The Baker Artist Awards

1) The Baker Artist Awards

The Baker Artist Awards is offering Baltimore artists two large cash prizes this year. Up to 3 individual artists could be awarded the $20,000 dollar Mary Sawyers Baker prize (which will be decided by jury) and the Baltimore’s Choice prize will award $5,000 dollars to the artists who receive the most online votes.

A few of my favorites so far (in no particular order):

1) Alex Roulette

This is a large (36″-38″) oil painting. I thought it was a photograph at first glance. The detail on the water is amazing. This guy is still enrolled at MICA.

2) Tony Shore

Another painter, who is a teacher at MICA, and recently won the Sondheim prize for painting in Baltimore. All of his work is painted on large panels of black velvet. Pretty cool.

3) Danielle Yurchinkonis:

This photo was actually taken in my backyard when I still lived in Trash House. After hours and hours of lining up these pennies (somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000) we snapped this picture from the roof of my house. The pennies then sat in my backyard for about a month until we finally swept them up and took them to a Coinstar where we ruined the machine by dumping in a mixture of pennies, leaves, and twigs.

I think half of what makes me admire her photography so much is the meticulous work she puts in to setting up the scenes.

Voting began on November 1st and will continue until February 1st. Go sign up and check out all the amazing artists that live in Baltimore.

http://www.bakerartistawards.org/