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ATLANTA’S ARTADIA AWARDEES ANNOUNCED

By News Desk

A STATEMENT FROM ARTFORUM’S PUBLISHERS

ROBERT IRWIN (1928–2023)

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April 15, 2009 10:20 am

The Fund for Art and Dialogue has announced the inaugural Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta. Awardees at the fifteen-thousand-dollar level are Don Cooper and Jerry Siegel. The five recipients of the three-thousand-dollar awards are Tristan Al-Haddad, Ruth Dusseault, Fahamu Pecou, Larry Walker, and Angela West. In honor of Atlanta arts patron Judith Alexander, Cooper has been named the Judith Alexander Artadia Awardee.

Jurors Jeffrey Grove (curator of modern and contemporary art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta), Clara Kim (gallery director and curator at REDCAT, Los Angeles), and Hamza Walker (associate curator and director of education at the Renaissance Society, Chicago)—conducted studio visits with fifteen short-listed artists drawn from nearly three hundred applicants throughout greater Atlanta for the inaugural Artadia Awards in Atlanta.

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