Selection Process
Hermitage National Artist Curatorial Committee
Joseph V. Melillo - Chair
Executive Producer, Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Dr. Anthony Bannon - Director, George Eastman House
- Dan Cameron - Curator, Prospect 1
- Anne Cattaneo - Literary Manager, Lincoln Center Theater
- Michael Bigelow Dixon - Resident Director, Playwright's Center; former Literary Manager, Guthrie Theatre
- Linda Golding - President, The Reservoir; former President/CEO Boosey & Hawkes USA
- Christopher Merrill - Director International Writing Program, University of Iowa
- Chris Offutt, Novelist
- Colleen Jennings-Roggnsack - V.P. Programs, Arizona State University
- Barbara Shepherd - Director, National Partnership Program, John F. Kennedy Center
2009 Greenfield Prize Committees
Greenfield Prize Drama Committee
- Michael Bigelow Dixon, Chair. Resident Director, Playwrights Center, Minneapolis. Former Literary Manager, Guthrie Theatre
- Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater
- Jim Houghton, Artistic Director, The Signature Theater; Director, Julliard Drama School
- Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director, Asolo Repertory Theatre (non-voting)
- Joni Greenfield, The Greenfield Foundation (non-voting)
Greenfield Prize Music Committee
- Linda Golding, Chair. Founder, The Reservoir. Former President, Boosey & Hawkes USA Music Publishers
- Wu Han, Co-artistic Director, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Ed Harsh, President, Meet The Composer
- Leif Bjaland, Artistic Director, The Sarasota Orchestra (non-voting)
- Joni Greenfield, The Greenfield Foundation (non-voting)
The Process:
The Prize Committee
The Greenfield Prize process begins with the Hermitage National Artist Selection Committee - the advisory committee listed below which selects all artists for residencies at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Each committee member invites artists from his or her core discipline.
This artist selection committee chooses the artistic discipline to be commissioned in June of each year.
The discipline representative for the commissioned discipline becomes the voting chair of the prize committee, charged with recruiting two other voting members from the field.
The three-person voting committee is joined by the non-voting artistic leader of the Producing Partner, the professional artistic organization appointed to help in the development of the commissioned work.
The Greenfield Foundation appoints a fifth non-voting member of the committee.
The Hermitage Executive Director appoints a facilitator for the process, or self-appoints.
Making Commissions
Commissions are made by appointment, not by application. Through a series of meetings, the prize committee identifies not less than three and not more than five finalists. Finalists receive a letter inviting them to submit a proposal describing the work to be created if the commission were won. The prize committee selects the commission winner from the submitted proposals.
The Prize Committee
The Greenfield Prize process begins with the Hermitage National Artist Selection Committee - the advisory committee listed below which selects all artists for residencies at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Each committee member invites artists from his or her core discipline.
This artist selection committee chooses the artistic discipline to be commissioned in June of each year.
The discipline representative for the commissioned discipline becomes the voting chair of the prize committee, charged with recruiting two other voting members from the field.
The three-person voting committee is joined by the non-voting artistic leader of the Producing Partner, the professional artistic organization appointed to help in the development of the commissioned work.
The Greenfield Foundation appoints a fifth non-voting member of the committee.
The Hermitage Executive Director appoints a facilitator for the process, or self-appoints.
Making Commissions
Commissions are made by appointment, not by application. Through a series of meetings, the prize committee identifies not less than three and not more than five finalists. Finalists receive a letter inviting them to submit a proposal describing the work to be created if the commission were won. The prize committee selects the commission winner from the submitted proposals.
2010 Greenfield Prize Committees
Greenfield Prize Visual Arts Committee
- Dan Cameron, Chair. Founder and Curator, Prospect New Orleans
- Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater
- Jim Houghton, Artistic Director, The Signature Theater; Director, Julliard Drama School
- Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director, Asolo Repertory Theatre (non-voting)
- Joni Greenfield, The Greenfield Foundation (non-voting)