We at The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research thank the following people for all their help in putting together the 2010 New England Art Awards:
Chris Braiotta, a gentleman who again so kindly programmed the robots that tally all the nominations and votes.
John Bisbee, who served as master of ceremonies for the Art Awards Ball. He’s an amazing sculptor and rock and roll star, and with Mark Wethli runs the outposts of Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick, Portland and New York. If you haven’t been to the giant Brunswick , Maine, location, be sure to check it out.
The other presenters at the Art Awards Ball: Katherine French, James Montford, Jessica Gath, the folks from Big Red & Shiny, and Kathleen Bitetti, a Boston artist, public policy expert, and an advocate for artists, who has recently signed on as chief curator at Medicine Wheel Productions in Boston.
Photographer Jane Cunningham from Gloucester. The staff at the Burren, who so kindly allow us to hold the Awards there. The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band.
The 125 people who made nominations for the awards. The team of people who helped boil down the nearly 900 nominees into the final voting ballot: Maggie Cavallo, outreach coordinator for the galleries at Montserrat College of Art; Franklin Einspruch of GoSeeArt.com and 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.
The 2,205 people and 10 art writers–Franklin Einspruch, Debbie Hagan, Annie Larmon of the Portland Phoenix, Christian Holland of Big Red & Shiny, Daniel Kany of The Portland Press Herald, Doug Norris of the South County Independent in Rhode Island, Edgar Allen Beem of DownEast and Yankee Magazine, John Pyper of dailyserving.com and printeresting.org, and Mark Favermann of Berkshire Fine Arts (also Greg Cook)–who voted.
And everyone who attended the Art Awards Ball.
The New England Art Awards are a giant, open-source community project and it couldn’t happen without you. Thanks.