Incarcerated Artists

This is for people who create art and who are serving or have served time in the incarcerative system in the 9 Bay Area counties and Sacramento or Santa Cruz counties, and it is open to different media. Artwork can be entered in more than one category. Please SIGN UP to participate.

If you are a Viewer and visitor, please take a look below at some of the art that has been created in the Bay Area in this first ever regional series of art prizes. There are other categories you will find very interesting, please visit this one and all the others as well.

And if you are a viewer, please consider donating a tax-deductible donation or purchase a print from some other Bay Area artists who want to sell some of their work to help fund this first ever regional Prize for Art!

If you are an artist and want to participate in the Prize, you can sign up and then upload up to eight (8) of your works of art for free. Your work will be reviewed and then placed immediately and permanently up on this website for everyone to see. All work will be eligible for a Winning Prize or Honorable mention. As well all the works seen here will be eligible for 2 more voted awards which your work, to be voted on after the Prize for Art closes November 14 and voting ends on November 25!

Each category is awarded separately so artists are not competing against the entire pool for participating artists. There will be a winner at $500 and an essay and 4 honorable mentions at $100 each, per category for a total of 77 prizes! Each artist is eligible for one award per category. Works of art that have won in the previous Prize for Art are not eligible for the 2024 Sheridan Prize for Art. The Winner and Honorable Mentions will be shown after the results are in as soon after Nov. 25 as possible! Please visit many times and come back to see the results. Good luck everyone!

Nicola White – Juror