The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Announces Jurors -Application Deadline Approaching- December 12, 2008

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Announces Jurors

Application Deadline Approaching- December 12, 2008

 

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize announces the jurors
for 2009.  The panel consists of three accomplished jurors from the art
industry.  This year's jurors are Ellen Harvey, Valerie Cassel Oliver and
Elisabeth Sussman.  The fourth annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
is designed to assist area visual artists in furthering their careers by
awarding a $25,000 fellowship.  The deadline for applications remains open
until Friday, December 12, 2008.  The prize will be awarded to an artist or
artist collaborators working in the Baltimore region on July 11, 2009, 7pm
at the Baltimore Museum of Art.      

Ellen Harvey is a New York-based artist with an extensive exhibition history
that includes solo shows at the LUXE Gallery(2007); New York, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts (2005), Philadelphia; the Whitney Museum at Philip
Morris (2003), New York; and De Chiara Gallery (2000 & 2001), New York.  She
has been included in many significant group exhibitions including the
Whitney Biennial 2008; Generation 1.5 at the Queens Museum of Art (2007),
New York; Block Party at the Bellwether gallery (2002), New York; and
Superduper New York at Pierogi 2000 (2000).  In 1999, Ms. Harvey
participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study
program, after which she spent the following two years working on her now
famous New York Beautification Project, a brilliantly straight-forward
public art project where she "tagged" already graffiti covered spots with
small 5" x 7" intricately detailed oval landscapes.  She has other works in
the public art collections of both New York and Chicago.  She has also won
several awards and her artwork has been reviewed often in publications such
as The New York Times, Art in America and New York Magazine.  She is
currently represented by LUXE Gallery, New York; Magnus Müller, Berlin;
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany; and Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

Valerie Cassel Oliver is Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston (CAMH), where she has been assembling acclaimed exhibitions since
2001.  Included among them are Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in
Contemporary Art (2003), Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since
1970 (2005), Black Light White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art;
as well as Cinema Remixed and Reloaded. Black Women and the Moving Image
since 1970, which is currently on view at the museum in Houston.  She was
also a member of the curatorial team for the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the
Whitney Museum of American Art.  Prior to her tenure at CAMH, she was the
director of the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago and curated several lecture series and symposia including
Witness: Art/Activism (1998), Lesbian Identity and the Landscape of
Homophobia (1998), Jurassic Technology (1998), The Performative Object
(1998), Culture of Empire/Culture of Resistance (1998), Reality/Virtual
Reality (1997), and Sound Mining: Unearthing Extended Voice (1996).  She has
authored books that accompany a variety of her curatorial projects, and has
served as a program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1988
to 1995).

Elisabeth Sussman is Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; where her most recent curatorial
effort William Eggleston: Democratic Camera - Photographs and Video,
1961-2008 is currently on view.  Ms. Sussman's remarkable career spans more
than three decades and includes curating or co-curating such seminal
exhibitions as Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes (1993), the 1993 Biennial
Exhibition, Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror (1996), Keith Haring (1997) and
Gordon Matta-Clark (2007) all at the Whitney Museum of American art; as well
as the landmark retrospectives of the works of Eva Hess (2001), which won
the International Art Critics Association First Prize for the best
monographic exhibition retrospective outside of New York, and Diane Arbus
(2003) for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  In addition to authoring
several publications that accompany her curatorial projects, she has
contributed essays to countless other volumes.  In 1999 she was a Fellow of
the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, and a Scholar at the Getty
Research Institute in 2003.  She has taught at M.I.T., Tufts and Harvard
Universities.

 

Deadlines/Dates

Application deadline                       December 12, 2008

Announcement of semi-finalists        February 12, 2009

Announcement of finalists               April 14, 2009

Finalist interviews                          July 11, 2009

Award announcement                    July 11, 2009, 7pm

BMA exhibition duration                  June 20 - August 16, 2009

MICA exhibition duration                 July 17 - August 2, 2009

Artscape                                     July 17-19, 2009

 

The 2009 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is made possible through the
support of The Abell Foundation, Alex. Brown Charitable Foundation,
anonymous, The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation, the
Charlesmead Foundation, Ellen Dankert, the France-Merrick Foundation,
Willard Hackerman c/o Whiting-Turner Contracting, and Legg Mason.  

For the 2009 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize application, visit
www.artscape.org or call 410-752-8632.