Tyler Mitchell Wins $250,000 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum

Photographer Tyler Mitchell is the sixth winner of the Don Tyson Prize and will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds.The award was launched in 2016 as part of the Tyson Scholars of America program, a fellowshipendowed by the Arkansas-based food processing giant Tyson Foods and housed at Crystal Bridges in nearby Bentonville. For the first decade, the Don Tyson Prize, named for the company’s former chairman and chief executive who died in 2011, came with a $200,000 award given biannually;