ALPHA OMEGA ARTS: SUBSCRIBERS

By Ernest O. Disney-Britton

Join the AOA subscribers who annually vote for the Alpha Omega Prize, Artist of the Year (below). Subscribers receive the Alpha Omega Arts free weekly newsletter each Monday with a summary of the top art news of the week. The annual winner is announced on November 1st, and he/she will receive a crystal award and a purchase prize of up to $500 to acquire a work of their creation. Dating back to 2008, the Alpha & Omega Prize for Contemporary Religious Art celebrates contemporary art's impact on religious dialogue in America. Sound interesting? Sign up--it's free!

2016 Alpha Omega Prize presented by Rev. Joshua Burkholder to artist Philip Campbell in his Indianapolis Studio. The Artist of the Year has been selected by Alpha Omega Arts subscribers each year since 2008.

ARTIST OF YEAR:

2016 - *Philip Campbell (IN) for "Rising From the Fire"
2015 - Donald Jackson (UK) for "The Saint John's Bible"
2014 - Anila Quayyum Agha (IN) for "Intersections"
2013 - Makoto Fujimura (NJ) for "Golden Sea"
2012 - Siona Benjamin (NJ) for "Find Home"
2011 - Banksy (UK) for "Stained Window"
2010 - Thomas Blackshear (KS) for "Saint Teresa"
2009 - Helen Zughaib (DC) for "Midnight Prayers"
2008 - Kehinde Wiley (NY) for "The Dead Christ in a Tomb"

*2016 marked year when first artist recieved the purchase prize

CLERGY ADVOCATE OF YEAR:

2016 - Dr. Peter Manseau, Smithsonian, NMAH, Wash., DC
2015 - Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Church, Vatican City
2014 - Rev. Clarence G. Newsome, PhD, Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
2013 - Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, Youth Rabbi, Chabad Jewish Center, NJ
2012 - Chancellor Eisen, Jewish Theological Seminary, NYC
2011 - Pastor Jonathon Wiggins, Resurrection Fellowship, Loveland, CO
2010 - Father Terrence Dempsey, St. Louis University, Saint Louis, MO
2009 - Father Luke, Brotherhood of Friars, NYC

MUSEUM EXHIBITION OF YEAR:

2016 - Seattle Art Museum: ""Graphic Masters"
2015 - The Jewish Museum: "Masterpieces & Curiosities"
2014 - Museum of Biblical Art: "Back to Eden"
2013 - The Jewish Museum: “Chagall: Love, War and Exile”
2012 - Brigham Young Museum of Art: "Beauty & Belief"
2011 - Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Art of the Arab Lands"
2010 - Museum of Contemporary Religious Art: "Good Friday"
2009 - Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Sacred Spain"

OTHER A&O HONORS:

Indiana Student Prizes: 2014 - "Sticks & Stones" (Grade 9) by Binuri Lasanya Hapuarachchy; 2013 - Bailee Brantley (Grade 11), "Risk"; 2012 - Samreen Uzzaman (Grade 12), "Life of a Shoe"; and 2011 - Rachael Walker (Grade 12), "Freedom"