The Tanne Foundation
The Tanne Foundation

Tanne Foundation awards recognize outstanding achievement and are an expression of gratitude to artists for their passion and commitment to their work.

  • Thomas Westerfield

    Thomas Westerfield, San Francisco, California, is the author of the play Monasteries and the short story collection Goes On, Without the World’s Understanding published by Rattling Good Yarns Press. H… Read more >

  • John Shakespear

    John Miguel Shakespear is a writer and musician known for exploring the intersections between his disciplines. As a songwriter and bandleader, his two full-length records have received attention from… Read more >

  • Jonathan Pinson

    Jonathan Pinson, an innovative and versatile American drummer, is making a significant impact in the music world. Known for his bold and empathic musicality, Pinson has collaborated with renowned arti… Read more >

  • David Miller

    David P. Miller’s first commitments to the arts were in mainstream theater and classical music. In his early twenties his interest had expanded into experimental theater and performance. From 1980 to… Read more >

  • Bob Morgan

    Robert (Bob) Morgan’s roots reach back to the pioneers of central Kentucky and the mountains of Appalachia. His life was shaped by a Catholic upbringing, the countercultural energy of Haight-Ashbury i… Read more >

  • Amina S. McIntyre

    Amina S. McIntyre is a Black urban Southern playwright, producer, and practical theologian who centers on imagination and communal healing.  Her plays, produced at theatres such as Out of Hand, Vangua… Read more >

  • Lovar Davis Kidd

    Lovar Davis Kidd, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an interdisciplinary performer, choreographer, and abstract artist dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices through immersive artistic experiences and socia… Read more >

  • Kenturah Davis

    Kenturah Davis is a visual artist working between Los Angeles and Accra (Ghana). Her work oscillates between various facets of portraiture and design. Using text as a point of departure, she explores… Read more >

  • Charles Coe

    Charles Coe, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the author of five books of poetry and one novel. He views and writes about the world through the lens of his experience as an African-American artist and cit… Read more >

  • Juandalynn Abernathy

    Juandalynn Abernathy was born in Montgomery, Alabama. The daughter of Ralph Abernathy, a co-founder of the American Civil Rights Movement, as a child she experienced the bombing of her home. She found… Read more >

2025 Tanne Award Recipients:

Created in 1998 by an artist with a long-established interest in the arts, the Tanne Foundation has interests in filling cultural voids, enriching the artistic experience and broadening horizons for artists and their audiences.

2025 Tanne Award Recipients:

Created in 1998 by an artist with a long-established interest in the arts, the Tanne Foundation has interests in filling cultural voids, enriching the artistic experience and broadening horizons for artists and their audiences.