Jeanne van Heeswijk Receives $25K Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change

Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk is the recipient of the 2011 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change. The $25,000 award is presented annually by New York-based nonprofit arts organization Creative Time to an artist whose work has been devoted to “instigating social awareness and harnessing the communicative power of art to engage communities around important public issues.” Van Heeswijk received the prize on Friday at the Creative Time Summit in New York. She joins past winners the