| The Fund for Art and Dialogue has announced the Artadia Awards 2009 Boston. Three jurors—Peter Eleey (visual arts curator, Walker Art Center), Rita Gonzalez (assistant curator of contemporary art, LACMA), and Randi Hopkins (associate curator, ICA Boston)—conducted studio visits with fifteen short-listed artists drawn from nearly six hundred applicants in the metro Boston area. This is Artadia’s second cycle in Boston following the inaugural awards cycle in 2007. The two recipient at the $15,000 level are Amie Siegel and Joe Zane; the five recipients of the $3,000 awards are Claire Beckett, Ambreen Butt, Caleb Cole, Raul Gonzalez, and Eric Gottesman. Applications for the Artadia Awards were open to visual artists in all media and at any stage of their career working and living in metro Boston. The three first-round jurors—artist Sanford Biggers, curator Dan Cameron, and Hopkins—reviewed 577 applications and selected the fifteen finalists in New York in June.
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