The five winners of this year's Alpert Award in the Arts received $75,000 each. The award focuses on mid-career artists and is one of the more lucrative annual arts prizes in the United States.
The highest-profile winner is Eisa Davis, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her drama "Bulrusher", who also was part of the 2008 Obie Award-winning acting ensemble of the rock musical "Passing Strange" and a leading player last year in Melissa James Gibson's drama "This".
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Rivaayat is an initiative by Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi to revive various dying art form and solve innumerable problems faced by the artisans. Rivaayat began with reviving a 20,000-year-old art form of pottery that is a means of survival for 600 families residing in Uttam Nagar, Delhi.