People’s Choice Award

The People’s Choice for best artwork is “Shards” by George (Mesro) Coles-El

Honorable Mentions

“Indigo Shakti” by Pranava Kim – Taylor

“Sunset Hierophany” by Alphonso Howard

“Garbage” by Douglas Bloch

“Public Dock” by kenneth banks

The Peoples’ Choice are awards VOTED on by viewers like you who have SIGNED UP on this website. Voting will be open November 17 – November 26, 2025. If you are a viewer (not an artist) who has signed up during the 2025 Sheridan Prize for Art you can vote during this time. The website will be updated on November 17 and voting links will then appear under each artwork. You can then log in and easily follow the voting link only after Nov. 17 and through Nov. 26 and clicking on it will take you to your own voting page. Each artist can win one award per category.

RANK the works 1, or 2, or 3, or 4 etc. up to 8 choices. We are using Rank Choice Voting with each viewer having up to 8 choices of artwork they could choose among the submitted works, ranking them by numerical preference. The computer will then run a program to choose the top 6 works from among all those votes from all the viewers like you and the work with the most votes will receive the Winning award plus five more honorable mention awards.

Democracy in art can be a great thing. The People voting for art.

There will be 1 winning artwork and 4 honorable mentions listed here. The winning work of art and honorable mentions will be viewable on this page after the results are tabulated in November. Come back often and see these works that were voted for BY THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES!