And if that attention garners a $50,000 prize, all the better.
Idris Goodwin, an award-winning playwright who took over as executive director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College last year, was announced Wednesday as one of United States Artists’ Class of Fellows for 2021. It came with a $50,000 cash prize.
“This is major to me. It feels really good. I’m really proud and so grateful,” says Goodwin, who’s also well-known as a break beat poet, theater director and arts educator. “It’s right on time in my career. I’ve taken the long way for sure. I’m entering a new chapter of being more multidisciplinary and moving more into a space of being an advocate for the arts and other artists.”