Travels with Vanny: October 2013

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The jury is in! Round 8 is now complete and we will be beginning deliberations to chose the ArtSlant Prize winners who will be brought to Aqua Art Miami, December 4-8th. Check out what the prior ArtSlant Prize winners are up to here and check out who is in the running for the ArtSlant Prize 2013 here!
And the Juried Winners for Round 8 are:

	ABSTRACT Artist: April Dawn Parker Title: Loc. 8 (Culvert) Medium: Gouache on paper

	DRAWING Artist: Bernadette Schweihoff Title: faceless Medium: ink on newspaper and canvas

	PHOTOGRAPHY Artist: Anna Rose Title: The Dunes Medium: Photography

	PAINTING Artist: Jessica Martin Title: Everything possible, everything yours Medium: acrylic, collage on canvas

	PAINTING - II Artist: Gaia Nardie-Warner Title: First Kiss Medium: acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas

	INSTALLATION Artist: Kimberly Hahn Title: Reversal Medium: Seamless backdrop, curtain rod & holders, hinges, screws, serigraphic photo emulsion, silkscreen, wood

	SCULPTURE Artist: Max Garett Title: Big Pony Medium: Cement, Plastic, Foam, Paint, Carpet

	MIXED-MEDIA Artist: Robin Kang Title: Random Access Memory Medium: hand jacquard woven cotton

	NEW MEDIA Artist: James Vogel Title: Back Yard Solar System Medium: video installation

Round 8 Jurors

	Veronica Bruce, artist and educator, makes use of everyday materials, the circumstance of place and generates work based upon the cycle of building. Bruce’s work explores the architecture of gesture across multiple disciplines of painting, sculpture, installation and video. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois in Urbana – Champaign in 2004 and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2011. Bruce became an Instructor in the Contemporary Practices Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the South Shore Art Festival, Robert Bills Contemporary, The Nevica Project, Park Schreck Gallery, with curators Casa Duno, and Aqua Art Miami. Awards include the Artslant Prize 2012 and artist residencies at threewalls Chicago, Bundanon Trust in New South Wales, Australia, and Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania.

	Wendi Norris is a San Francisco gallerist who, for the past ten years, has worked with nearly one hundred of the top museums and art centers around the world, placing art in their collections and collaborating on solo and group exhibitions. Wendi curates a pioneering program that includes both modern and contemporary artists who have a multi-cultural foundation that translates across both real and imagined borders/boundaries. She has produced critically-acclaimed exhibitions for artists like Dorothea Tanning, Chitra Ganesh, Remedios Varo, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy, Sherin Guirguis, Wolfgang Paalen, and Leonora Carrington, publishing seminal catalogues and fostering much needed scholarship, significantly contributing to surges in their respective markets. Wendi has an MBA from Georgetown University and BA in International Economics and Spanish from The Ohio State University. Her prior work experience included living and working overseas, primarily leading marketing teams as an executive for technology-based companies.

	Charlie Hood co-runs Beach London, a gallery and creative agency in Shoreditch. We've worked with some of the world's most exciting illustrators and designers over the past two years. We opened in July 2011, after working on a number of curatorial projects, including Baz and Chaz, and practicing as an artist for a few years. I graduated in 2008 with a degree in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University. We are currently working on a number of projects for 2014, including some events with Pick Me Up, Somerset House, a skateboarding exhibtion called Scattered Pieces, along with a number of design jobs.
We're gearing up for Miami and we know you are just as excited as we are for the art world's Grande Fête. This year, we are bringing three-four artists' work with us to exhibit in our booth at Aqua Art Miami, recently acquired by the great people at Art Miami / Context. Expect Aqua to be even better this year while keeping its stellar reputation as the best fair for emerging artists in Miami. Check out all the amazing work submitted so far! ArtSlant Prize - 2013 Showcase Series Over $20,000 in cash and exhibition prizes Winners of the first 7 Rounds exhibited in Downtown Chicago Top 3 winners exhibited at Aqua Art Miami 1st Prize: $3000 cash award 2nd Prize: $1000 cash award 3rd Prize: $1000 cash award PLUS $15,000 in Exhibition Fees & Stipends Featured Coverage in the ArtSlant Prize Catalogue $5000 in Purchase Awards (announced during exhibition)