The Paez Medal of Art 2022 to
Joshua Bell
VAEA 33rd anniversary announcement
Oct 25th, 2023
Immediate Release
A message from our:
Chairman, Ali Cordero Casal
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The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts
Board of Directors Advisors
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The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.
The Paez Medal of Art 2022
Joshua Bell
In recognition of his unwavering commitment to music education and his unparalleled contribution to his craft as one of the most celebrated artists of our era.
Joshua Bell photo by Shervin Lainez
About Joshua Bell
With a career spanning almost four decades, GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Bell has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, and continues to maintain engagements as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor and as the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Bell’s highlights in the 2023-24 season include an international tour of his newly-commissioned project, The Elements, featuring works by renowned living composers. The work will receive its premiere performances with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Bell will release his new album on Sony Classical, Butterfly Lovers, in summer 2023.Bell will also lead the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on tour in Australia and throughout the United States.He will appear as artist-in-residence this season with the NDR Elbphilharmonie, and as guest artist with the New Jersey Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philadelphia Orchestra, and more.
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Bell began playing the violin at age4, and at age12, began studies with his mentor, Josef Gingold. At age 14, Bell debuted with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, andmade his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17 with the St. Louis Symphony. At age 18, Bell signed with his firstlabel, London Decca, and received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the following decades,Bell has been nominated for six GRAMMY® awards, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, a “YoungGlobal Leader” by the World Economic Forum, and has received the Avery Fisher Prize.He also received the 2003 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award and in 2000was named an “Indiana Living Legend.”
Bell has performed for three American presidents and the justices of the Supreme Court. Bell also participated in President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ mission to Cuba, performing on an Emmy-nominated PBSLive from Lincoln Center special; Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, celebrating renewed diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.
Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.
The Páez Medal of Art
AWARD CEREMONY & VAEA GALA
SPRING 2024
About the Páez Medal of Art
The Páez Medal of Art is awarded to individuals or groups that have had an impact on, and contributed to the excellence, growth, support and dissemination of the arts in Venezuela and the United States.
Previous recipients have included:
• Fundación Empresa Polar, and its founder Leonor Gimenez de Mendoza in 2021
• Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and Venezuelan Architect Jimmy Alcock in 2020
• Filmmakers Julian Schnabel and Venezuelan Margot Benacerraf in 2019
• Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel in 2018
• American writer Bob Colacello in 2017
• Venezuelan sculptor Marisol Escobar in 2016
• American photographer Annie Leibovitz in 2015
• Venezuelan art advocate Sofia Imber in 2014
• American theater stage director and playwright and visual artist Robert Wilson in 2013
• Venezuelan visual artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
The Páez Medal of Art 2021 went to Fundación Empresas Polar and its founder president Leonor Giménez de Mendoza for extraordinary philanthropic work in science, art and education.
James Alcock was one of the two winners of the VAEA 2020 Páez Medal of Art. Architect Walter James Alcock Matos, also known as Jimmy Alcock, is one of the most prolific Venezuelan architects of the late 20th century.
Frank Gehry was one of the two recipient of VAEA’s Páez Medal of Art 2020. Mr. Gehry’s contribution to the field of architecture has earned him significant honors and honorary doctorates from his country and internationally.
Julian Schnabel was one of the two winners of the VAEA 2019 Páez Medal of Art. The VAEA was honored to award Julian Schnabel , whose contribution to the visual arts and film reflects the tremendous vitality and artistic passion of an exceptional contemporary American artist.
Margot Benacerraf was one of the two recipient of VAEA’s Paez Medal of Art 2019. Benacerrat is a distinguished Venezuelan filmmaker and film promoter, and a major figure in Latin American film history.
Gustavo Dudamel was the recipient of VAEA’s Paez Medal of Art 2018. For his significant contribution to the arts and his unwavering commitment in bringing classical music to all, building international bridges and making powerful social transformation through his craft.
Bob Colacello was the recipient of VAEA’s Páez Medal of Art 2017. Bob Colacello is one of America’s most prominent and prolific biographical writers. For his important contribution to the arts and his broad vision of the social and cultural landscape.
Marisol Escobar the Venezuelan American visual artist was the recipient of VAEA’s Paez Medal of Art 2016. Marisol became internationally known for her sculptures and pop art works.
Annie Leibovitz was the recipient of VAEA’s Páez Medal of Art 2015. The American photographer Annie Leibovitz’s outstanding contributions to the art of photography in her forty-year career are numerous and exceptional.
Sofia Imber was the recipient of VAEA’s Páez Medal of Art 2014. Imber is one of the most outstanding personalities in the history of Venezuelan art and journalism, being a notable advocator for the arts in Venezuela founded the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas with one of the greatest art collections of Latin America.
Robert Wilson was the recipient of VAEA’s Páez Medal of Art 2013. Wilson has left an indelible mark as a change agent in experimental theater; his work addresses the traditional paradigms and combines the roles of Director, writer, actor, painter, choreographer and designer.
Carlos Cruz Diez was the recipient of VAEA’s Páez Medal of Art 2012. Mr. Cruz Diez has excelled as an artist in his native Venezuela and abroad always showing a superb commitment to advancing the arts via public arts and educational programs. He is consider one of the founders of the kinetic art movement.
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Monumentos de Hermandad
VAEA with the Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, Fundacion Otero Pardo and private sector will restore Ala Solar by Alejandro Otero.
To support visit Monumentos de Hermandad website
About The VAEA
The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts is a New York based 501(c)3 public charity, founded on June 13, 1990 with the mission of promoting the best of Venezuelan and US cultures through bi-national cultural, educational and social programs.
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