American Artists (Aspen 2012)
Damian Woetzel 达米恩·沃策尔
Damian Woetzel is the director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program. A former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Woetzel is also the artistic director of the Vail International Dance Festival, the founding director of the Jerome Robbins Foundation’s New Essential Works Program, and he works with Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Connect Program in the New York City public schools. He is active as a director and producer, and among his recent projects, Woetzel was the director of the first performance of the White House Dance Series hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, and of an arts salute to Stephen Hawking at Lincoln Center for the World Science Festival. Woetzel has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School. In 2009, President Obama appointed Woetzel to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
David Breashears 大卫·布雷西尔斯
David Breashears is executive director and founder of GlacierWorks. Since 1979, Breashears has combined his skills in mountaineering and photography to become an acclaimed adventure filmmaker, leading over 40 expeditions to the Himalayan region and working on dozens of documentary film projects. Breashears has produced and photographed films for the PBS series “NOVA” and “FRONTLINE” and for National Geographic Television, the BBC, ABC, NBC, and Universal Pictures. He was producer, director, and expedition leader of the IMAX film Everest, the most successful large-format film of all time. He is the recipient of numerous awards for achievement in filmmaking, including four Emmy awards. Breashears has reached the summit of Mount Everest five times.
Elizabeth Diller 伊丽莎白·迪勒
Elizabeth Diller is a founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and a professor of architectural design at Princeton University. DS+R is an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. Its projects include the Lincoln Center expansion and renovation, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the High Line in New York, the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, the Blur Building in Switzerland, and the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. DS+R is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius award, the National Design Award, and the Brunner Prize, among others. Diller is a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of the studio’s work, recognizing DS+R’s unorthodox practices. Diller is also a Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence at the Aspen Institute.
Elliot Goldenthal 艾略特·高登索
Elliot Goldenthal is a composer who creates works for orchestra, theater, opera, ballet, and film. Most recently, he scored Julie Taymor’s 2010 film version of The Tempest. In 2006, Goldenthal’s original two-act opera Grendel, directed by Taymor, premiered at the Los Angeles Opera, and he was subsequently named one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his work on Grendel. In 2003, Goldenthal was honored with the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the score to Taymor’s film Frida. He was commissioned by the American Ballet Theatre to compose a three-act ballet of Othello, which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1997. Additionally, Goldenthal has been nominated for three Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, and two Tony Awards.
James Fallows 詹姆斯·法洛斯
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has worked for the magazine for more than 30 years. In that time he has been based in various sites within the United States and in Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Beijing. He has written ten books, of which the latest, China Airborne, was published in May. He won the American Book Award for his book National Defense, the National Magazine Award for his writings about the Iraq war, and a New York Emmy for his role as host of a documentary series on China. During the Carter administration, he worked in the White House as the president’s chief speechwriter.
Melissa Chiu 招颖思
Melissa Chiu is director of the Asia Society Museum in New York and senior vice president for the Asia Society’s global arts programming. As the museum’s first curator of contemporary Asian and Asian American art, she has initiated a number of initiatives, including the launch of a contemporary art collection in 2007. Prior to this position, Chiu was founding director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney. She is a visiting professor at the CUNY graduate school and has edited and authored several books on Asian art. She was a Getty research fellow and has served on grant and policy advisory committees for a number of organizations, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a member of many boards in the United States and abroad.
Orville Schell 夏伟
Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of 14 books, nine of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are Virtual Tibet, The China Reader, and Mandate of Heaven. He is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and many others. He is a fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a senior fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize for Asian Reporting.
Philip Kennicott 菲利普·肯尼科特
Philip Kennicott is the art and architecture critic of The Washington Post, which he joined in 1999. He has served as chief classical music critic for the Detroit News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he also worked for two years as an editorial writer. In 2006, he was an Emmy Award nominee for a video journal, “Fueling Azerbaijan’s Future,” about democracy and oil money in Azerbaijan. He won a Cine Golden Eagle for the video. In 2000, he was a Pulitzer-Prize finalist for editorials opposing a conceal-carry gun referendum in Missouri, which failed despite heavy support from gun-rights organizations.
Vishakha Desai 丁文嘉
Vishakha Desai was former president and CEO of Asia Society, a leading global organization committed to strengthening partnerships among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the US. Desai sets the direction for the society’s diverse sets of programs, ranging from major US–Asia policy initiatives and national educational partnerships for global learning to groundbreaking art exhibitions and innovative Asian American performances. She has an international reputation for introducing contemporary Asian art in the US through critically acclaimed exhibitions and scholarly catalogues. Under her leadership, Asia Society has expanded the scope and scale of its activities, including opening new offices in India and Korea, the inauguration of a new center on US-China relations, and the development of new initiatives focusing on the environment, on Asian women leaders, and on partnerships among the next generation of exceptional leaders in Asia and the US.
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