A Choreographer, a Poet, and a Visual Artist Win $80,000

by Rich SmithFrom Donald Byrd's terrific A Rap on Race, a conversation between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead cut with spurts of drunk-jazz dance numbers. TINO TRAN
Winners of the James W. Ray Awards—the big $$$ awards given to Washington state artists—have been announced!
Choreographer Donald Byrd won the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award, which comes with a $50,000 purse and is given "to advance the creative work of an outstanding individual artist."Byrd is a Tony-award nomi