ArtPrize Announces $100,000 Juried Grand Prize
ArtPrize, the radically open international art competition and social experiment in Grand Rapids, Mich., is pleased to announce a new award: the ArtPrize Juried Grand Prize.
The $100,000 award will be added to a revised list of public and juried prizes that will be distributed at the end of the 19-day event.
ArtPrize 2012 will take place Sept. 19 – Oct. 7, 2012.
With its public vote and juried awards, ArtPrize explores the tension between professional and populist in an epic conversation. In 2011, nearly 400,000 people visited Grand Rapids to engage with the work and ideas of nearly 1,600 artists. The new award changes the dynamic of the competition, and increases the total awards the event distributes to $550,000, making it the largest total prize purse for art in the world.
In addition to the Juried Grand Prize, ArtPrize will also increase its other juried awards to $20,000 each. The organization selected five categories to recognize:
- Two-Dimensional
- Three-Dimensional
- Time and Performance
- Urban Space
- Venue
The increased commitment to juried awards will change the dynamic of the event and sets up a purposeful dialog between the opinions of arts professionals and the public, focusing on the artists’ work. Jurors for all of the professional awards will be announced in the spring, prior to artist registration.
“For the past three years, ArtPrize has set itself apart by empowering the public and giving them a critical voice, but the success of the event is based on the exchange of artists’ ideas,” said DeVos. “We want ArtPrize to be accessible for everyone, so we hope the new awards will help artists understand our goals and encourage them bring new ideas to the event.”
The changes in Juried Prizes will result in a revision of the ArtPrize Public Vote Awards:
Public Vote Award Revisions
- Top Prize 2011: $250,000 2012: $200,000
- 2nd 2011: $100,000 2012: $75,000
- 3rd 2011: $50,000 2012: $50,000
- 4th-10th 2011: $7,000 2012: $5,000
The prize total for the public awards in 2012 will be $350,000, vastly outweighing the juried awards at $200,000, and keeping the organization’s focus on the community.
“The engagement of the community continues to be at the forefront of ArtPrize’s success,” added Catherine Creamer, executive director of ArtPrize. “Nearly 400,000 people participated in ArtPrize in 2011, not because we told them art mattered, but because we create a system where THEY matter to art.”
ArtPrize 2011 had more than 38,000 registered voters who submitted 383,000 total votes. With the increase of smartphones, mobile voting via the ArtPrize iPhone and new Android apps increased 62 percent.
ArtPrize 2011 began Sept. 21 with 1,582 artists from 39 countries and 43 U.S. states installing their work at 164 venues in a three-square-mile district in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Artist and venue registration for ArtPrize 2012 will be announced after the beginning of the year. For more information, visit www.artprize.org.
Agreement with every change, except for places 4th-10th. I believe they still need to awarded $7,000. It takes more than that amount for some artists to complete and transport their works to be entered at Artprize. The first two years saw so many entries that had the potential for achieving placement. For me, not so much last year. Let’s not bring discouragement and abandonment to a potential winner. Barbara Stephenson
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I like this. The only other thing I would change is to remove the top 10 being chosen the first week, instead let the voting for all the pieces go the whole show
I agree that way too little time is given for choosing the top 10. It is totally unfair to those artists whose work is not in one of the dense central sites. Give us 3 weeks to vote on the top 10, and then 1 week to vote on first place.
Excellent decisions! I wonder what would happen with one round of voting with only one vote per person? If someone changes their mind, only their last vote counts. One 19 day voting round.
Definitely moving in the right direction with these changes, but… I also think that there should be only one round of voting, for the top 10 and within those 10, the top 3.
I found that many of the people who came through “my” venue had not activated their vote because it wasn’t convenient. It would help if every neighbourhood, if not every venue, had a registration/activation facility.
I would also like to see some way of ensuring that more traffic is generated to venues on the outer edges of the ArtPrize map. Having the ArtPrize bus cover those areas would be a good start!
Very good. It keeps improving.
[...] This year, the organizers are adding Juried Prizes in addition to the public vote. This means that more artists will be recognized for their unique talents. I’m very excited about ArtPrize this year. I love that this is more than a contest, it’s an entire event! An entire community gets involved to look at and talk about art. Since each person can vote, they are no longer simply passersby. Viewers are forced to think about the art that’s in front of them before they make their final choice. [...]
Keep improving. I don’t think it is there yet. The problem of the majority of the prizes going to artists who show in a concentrated area needs to be addressed. Maybe a longer voting period for the Top 10 so people have an opportunity to see more of the show. Also, as someone else stated, make registration easier. I couldn’t even vote for myself!
As international visitors from Europe in two previous years and hoping to return in 2012 we are helped by as much notice as possible of events so as to be able to plan and book our trip, timetable and maybe this time we will register to vote!
It would be good to see on the website advance notice / view of everything so we can have a quick look and plan our days in Grand Rapids. Previously we have just wandered the central area and missed seeing art works friends discovered later. Keep it up – marvellous and never experienced anything like it.