Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation

Please help us celebrate the eight writers who have just joined the community of Rabkin Prize winners and take a behind-the-scenes peek at artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki making portraits of this year’s cohort in the spaces where they write.

Next week, our interviews with this year’s winners begin publishing on Wednesdays. You can subscribe to the Rabkin Interviews on Substack and podcasting platforms.

The 2025 Rabkin Prize winners are Tempestt Hazel, a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center; Jessica Lynne, a writer, critic, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK; Nicole Martinez, a writer and deputy director of Fountainhead Arts; Brandy McDonnell, a features writer for The Oklahoman; America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), a writer, artist, curator, and publishing editor of First American Art Magazine; Eva Recinos, an arts and culture journalist and creative nonfiction writer; Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation), an author, essayist, and curator; and J Wortham, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and sound healer.

To read more about these writers, visit our website: https://www.rabkinfoundation.org/2025-rabkin-prize-winners
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At a time of precarity for the arts writing field, the Rabkin Prize celebrates the essential work of journalists who are at the heart of our most essential conversations, help us think together in public, create the original field research for art history, and bear witness to the essential work of artists.

The 2025 Rabkin Prize winners are Tempestt Hazel, a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center; Jessica Lynne, a writer, critic, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK; Nicole Martinez, a writer and deputy director of Fountainhead Arts; Brandy McDonnell, a features writer for The Oklahoman; America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), a writer, artist, curator, and publishing editor of First American Art Magazine; Eva Recinos, an arts and culture journalist and creative nonfiction writer; Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation), an author, essayist, and curator; and J Wortham, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and sound healer.

To all of this year’s winners, congratulations, and thank you for the work you do.

Portraits by Kevin J. Miyazaki.

Paul Chaat Smith
Tempestt Hazel
America Meredith Art
Eva Recinos
Jenna Wortham
Brandy Bam McDonnell
Kevin J. Miyazaki
Mary Louise Schumacher