Byron Kim, Bruce McClure Win Alpert Awards

Visual artist Byron Kim and experimental filmmaker Bruce McClure (pictured at left) are among the “five engaged, wildly independent artists” receiving 2008 Alpert Awards in the Arts. Initiated and funded by The Herb Alpert Foundation and administered by California Institute of the Arts, the awards provide unrestricted prizes of $75,000 to artists in the fields of visual arts, film/video, dance, music, and theatre. Kim was selected from a slate of 20 nominated artists by a panel composed of curators Elizabeth Brown (of the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery) and Franklin Sirmans (of the Menil Collection) and art historian James