The Present Prize is funded by web hosting fees and awarded by the community of hostees. Each grant targets an underfunded area of the creative landscape.
ABOUT THE PRESENT PRIZE
THE PROCESS
- The theme is announced and hostees are invited to nominate 2 artists apiece
- Artists are asked to provide a short statement and an image
- We welcome the public to help narrow down the field of nominees
- Hostees vote on the final three candidates
- We shower the artist with dolla bill$
PRIZE 2: DIGITAL ARTIST
Our second prize will be awarded to a digital artist.
90%
FUNDED
PRIZE 1: $1K BAY AREA TRAVEL GRANT - Winner: Alison Pebworth
"Unlike most first-world countries we don't have a cultural agency at the state or federal level that funds artists' travel. I have an untested theory that if Bay Area artists had support for mobility that they would be more likely to stay...." This conversation on the SFMOMA blog served as the inspiration for our first prize: A $1000 travel grant for a Bay Area artist. Our hostees and partner The Collective Foundation nominated nine artists and the public narrowed the field down to three.
Alison Pebworth was the winner using the Present Prize to visit the Sabbath Day Lake Shaker Community in Gloucester, Maine to develop a residency with the last four living Shakers and to research Radical Sects and Utopian Societies of America for an upcoming tour with the Beautiful Possibility Project. read more here and here.