One of the nation’s main artist residency applications, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Yoko Ono. The groundbreaking artist, filmmaker and musician is that this 12 months’s recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal, an honor beforehand given to Stephen Sondheim and Toni Morrison amongst others.
“There has never been anyone like her; there has never been work like hers,” MacDowell board chair Nell Painter stated in an announcement. “Over some seven a long time, she has rewarded eyes, provoked thought, impressed feminists, and defended migrants by way of works of a wide-ranging creativeness. Enduringly contemporary and pertinent, her uniquely highly effective oeuvre speaks to our personal occasions, so sorely needful of her leitmotif: Peace.”
Ono’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, stated in an announcement that the medal was “an incredible honor.”
“The historical past and record of previous recipients is actually exceptional. It makes me very proud to see her artwork appreciated and celebrated on this means,” he stated.
Ono, 91, has made few public appearances lately and isn’t anticipated to attend the July awards ceremony, on the MacDowell campus in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Ono’s music supervisor, David Newgarden, will settle for the award on her behalf.
Ono first turned referred to as a part of the avant-garde Fluxus motion of the Nineteen Sixties, then reached worldwide fame after assembly John Lennon, to whom she was married from 1969 till his loss of life, in 1980. Their many collaborations included the songs “Give Peace a Chance,” “Imagine” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” the basis for “War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko,” this 12 months’s winner of the Oscar for finest animated brief movie.
Over the previous 40 years, Ono has had a busy profession as a visible and recording artist, her albums together with “Season of Glass,” “Starpeace” and “Take Me to the Land of Hell.” She was just lately the topic of a profession retrospective at London’s Tate Modern.
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