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News
Wendy Red Star Wins the 2016
Betty Bowen Award
U.S. Postal Service Releases
African American History Stamp
T
he Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
and the Betty Bowen Committee,
chaired by Gary Glant, announced
today that Wendy Red Star is the
winner of the 2016 Betty Bowen Award.
The award comes with an unrestricted
cash award of $15,000. Founded in 1977
to continue the legacy of local arts ad-
vocate and
support-
er
Betty
Bowen,
the annu-
al award
honors a
Northwest
artist for
their origi-
nal, excep-
Wendy Red Star
tional, and
compel-
ling work. Red Star’s work operates at
the intersections of traditional Native
American culture and colonialist histo-
ries and modes of representation; her
work will be featured in an installation
at the Seattle Art Museum beginning
November 10.
In addition, Dawn Cerny was select-
ed to receive the Special Recognition
Award in the amount of $2,500, and
Mark Mitchell was awarded the Kayla
Skinner Special Recognition Award
in the amount of $2,500. Five inal-
ists, including Evan Baden and Sadie
Wechsler, were chosen from a pool
of 446 applicants from Washington,
Oregon, and Idaho to compete for the
$20,000 in awards.
The award ceremony honoring Red
Star, Cerny, and Mitchell will take place
at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Seattle Art
Museum. The ceremony and reception
following the artists’ remarks are free
and open to the public.
The winner was selected in a two-part
jury process. In the irst round, the ap-
plicants are reviewed anonymously.
Over the course of two days, ive or six
inalists are selected from the pool of
applicants. The inalists are then invit-
ed to present their work to the commit-
tee in person during the second round.
2016 winner Wendy Red Star of
Portland was raised on the Apsáa-
looke (Crow) reservation in Montana.
Red Star works cross-generationally,
looking in particular at matrilineal
relationships within Crow culture and
ceremony. She has critically examined
historical portraits of Crow leaders by
white photographers and taken apart
stereotypical representations of Na-
tive American women in a variety of
popular culture contexts. Her work
centers on photography but sculpture,
video, iber arts, and performance are
also important to her practice.
Working in a wide array of mediums
including printmaking, collage, and
sculpture, special recognition award
winner Dawn Cerny of Seattle is in-
terested in the placement of objects
as visual evidence of cultural and be-
havioral value systems, especially in
the context of the home. In her recent
work, Cerny is increasingly exploring
strategies to present objects informal-
ly, relating an understanding of art as
T
he U.S. Postal Service has an-
nounced that in 2017 it will in-
troduce a stamp celebrating the
National Museum of African
American History and Culture. Oc-
cupying a 5-acre site on the National
Mall in Washington, DC. The muse-
um is the 19th Smithsonian museum
and the only national museum de-
voted exclusively to African Amer-
something lived within daily life.
Mark Mitchell of Seattle, winner of
the Kayla Skinner special recognition
award, works in hand-sewn textiles to
examine issues of ceremony, tribute,
and mourning, oten using the tropes
of funeral traditions. In his recent body
of work, Burial, Mitchell explored
these ideas through a series of intricate
burial garments. His current project,
Burial 2, tackles issues of mass incar-
ceration, prison reform, and the racial
disparity of the prison system — imbu-
ing mourning with an activist inten-
tion.
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ican life, art, history and culture.
The stamp is based on a photograph
of the museum by Alan Karchmer
showing a view of the northwest cor-
ner of the building. Text in the up-
per let corner reads “National Mu-
seum of African American History
and Culture.” Art director Antonio
Alcalá designed the stamp.
Betty Bowen (1918–1977) was a Wash-
ington native and enthusiastic support-
er of Northwest artists. Her friends
established the annual Betty Bowen
Award as a celebration of her life and to
honor and continue her eforts to pro-
vide inancial support to the artists of
the region. Since 1977, SAM has hosted
the yearly grant application process by
which the selection committee chooses
one artist from the Northwest to re-
ceive an unrestricted cash award, eligi-
ble to visual artists living and working
in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Beyonce, Alicia Keys,
Nicki Minaj to perform
at Tidal show
NEW YORK (AP) — Be-
yonce, Alicia Keys and
Nicki Minaj, artist-own-
ers of Tidal, will perform
at a concert in New York
for the streaming ser-
vice.
Tidal
announced
Wednesday that Lauryn
Hill, Common and Rob-
in Thicke will also per-
form at the Oct. 15 event
dubbed “TIDAL X: 1015”
at the Barclays Center in In this June 26, 2016, ile photo,
Beyonce performs “Freedom” at
Brooklyn.
Pre-sale tickets for Tid- the BET Awards in Los Angeles.
al subscribers go on sale Nicki Minaj, Beyonce and Alicia
Thursday; tickets for the Keys, artist-owners of Tidal, will
general public will be perform at a concert in New York
available Monday. The for the streaming service. The
event, in its second year, Oct. 15 event, dubbed “TIDAL X:
will beneit Tidal-sup- 1015” will be held at the Barclays
ported nonproits as well Center in Brooklyn.
as the Robin Hood Foun-
dation, which ights poverty in New York.
Others performers include T.I., DNCE, Emeli Sande,
Prince Royce, Blood Orange, Bebe Rexha and more.
The concert will be livestreamed on Tidal, which is
also owned by Jay Z, Usher, Madonna, Kanye West,
Jason Aldean and others.
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Two Special Recognition winners also selected
