ALUM WINS 'GENIUS' FELLOWSHIP

UWM alumnus Sky Hopinka has been awarded a prestigious 2022 MacArthur Foundation fellowship, colloquially known as a “genius” grant. The unrestricted fellowship provides $800,000 over five years for winners to pursue whatever projects they desire.

Hopinka received a Master of Fine Arts from UWM in 2016. He’s a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation/ Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians who develops new forms of cinema centered on the perspectives of Indigenous peoples.

In accepting the award, Hopinka told the MacArthur Foundation, “The more that I can be seen as one small part of a larger constellation of works and voices that make up Indigenous peoples in this country, the better.” – Howie Magner