Judith Braun was one of the 25 ArtPrize artists to receive an Artist Seed Grant. Courtesy ArtPrize
A local foundation has funded $50,000 in seed grants for an international art competition.
The Frey Foundation in Grand Rapids presented 25, $2,000 Artist Seed Grants for the seventh installment of ArtPrize. It’s the second year the foundation has presented the grants.
A panel of nine art critics and experts sorted through 149 applications from registered ArtPrize artists to select the winners.
ArtPrize runs Sept. 23-Oct. 11, with $500,000 in prizes in juried and public vote competitions.
The Panel
Nicole Caruth – writer, curator and editor of Art21 Magazine
Lisa Freiman – director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
Reed Kroloff – architect and director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum
Scott Stulen – curator of audience experiences and performance at Indianapolis Museum of Art
Joe Becherer – chief curator and vice president for collections at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park and art history professor at Aquinas College
Paul Amenta – SiTE:LAB curator
Dana Friis-Hansen – director of Grand Rapids Art Museum
Miranda Lash – curator of contemporary art at The Speed Art Museum
Cezanne Charles – director of creative industries at Creative Many
Grant winners
The panel selected the 25 winning artists based on financial need and artistic merit.
Faig Ahmed – “Embroidery Space”
Jarrod Beck – “Uplift”
Jose Carlos Casado – “Sacrifice”
Daniel Rothbart – “Oculus”
Diana Shpungin – “Drawing of a House (Triptych)”
Tomas Rivas – “Geometric Flood”
Nick Kline – “Pilgrimage”
Jessica Bonenfant Coogan – “Disembodied Woman”
Mandy Cano Villalobos – “Undocumented Histories”
Megan Pitcher – “Breakwall”
Kora Radella – “For the Toward”
Filippo Tagliati – “Site #8”
Sara Dittrich – “Symphony of Gestures”
Mark Rumsey – “Rumsey Street Office of the Archivist”
Mark Dean Veca – TBD
Judith Braun – “As Above”
Jane Cassidy – “Brumaire is the Color”
Daniel Elkin – “Straw Sun Space”
Ritsu Katsumata – “In the Beginning”
Aramando Ramos – “Kind Regards”
Zach Mory – “Swell”
LaMarre And Dancers Featuring James Cornish – “They Were Displaced… And Again”
Ryan C. Doyle – “Activi-Tree”
Karen Lemmert – “345 RGB”
Michael Peoples – “The Great Race”
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