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Lannan is dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity in support of exceptional contemporary artists, writers, and activists through our Art, Cultural Freedom, Indigenous Communities, and Literary Programs.

Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 2008 (diptych) by Guy Tillim

Featured awards and fellowships

Meet some of the recipients of Lannan's awards and fellowships.

Isabella Hammad

Literary Fellowship

Evie Shockley

Literary Award

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Literary Fellowship

Mariame Kaba

Cultural Freedom Fellowship

Layli Long Soldier

Literary Fellowship

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Cultural Freedom Prize

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From the media archive

40 years of Lannan live readings and events

Breyten Breytenbach at a podium, smiling

Breyten Breytenbach with Lawrence Weschler

11/18/2009

The Fire This Time: A Tribute to James Baldwin with Nikky Finney, Randall Kenan, Kevin Young, et al.

02/11/2015

Angela Y. Davis with Barbara Ransby

11/02/2016

From the art collection

Works from the Lannan Collection in contemporary visual art

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Along the Bund, by the Huangpu River. Shanghai, China, 1998

Sebastiao Salgado

Untitled, (Cargo ship, Seaboard Ranger, Liberia) Houston Ship Channel, Texas, 2015

Victoria Sambunaris

Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 2008

Guy Tillim

drowned trees along the Mississippi - “Last Good byes” - The start point of the Trail of Tears drowning weeping willows On the Mississippi River (East Bank) Trail of Tears State Park Near Jackson Cape Girardeau County Mississippi U.S.A. 2010/2017 A start

Thomas Joshua Cooper

untitled, from nowhere near (nw 12), 1999

Uta Barth

Reshaped Crater in White, 1992

James Turrell

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