Artist Anila Quayyum Agha named one of nine judges for Michigan's ArtPrize
THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS
By Jim Harger
GRAND RAPIDS---ArtPrize announced a panel of judges who will choose the finalists for the $200,000 juried grand prize and the five $12,500 category awards. The Grand Prize will be chosen by a three-judge panel that includes Gaetane Verna, Director of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto; Christopher Scoates, Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Detroit; and Gia Hamilton, Director at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. The $12,500 Category Awards for entries in two-dimensional, three-dimensional, time-based, installation and outstanding curatorial presentation will be selected by (Anila Quayyum Aga, and) the following artists: [More]
By Jim Harger
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| 2014 ArtPrize Finalist Anila Quayyum Agha is one of eight judges who will award the $200,000 juried grand prize and the five $12,500 category awards. |
- Miranda Lash, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville (2-D);
- Rachel Adams, Senior Curator of Exhibitions for the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, (3-D);
- Scott Stulen, Director and President of Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa (Time-Based);
- Anila Quayyum Agha, Artist, Associate Professor of Drawing at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. Agha won the $300,000 Public Vote and Juried Award at ArtPrize 2014 for her work, "Intersections."
- Larry Ossei-Mensah, New York-based independent curator and cultural critic, Co-Founder of Artnoir. (Curatorial)