{"id":990,"date":"2009-08-31T23:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/best_betty_bowen_finalists_eve\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T23:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T06:40:48","slug":"best_betty_bowen_finalists_eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/best_betty_bowen_finalists_eve.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Betty Bowen finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Original post, announcing Betty Bowen Award finalists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/betty-bowen-finalists.html\">here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Finalists this year are <a href=\"http:\/\/jovenciodelapaz.com\/\">Jovencio de la Paz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisa-cooley.com\/artists\/view\/josh-faught\">Josh Faught<\/a> from Oregon; <a href=\"http:\/\/jennyheishman.com\/\">Jenny Heishman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/artists\/johnsonsm\/default.html\">Sean M. Johnson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helloari.com\/%7Ematt\/\">Matthew Offenbacher<\/a> from Seattle. The Northwest&#8217;s oldest award for visual artists is now $15,000 with two runner-up awards of $2,500. Jen Graves <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2009\/08\/28\/betty-bowen-finalists-announced\">wrote<\/a> that she thought that Heishman and Offenbacher were the &#8220;ones to beat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not on the jury, because I&#8217;d want to give it to all of them. This is the strongest lineup of Bowen finalists in the history of the award. If I had to pick one, it would be Sean M. Johnson, but that&#8217;s partly because I know his work best.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seanjohnsonhell.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/seanjohnsonhell.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"354\" height=\"531\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Original post, announcing Betty Bowen Award finalists, here.) Finalists this year are Jovencio de la Paz and Josh Faught from Oregon; Jenny Heishman, Sean M. Johnson and Matthew Offenbacher from Seattle. The Northwest&#8217;s oldest award for visual artists is now $15,000 with two runner-up awards of $2,500. Jen Graves wrote that she thought that Heishman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}