The call for entries for the Emerge 2012 exhibition opened on October 1, 2011. Entrants submitted work through an online application service until the deadline of December 7, 2011.
This year’s competition attracted over three hundred fifty entries from more than thirty countries. In early January, a panel of three jurors undertook the massive task of selecting a group of finalists by reviewing several thousand digital images of artwork. In addition to images, the jurors were able to view the entrants’ names, the titles and dimensions of their works, and the techniques used to create the works.
The three jurors for this year’s competition were Laura Addison, Silvia Levenson, and Klaus Moje. They performed their duties with great professionalism, collegiality and care, evaluating each artist for excellence of craftsmanship, design and creativity. After selecting the group of finalists, the jurors chose one piece of artwork by each finalist to be included in the exhibition. In late March, once the selected pieces had been installed, the jurors gathered to review the assembled work and to choose the category award winners.
We wish to thank the jurors for helping to make Emerge 2012 an inspiring collection that reflects the high standards of today’s artist working in kiln-glass. And we wish to encourage entrants who did not qualify as finalists this year to continue their efforts to make good work. We would also like to thank everyone who attended the Emerge 2012 opening reception at Bullseye Gallery.
This year, selected award-winning works have been scheduled to travel to the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe and to Bullseye Resource Center Bay Area in Emeryville, California, after the Portland show closes.
