Featured Exhibition
Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2009 Finalists
June 20–August 16, 2009
Free exhibition
In conjunction with Artscape, Baltimore’s premier arts festival organized by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, the BMA presents a special exhibition of the six finalists for The Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize: Baltimore Development Cooperative, Leslie Furlong, Ryan Hackett, Jessie Lehson, Molly Springfield, and Karen Yasinsky.
Baltimore Development Cooperative was the winner chosen by an independent panel of jurors and announced by Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon at a special ceremony on Saturday, July 11. This year’s jurors are Ellen Harvey, a New York-based artist; Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. This prestigious award is named after the late Baltimore civic leader Walter Sondheim and his late wife, Janet.
For current, behind-the-scenes pictures of the installation, visit our Flickr stream.
Presented by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts in partnership with The Baltimore Museum of Art.
Generously supported by Amy and Chuck Newhall and an anonymous donor.
The 2009 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize is made possible in part by grants from The Abell Foundation, Alex. Brown Charitable Foundation, Charlesmead Foundation, Ellie Dankert, France-Merrick Foundation, Hecht-Levi Foundation, Legg Mason, The Henry & Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation, Under Armour Baltimore Marathon, and Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.
Special Events
Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2009 Semi-Finalists
July 17–August 2
Decker & Meyerhoff Galleries of the Maryland Institute College of Art
Past Sondheim Prize Winners
For interviews with the past winners and BMA Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs Jay Fisher, visit our YouTube site or download a podcast.
Geoff Grace—2008 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Winner
For the 2008 Sondheim Prize Finalists exhibition, Grace created an installation of photographs, drawings, and objects with clay wall drawings called It’s the linger, not the long.
Tony Shore—2007 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Winner
Shore installed seven scenes of friends and relatives in southwest Baltimore painted in acrylic on black velvet for the 2007 Sondheim Finalists exhibition.
Laure Drogoul—2006 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Winner
The inaugural prize winner, Drogoul, presented an eight-foot-tall Japanese netsuke with glowing blue eyes and papier-mâche skin called The Root.
Artscape
Artscape returns July 17 through 19 with more than 150 artists and craftspeople from across the country; visual art exhibitions, live concerts, children's entertainment, and more.
