Wow Phoenix.
1Spot Gallery is very honored to be a finalist for the 2013 Big Brain Awards by Phoenix New Times.
Each year, New Times honors the community’s art-felt achievements with the Big Brain Awards, giving cash prizes to emerging creatives.
— Being nominated is a beautiful catalyst to continue creating, expanding, showcasing and building up our local Native art world. —
We’d like to give a shout-out to previous years winners, who happen to also be our friends, conspirators, and collaborators!
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2012:
Performing Art: Dulce Juarez
Visual Art: Thomas Greyeyes
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2011:
Performing Art: Joseph “Sentrock” Perez
Culinary: Brian and Margita Webb of “Hey Joe!” Filipino Food Truck
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Check out article and other Finalists below!
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Take note and give your creative friends a big pat on the back — we’re announcing the finalists for the 2013 Big Brain Awards.
The award was created to recognize emerging local creatives, and for the past few weeks we’ve been narrowing the long list of submissions to 18 finalists in six categories.
See also:
– 2012 Big Brain Awards Winners Announced
– Big Brain Awards 2013: Nominate Emerging Phoenix Creatives for Cash Prizes
On April 27, from 7 to 11 p.m., we’ll be honoring six winners with $500 cash prizes in the categories of craft, design, online, visual art, culinary, and performing art at Monarch Theatre in Phoenix during our annual Artopia celebration.
We’ll be profiling the finalists in the April 25 issue of New Times and on our blogs in the next few weeks. In the meantime, here are their names:
CRAFT
Ashley Cooper
Keytha Fixico
Brandon Boetto
VISUAL ART
1Spot
Kelsey Dake
David Emitt Adams
PERFORMING ART
MAN-CAT
Leah Marche
Space 55
DESIGN
Lindsay Kinkade
Justin Katz
Jon Arvizu
ONLINE
Dust Circuit Radio
Club Fonograma
Lightning Octopus
CULINARY
Check them out on Chow Bella …
Tickets to Artopia go on sale this Thursday, March 28. Stay tuned to the Big Brain page for more details …
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