The Juror’s Choice for best image was “Not in Our Name • No en nuestro nombre” by Juana Alicia Araiza
Read An Original Essay On The Winning Artwork For This Category.
Honorable Mentions
“The Peace Negotiations” by Hadi Aghaee
“Our Time is Now” by Durba Sen
“Quilt-Melt” by Lorraine Woodruff-Long
If there are any radically political artists in the Bay Area this category is especially made for you and your art! Show your most radical work here. This category and prizes are designed for your most dynamic, passionate, even angry or extreme political art! The only restrictions are no hate speech and nothing patently illegal.
This category will bend over backwards to allow for the free expression of your artistic, aesthetic perception of how the political world, power, justice, injustice, inequality, destruction, oppression and war affect art. Your art. You are invited to develop your radical thought as you define it and exhibit it here and perhaps ironically win a prize for your philosophical, religious, ideological, personal political beliefs.
Few if any exhibits in the Bay Area actually encourage political art of any kind, much less radical political art.
If you are a Viewer and visitor, please take a look below at some of the art that has been created in the 9 counties of the Bay Area and Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties 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 donate 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 you may upload up to eight (8) of your works of art for $10 each. Your work will be reviewed and then placed immediately up on this website for everyone to see, in one of more of the juried categories, as you choose. All work will then be eligible for a Winning Prize or Honorable mention.
There is one winner at $500 and an essay and 3 honorable mentions at $100 each! The awards are cash awards or a gift certificate to a Bay Area store specializing in art-related services. As well all the art submitted here will be eligible for 2 more voted awards, to be voted on after the Prize for Art closed November 14 and voting ended on November 25!
Artists may enter more than one category. Each category is awarded separately. Each artist is eligible for one award per category. Works that have won in the previous Prizes for Art are not eligible for the 2024 Sheridan Prize for Art. The Winner and Honorable Mentions are now shown! Please also come back often to see the results. Good luck everyone!
Jeff Blankfort – Juror