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2021 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalist /  by Aisha White

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2021 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalist

Congratulations to the five finalists of this year’s competition: Hoesy Corona, Tsedaye Makonnen, Jonathan Monaghan, Lavar Munroe, and Hae Won Sohn.

The prestigious competition awards a $25,000 fellowship to assist in furthering the career of a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region. This year, the finalists’ work will be exhibited in person at the Walters Art Museum, on view Thursday, May 27, through Sunday, July 18, 2021. The winner of the 2021 Sondheim Artscape Prize will be announced during a special award ceremony on Saturday, July 10, 2021.

Additionally, works by semifinalists not moving to the finals will be selected by BOPA curator Lou Joseph for a separate exhibition during the summer of 2021. The 2021 jurors are Naz Cuguoğlu, Michelle Grabner, and Meleko Mokgosi.

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Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists
Hoesy Corona (Baltimore, MD)
Tsedaye Makonnen (Washington, DC)
Jonathan Monaghan (Washington, DC)
Lavar Munroe (Baltimore, MD)
Hae Won Sohn (Baltimore, MD)

Announcing Clark Art Futures Fellowship /  by Aisha White

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This Fall I am excited to announce that I will join the Clark Art Institute as their inaugural Futures Fellow.

About the Futures Fellowship
This fellowship supports artists, educators, scholars, writers, and art critics who are reimagining the possibilities of museums, scholarship, and public engagement. The program focuses on projects that examine social justice and the arts, reimagine the canon of art history, or consider the role of performance art in exposing erased histories.

Fellowships are awarded every year to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. As part of our commitment to fostering diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP particularly seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically been underrepresented in the discipline. These fellowships are intended to nurture a variety of disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history.