The 2010 New England Art Awards is a contest to honor the best art made here, local writing about local art, and exhibits organized here in 2010. And we want you to help us pick the winners via the online ballot here. You must follow that link to vote. Votes submitted as comments will be ignored.
Everyone is welcome to vote here. Winners will be chosen by (1) local active art journalists and (2) anyone else who wants to vote – and will be announced in terms of these two categories of voters.
Winners will be announced at the 2010 New England Art Awards Ball at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, at the Burren, 247 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. The event is free and open to all. Creative attire is encouraged.
How to vote:
Voting is automated – and our robots are standing by to receive your picks. You are welcome to vote in as many categories as you like or to leave lots of blanks. Please invite your friends to vote too. Votes must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25, to be counted. The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research will tally the votes. Nominees with the most votes in each category will win.
Voting will only be accepted via the robot voting form. We ask each voter to submit a name and e-mail address to prevent fraud. Cheaters will be banished. If you spot factual errors in the ballot, please send corrections here.
The aim of the awards, which are organized by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, is to promote a more exciting local art scene by encouraging and celebrating the work of artists, curators and art writers active in New England (except Yalies).
What’s happened so far:
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research invited everyone to make nominations in late December and 123 people made about 900 submissions. (Thank you.) We asked readers to volunteer to help us cull the nominations and recruited some more folks to pitch in. This team – Maggie Cavallo, outreach coordinator for the galleries at Montserrat College of Art; Franklin Einspruch of Franklin Einspruch’s Journal; Katherine French, director of the Danforth Museum; Liz Geller of FiveSevenDelle Project Space; Debbie Hagan, editor-in-chief of Art New England; and James Montford, director of Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery (thank you) – helped us narrow down the nominations to the final voting ballot that we present here. (Note: These kind folks were asked not to address categories in which they or their institutions were nominated.)
To those of you who received nominations but did not make the final ballot, please keep at it. We want you to kick ass in 2011 and be on next year’s ballot.