This is the category for artists whose artwork is essentially obviously in 3 dimensional media. This group can include any medium freestanding, or hanging off a wall or other traditional ways sculpture is made As well if your sculpture is animated or mechanized.
If you are a Viewer and visitor, please take a look below at some of the art that has been created in the 9 counties of the Bay Area and Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties in this first ever regional series of art prizes. There are other categories you will find very interesting, please visit this one and all the others as well.
And if you are a viewer, please consider donating a tax-deductible donation or purchase a print from some other Bay Area artists who want to sell some of their work to help fund this first ever regional Prize for Art! And SIGN Up so that you can VOTE for your favorite art and help an artist win a prize after the contest is over, between Nov. 2-Nov.15!
If you are an artist and participate in the Prize, you may sign up and upload up to eight (8) of your works of art for $10 each. Your work will be reviewed and then placed immediately up on this website for everyone to see, in one of more of the juried categories. Your work will then be eligible for a Winning Prize or Honorable mention.
There will be a winner at $500 and an essay and 4 honorable mentions at $100 each, per category for a total of 73 prizes! The $100 awards will be cash awards or a gift certificate to a Bay Area store specializing in art-related services for the Sculpture group. As well there are 2 more voted awards which your work would also be eligible for, to be voted on after the Prize for Art closes on November 1!
Each category is awarded separately. Each artist is eligible for one award per category. Works that have won in the previous Prize for Art are not eligible for the 2023 Sheridan Prize for Art. The Winner and Honorable Mentions will be announced here as soon as possible after November 15! Please also come back after that date to see the results. Good luck everyone!
Kristin Lindseth – Juror