GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- In addition to the $449,000 awarded to the top 10 artists based on a public vote, ArtPrize 2010 has additional juried awards. Two juried awards were introduced during the Awards Ceremony in 2009, but this year ArtPrize has intentionally pursued sponsorship and internationally recognized jurors to add to its program. More awards may be added closer to the event, based on sponsorship available.

2010 juried awards include:

• Best two-dimensional work (2D)
• Best three-dimensional work (3D)
• Best time-based work (Performance/Film/Video)
• An award for use of urban space

Beyond the categories listed above, specific criteria for juried awards will be determined by the jurors themselves. Sponsors for each award will be announced later. A minimum cash prize of $5,000 will go to the artist for each award. Sponsors may choose to increase the cash prize solely at their discretion.

JURORS

Patricia Phillips (2D Award)
A well-known arts writer, curator, educator and administrator, Phillips is Dean of Graduate Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She came to RISD from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, and for 16 years prior to that, she served as a professor, Art Department chair and dean of the School of Fine & Performing Arts at the State University of New York (SUNY), where she earned the SUNY Chancellor’s Recognition Award for Research in 2002. She is former editor-in-chief of Art Journal. Phillips' research and critical writing involve contemporary and public art, design, architecture, sculpture, landscape and the intersections of those areas.

Xenia Kalpaktsoglou (3D Award)
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou is a curator and co-director of the Athens Biennale. As one-third of XYZ--a collaboration with artist Poka-Yio and curator/art-critic Augustine Zenakos--she co-founded the Athens Biennale in 2005. She co-curated the Athens Biennale 2007, Destroy Athens, and acted as artistic director for the second, Heaven. Recent XYZ projects include: John Bock: A Lecture and a Film Retrospective (Athens, 2008), Goldfish Suddenly Dead (Extra City, Antwerp, 2009). Kalpaktsglou is also a regular contributor to artists’ catalogues and various project-based publications. From 2006 until 2008, she was the director of the DESTE Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art Athens.

Judith Barry (Time-Based Award)
Judith Barry is an artist, writer whose work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, sculpture, architecture, photography, and new media. She has exhibited internationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale of Art/Architecture, Sao Paolo Biennale, Nagoya Biennale, Carnegie International, Whitney Biennale, and the Sydney Biennale, among others. In 2000 she won the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, and in 2001 she was awarded "Best Pavilion" at the Cairo Biennale. She has taught and lectured extensively in the USA, Japan, and Europe. Her work is included in the collection of MoMA, NYC, Whitney Museum, NYC, Generali Foundation, Vienna, MCA, San Diego, Pompidou Center, Paris, Le Caixa, Barcelona, FNAC, Paris, Goetz collection, Munich, Frac Lorraine, Metz, CIFO, Miami˜among many others world-wide. A survey of her work originated at Domus Artrium 2002 in Salamanca Spain in April 2008 and is currently traveling to other venues in Europe.

Jeff Speck (Urban Space Award)
Jeff Speck is a city planner and architectural designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he oversaw the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Prior to joining the Endowment, Mr. Speck spent ten years at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., a leader in New Urbanism, where he led or managed more than forty of the firm's projects. He is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as the just-released Smart Growth Manual, and serves as a contributing editor to Metropolis magazine.