in memory of Francis LeMoyne Page, Class of 1922. Awarded annually to one or more members of the junior or senior class to honor distinctive achievement in the Creative Arts.
Juliette Carbonnier
Innovation in Theater Making Award
Taneyah Jolly, Nica Evans
Outstanding Contribution to Theater
Excellence in creative contributions to our theater season and to course work, measured over the course of the student’s time as a certificate student.
Sydney Hwang
Creative and Community Leadership Award
Excellence in leadership of the LCA theater community over the course of the student’s time as a certificate student, with particular priority given to leadership inclusive of historically excluded portions of our theater community.
Madeleine LeBeau
Outstanding Work by a Senior in Theater
Aaron Ventresca, Anaika Mehra, Aneekah Uddin, Bethany Villaruz, Carrington Johnson, Casey Beidel, Charlotte Kunesh, Chloe Satenberg, Cooper Kofron, Ethan Luk, Jay White, Jessica Lopez, Juliette Carbonnier, Kenza Benazzouz, Kerstin Fagerstrom, Kira Fitzgerald, Lana Gaige, Madeleine LeBeau, Nica Evans, Raquel Ramirez, Sabina Jafri, Sandra Chen, Sarah Duntley, Sydney Hwang, Tanaka Dunbar Ngwara, Taneyah Jolly
Outstanding Contribution to Music Theater
Aaron Ventresca, Carrington Johnson
Tim Vasen Award for Talent and Citizenship Sabina Jafri
PROGRAM IN VISUAL ARTS
Congratulations Class of 2024 Certificate Students!
David Akpokiere, Miriam Beams, Arianna Borromeo, Hazel Flaherty, Sreesha Ghosh, Lana Glisic, Max Jakobsen, Petr Karpov, Erin Macanze, Kirsten Pardo, Warren Quan, Collin Riggins, Luke Shannon, Julia Stahlman, Justin Zhang, Noori Zubieta
Congratulations Class of 2024 Practice of Art (PoA) Students!
Daniel Drake, Evan Haley, Emma Mohrmann, Cary Moore, Ayla-Rose Kapili’ulaokekaupoku Naehu-Ramos, Lauren Olson, Magnolia Wilkinson
Senior Awards
Presentation of Awards and Prizes:
Jeff Whetstone, Director; Professor of Visual Arts
Lucas Award in Visual Arts
This award was established in 1998 by Herbert L. Lucas, Class of 1950 and was amended in 2004 to recognize excellence and the quality of a body of work by graduating seniors in painting, sculpture, photography, film, and media.
David Akpokiere, Miriam Beams, Arianna Borromeo, Daniel Drake, Hazel Flaherty
Sreesha Ghosh, Lana Glisic, Evan Haley, Petr Karpov, Erin Macanze, Emma Mohrmann
Cary Moore, Ayla-Rose Kapili’ulaokekaupoku Naehu-Ramos, Lauren Olson, Kirsten Pardo, Warren Quan, Luke Shannon, Julia Stahlman, Magnolia Wilkinson, Justin Zhang
Princeton
Jim Seawright Award in Visual Arts
Established in 2009 in honor of Jim Seawright, Professor of Visual Arts, Emeritus, this award is presented annually to a student whose work exemplifies exceptional originality or innovation in any media in the Program in Visual Arts.
Emma Mohrmann
LEWIS CENTER STUDENT AWARDS
Presentation of Awards and Prizes:
Judith Hamera, Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts; Professor of Dance
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
The prize is presented annually to one or more graduating seniors who have demonstrated excellence or the highest standard of proficiency, in performance or execution or in the field of composition in the following general areas: music, theater, dance, painting, sculpture or photography.
Tanaka Dunbar Ngwara
Ethan Luk
Toni Morrison Prize
This prize that honors Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize Laureate and Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, goes to one or more graduating seniors whose individual or collaborative artistic practice has pushed the boundaries and enlarged the scope of our understanding of issues of race. This prize honors work in any form that, in the spirit of Morrison’s, is “characterized by visionary force and poetic import.”
Aniyah Storm Stokes
Ayla-Rose Kapili’ulaokekaupoku Naehu-Ramos
Action Based Community Engagement Award
The prize is awarded to the student or students whose contributions to the Lewis Center embody a commitment to “interrogating that which is accepted or understood in an attempt to break into the territory of the unknown or under-explored.”
Jasmine Minerva Rivers
Magnolia Wilkinson