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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

You Be The Judge: ArtPrize 2014 voting structure

Highlights of ArtPrize 2013


The times are changing for the ways to vote in the biggest art event in West Michigan. If you haven’t yet taken the opportunity in previous years to vote for your favorite ArtPrize entries, 2014 marks the perfect time to learn about the fine intricacies of the new ArtPrize voting structure.
Prizes are determined by two sectors: half are decided by public vote and half by a jury of art experts. On a separate axis, prizes are awarded based on entry categories: 2-D, 3-D, time-based, and installation, making a public Top 4 and juried Top 4. Grand Prize winners are subsequently determined from the top candidates of the aforementioned categories (that is, from the Top 4, a Grand Prize winner is selected). The overview looks like this:

Public Vote Awards
Juried Awards
Grand Prize
$200,000
$200,000
Two-dimensional
$20,000
$20,000
Three-dimensional
$20,000
$20,000
Time-based
$20,000
$20,000
Installation
$20,000
$20,000
As of now the balance of public and juried influence has been made equal. Under both arrangements, the Top Five artists are selected for each category (so, Top 5 2-D, Top 5 Time-Based, etc.), narrowing the first round into a final total of 20. This creates a public Final 20 and a juried Final 20.


For the public vote, a second round lets voters pick the favorite candidate of each genre, filtering the Final 20 into a short list of the Top Four artists. The juried vote similarly conducts a second round, although in this case the Top candidate of each genre is contingent only on the preference of the respective juror (that is, the 2-D juror cannot pick the Top artist for Installation work).


When a Top 4 has been determined for the Public Vote, a winner is elected for the Grand Prize -- the kicker being that the Grand Prize artist does not win the earnings from his/her respective genre. So for instance, if the Top 2-D artist was elected as the Grand Prize winner, his/her earnings would only be $200,000 and would not include the $20,000 2-D prize. 

In the case of the Juried Vote, a new panel (separate from the original panel of category jurors) will be created to choose the juried Grand Prize Winner out of the pool of juried Final 20 artists.

What’s also new this year is the juried award presented for Outstanding Venue. This opportunity allows venues to creatively showcase revolutionary work that intertwines with spatial harmony and the social environment which connects artists, curators and visitors.

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