31st Annual Artscape
JULY 20 - 22, 2012
Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
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Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is made possible through the support of The Abell Foundation, Alex. Brown Charitable Foundation, The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation, Charlesmead Foundation, Ellen Dankert, France-Merrick Foundation, Willard Hackerman, Hecht-Levi Foundation, Legg Mason and an anonymous donor. 
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is proud to announce the seventh edition of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The prestigious competition awards a $25,000 fellowship to assist in furthering the career of a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region. The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is held in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried exhibition and is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. The finalists and semifinalists exhibitions are presented in partnership with The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). An award announcement and reception takes place Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 7pm at the BMA, located on 10 Art Museum Drive. APPLICATION DEADLINE – MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012 For assistance with formatting images, please use this document: Resizing Images In Adobe Photoshop To CaFÉ™ Specifications (PDF format) or call Kim at 443.236.4340. Approximately six finalists are selected for the final review for the prize. Their work is exhibited in the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer Galleries of the BMA from Saturday, June 16 through Sunday, July 29, 2012. Additionally, an exhibition of the remaining semifinalists’ work is shown in the Decker and Meyerhoff galleries of MICA, located at 1303 West Mount Royal Avenue, during the Artscape weekend on Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22, 2012. The fellowship winner is selected from the BMA exhibition after review of the installed art and an interview with each finalist by the jurors: Carlos Basualdo, Jane Hait and Shinique Smith. Each of the remaining finalists not chosen for the fellowship receives a $1,000 honorarium. Artist collaborators, if selected as the winner or finalist, receive a single $25,000 prize or $1,000 honorarium respectively that is equally divided among the members of the group. Click here for details on jurors for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize The Artscape prize is named in honor of Janet and Walter Sondheim who have been instrumental in creating the Baltimore City that exists today. Walter Sondheim, Jr. had been one of Baltimore’s most important civic leaders for over 50 years. His accomplishments included oversight of the desegregation of the Baltimore City Public Schools in 1954 when he was president of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City. Later, he was deeply involved in the development of Charles Center and the Inner Harbor. He continued to be active in civic and educational activities in the city and state and served as the senior advisor to the Greater Baltimore Committee until his death in February 2007. Janet Sondheim danced with the pioneering Denishawn Dancers, a legendary dance troupe founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Later, she turned to teaching where she spent 15 years at the Children’s Guild working with severely emotionally disturbed children. After retirement, she was a volunteer tutor at Highlandtown Elementary School. She married Walter in 1934, and they were together until her death in 1992. |
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