
The Vilcek Foundation
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The Vilcek Foundation raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation of the arts, sciences, and humanities.
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Opportunity alert for immigrant artists! The Vilcek Foundation has launched the 2026 cycle of its Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in "Fashion and Design" and "Fashion and Culture." More: bit.ly/VilcekPrizes



Check out this interview between the Guggenheim New York and Guadalupe Maravilla about the significance and healing power of art. Maravilla was awarded our 2025 Vilcek Prize for Visual Arts for his powerful artwork that addresses undocumented experiences, cancer survival, and trauma


Listen to this NPR interview! Sergiu P. Pasca, researcher of neurosceince at Stanford University, worked with a team to recreate a model of the human pain pathway. Winner of our Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science in 2018, Pasca and his team exposed the system to the



‘Left-Handed Girl’ written and directed by @shihchingtsou Shih-Ching Tsou is one of the seven feature films in the Competition category for Festival de Cannes! Tsou was an immigrant filmmaker represented at Hawaiʻi International Film Festival in 2021 as part of our grant. Congratulations!!


#CallForEntries | The Vilcek Foundation Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Fashion & Culture The award champions immigrant fashion professionals in the US – writers, researchers, curators, stylists, image makers. Three $50,000 prizes available. Deadline 9 June: tinyurl.com/29lulu4c

Tonight Pen + Brush is holding an opening reception for TWO exhibitions—"THE NOW: Materiality" and "In the House 4." Each of these are ongoing series that highlight upcoming artists and individuals who contribute significantly to the dialogue around gender equity in the arts.


@M_delCarpi has won a #GuggenheimFellowship! Winner of our 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, del Carpio Landry is an associate professor of neuroscience and chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UC Berkeley. She will use her fellowship to


👀 $50,000 prize open to US immigrants in Fashion Fields The Vilcek Foundation is now accepting applications from immigrants under the age of 38 working in fashion fields in the United States for a $50,000 prize. Open to designers, curators, writers, stylists, material innovators, and more.


Our 2013 winner of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, Hashim Al-Hashimi has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! A professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University, Al Hashimi has spent two decades developing




A study in Science Magazine conducted by Luciano Marraffini of the #MarraffiniLab at Rockefeller University shows that newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial

