Just in: Chicago cellist wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
NewsThe jazz cellist and composer Tomeka Reid is this year’s musical winner of a MacArthur Fellowship.
It’s worth a life-changing $625,000.
Reid, 45, is Darius Milhaud Distinguished Visiting Professor at Mills College.
Full list here.
So lame. Totally pathetic. Sucks biiiiig time, both as a “cellist” and improviser. There are SO many talented artists out there – but somehow she got it. What’s the criteria? Actually, is there ANY…? 😉
Actually it’s $800,000 this year.
The only thing genius that I can see here is how she managed to convince them to think she’s a genius who deserves this cash.