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Call for Entries Opens: $50,000 Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Painters
Aspiring women painters are invited to apply.
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Announcing The Bennett Prize 4.0 Jurors
The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realists is pleased to announce the jurors for the 4th iteration of The Prize, the call for entries for which will open on April 15, 2024, and which will be awarded at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan on May 15, 2025. Learn more about the jurists.
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WATCH: New Initiative Aims to Launch Digitized Art Into Space
Humans have a history of launching art into space — now, a new initiative is looking to put digitized versions of work from 30k+ artists on the moon🚀
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A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky
The Lunar Codex, an archive of contemporary art, poetry and other cultural artifacts of life on Earth, is headed to the moon.
New York Times
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Bennett Prize goes to painter Shiqing Deng
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 18, 2023
CONTACT: Amanda Rogalski, aarogalski@rogomarketing.com, 616-540-9231
MUSKEGON, Michigan – Painter Shiqing Deng, of Brooklyn, New York, has won the prestigious 2023 Bennett Prize. Deng’s work is “quiet, contemplative, mysterious and humorous, her paintings hide as much as they reveal.”
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Bennett Prize 3.0
The 10 finalists selected for the third iteration of the $50,000 Bennett Prize represent the best women figurative realist painters working today.
American Art Collector
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10 finalists announced for $50,000 Bennett Prize for women figurative realist painters
Pittsburgh, PA - Nov. 29, 2022 - Today 10 women from across the country who paint in the figurative realist style were named finalists for the $50,000 Bennett Prize, the third iteration of the largest art award ever offered solely to women figurative realist painters. The winner and, for the first time, a $10,000 runner-up award, will be named in 2023.
News Release
Call for Entries Opens: Third Iteration of $50,000 Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Painters
Pittsburgh, PA, April 18, 2022 - Rising women painters are invited to apply for the third iteration of The Bennett Prize. Its $50,000 grand prize is the largest offered solely to women figurative realist painters.
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Meet Bennet Prize 2 finalists and Prize Founders
In this episode of Gently Does It, John Dalton speaks with the finalists of The Bennett Prize 2. He also chats with Dr Elaine Melotti Schmidt and Steven Bennett. The episode culminates in the announcement of the winner of the prize.
Gently Does It podcast with John Dalton