NEW YORK, N.Y.- Creative Time announced that Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk is the winner of the 2011 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, which is generously supported by the Annenberg Foundation. The award will be presented at the third annual Creative Time Summit conference at NYU Skirball Center on September 23, 2011. Van Heeswijk, known for her intensive, long-term commitment to community organizing and social involvement as artistic practice, is the third artist to receive the Annenberg Prize, a $25,000 award given every year to an artist whose work has been devoted to instigating social awareness and harnessing the communicative power of art to engage communities around critical public issues. Jeanne van Heeswijk’s work is distinguished by her strong social engagement with citizens to enact social change in their own communities. Her practice integrates artists, designers, architects,