{"id":1335,"date":"2009-08-17T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/08\/eyes_on_the_artprize\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T08:56:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:56:55","slug":"eyes_on_the_artprize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/eyes_on_the_artprize.php","title":{"rendered":"Eyes on the Artprize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor blogger, Judith H. Dobrzynski, already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/realcleararts\/2009\/08\/artprize-update.html\">heralds the successful milestone of Artprize<\/a>, the international competition drawing artists and arts conversation to Grand Rapids, so I don&#8217;t have to (I blogged about the launch of the initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/glocalizing-grand-rapids.php\">back in April<\/a>). But 1000 artist applications, and 900 already matched to exhibition venues scattered around downtown Grand Rapids, are worth another mention on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Yet more evidence that bold and public prize money, and alignment of other goals behind it, can change the shape of things. As some suggested in comments to my earlier post and elsewhere, the initiative may not be a new idea. But it seems to be an effective one. (Those interested in competitive, innovation prizes should also follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/\">Netflix Prize<\/a>, which attracted some serious programmers to solve one of the company&#8217;s technology goals).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping the folks in Grand Rapids can keep the ball rolling and the incentives aligned all the way through the event itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor blogger, Judith H. Dobrzynski, already heralds the successful milestone of Artprize, the international competition drawing artists and arts conversation to Grand Rapids, so I don&#8217;t have to (I blogged about the launch of the initiative back in April). But 1000 artist applications, and 900 already matched to exhibition venues scattered around downtown Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}