Niche Awards Due Date!

2010 NICHE Awards
Professional Deadline: Aug. 31

www.NICHEAwards.com

2009 Deadline Overview

July 22nd: 2009 Pilchuck Auction (passed)

August 11th: 2010 Seattle City Artist Projects

August 30th: 2010 Niche Awards

October 1st: New Glass Review 31

2010 NICHE awards call for entry

In an email from the Rosen Group:

"About the program: Sponsored by NICHE magazine, the annual NICHE Awards competition celebrates excellence and innovation in American and Canadian craft. Artists are recognized in both professional and student divisions. Award categories include: Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood, Jewelry, Mixed Media and more. Finalists are invited to display their work in a special NICHE Awards exhibit during the February 2010 Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft. Winners will be announced at the February Buyers Market and featured in an issue of NICHE magazine.

Entry Deadlines:

Professionals: August 31, 2009
Students: September 30, 2009"

Glass Awards (not scholarships)

This post contains an unfinished list of international awards given specifically to glass artists. My intent is to include the criteria used by the judges and a list of past winners in this post as I gather more information.


Ranamok Glass Prize, formerly RFC (until 2001)
Prize Money: $15,000 acquisitive award
Residency: Australia and New Zealand
Criteria: "This work should be innovative, displaying excellence and imagination in quality of idea and execution in contemporary practice."
Website: http://www.ranamok.com/

Kanazawa Glass Award
Prize Money: Grand Prize ¥ 1,000,000 (awarded to 1 work)
The 10th Memorial Event Special Prize ¥ 700,000 (awarded to 1 work)
Gold Prize ¥ 500,000 (awarded to 1 work)
Silver Prizes ¥ 200,000 each (awarded to 4 works)
Honorable Mention ¥ 50,000 each (awarded to 6 works)
Jurors Special Prizes (awarded to several works)
Residency: World
Criteria: "The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, first established in 1984 as the world’s only international glass exhibition with public call for entry... In each of the past events, the exhibition drew many excellent works from some 40 countries and has been highly recognized as a global showcase of the new trends in the world of glass art."
Website: ??? http://www.design-ishikawa.jp/glass2007/entryinfo_e.pdf.

Coburg Glass Prize
Prize Money: € 35,000
1st prize: 15,000
2nd prize: 10,000
3rd prize: 5,000
4th price: 3.000 €
Residency: Europe
Criteria: "The prize is devoted to free artistic design in glass in Europe. Outstanding works of contemporary glass art are to be acknowledged and then presented in an exhibition."
Website: http://www.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de/glaspreis/participation.html

Jutta-Cuny Franz Award
Prize Money: 1,50o euros, 2 awards
Residency: World
Criteria: "...in particular work by artists showing unusual promise."
Website: http://www.museum-kunst-palast.de/UNIQ123986246311706/SES60983256/lang1/doc1012A.html

Tom Malone Prize
Prize Money: $10,000
Residency: Western Australia
Criteria:
Website: http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/TomMalonePrize.asp

Urban Glass Award
Prize Money:
Residency:
Criteria: "celebrate outstanding achievement in glass and increases worldwide awareness of contemporary glass art, design and architecture."
Website: http://www.urbanglass.org/?q=UrbanGlassAwards

Niche Awards
Prize Money:
Residency: USA, Canada
Criteria: "Sponsored by NICHE [“neesh”] magazine, the annual NICHE Awards competition celebrates excellence and innovation in American and Canadian craft. Artists are recognized in professional and student divisions."
Website: http://www.americancraft.com/NICHE_Awards/introduction_page.html

Saidye Bronfman Award
Prize Money: $25,000 + an original work of art
Residency: Canada, professional artists only
Criteria: "Nominees must be professional artists who have made a substantial contribution to the development of fine crafts in Canada over a significant period of time (at least 10 years; fewer under exceptional circumstances)."
Website: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggavma/

Hans Godo Frabel Award and the Frabel Novice Award
Prize Money: $2,000 Award, $1,000 Novice Award
Residency: World
Criteria: Judged by peers. "Originality of design and creativity, degree of difficulty, innovative use of materials, mastery of the techniques utilized, aesthetics, overall technical quality of the piece.”
Website: http://www.myglassart.org/frabelawards

Zwieseler Kölbel
Prize Money: 5,000 euros split 6 ways
Residency: Europe (artist's under 30 yo)
Criteria: Jury and Public, theme
Website: http://www.zwiesel-tourismus.de/en_ausschreibung.pdf.

The Glass Sellers Award
Prize Money: 5,000 pounds (student prize is 1,000 pounds)
Residency: UK
Criteria: "We are looking for originality and talent in the use of glass as a medium of artistic expression and the awards are presented for the artistic and technical excellence of submissions predominantly in glass but specifically excluding stained glass windows."
Website: http://www.glass-sellers.co.uk/glasssellers-22.htm

British Glass Biennale Award "People's Prize"
Prize Money: "The winning artists will receive professional support and promotional materials donated by Craftsman craft&design Magazine and Warm Glass UK, sponsors of the event."
British Glass Biennale Award "Student"
Prize Money: 1,000 pounds
British Glass Biennale Award "Best in Show"
Prize Money: 8,000 pounds
Residency: UK residency for 2 years or more
Website: http://www.biennale.org.uk/background.php

Niche Award 2009

The Niche Magazine Awards 2009 The Student Glass Category Winners: Glass: Functional "Ampolina/Mezza Stampo Goblets" by Tanner Clark @ Emporia State University photo by: John Lucas Glass: Sculptural "Aldali Tower" by Thoryn Ziemba @ Appalachian Center for Craft The Professional Blown & Lampworked Glass Categories, Winners: photo by: Peter Debe Glass: Blown "Herd Mentality" by Rick Eggert @ Stuart, Fla. photo by: Tami Meader Glass: Lampworked Coral Octopus Jennifer Umphress Kingston, Wash. "2009 NICHE Awards Winners List" Accessed April 16, 2009. http://www.americancraft.com/NICHE_Awards/introduction_page.html What is Niche Magazine? This is from their website: "Each year NICHE sponsors The NICHE Awards the highest recognition for both production and limited-edition craft works made in the United States and Canada. The NICHE Awards ceremony isheld each February at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, in conjunction with the Buyers Market of American Craft. In addition to NICHE magazine, the Rosen Group also publishes AmericanStyle magazine. NICHE magazine is the only magazine published exclusively for craft art galleries, main street stores and small retail businesses that daily fight for survival against big box retailers such as WalMart and Target. These progressive retailers are the pioneers of urban revitalization and growth for main streets in small towns throughout America. NICHE magazine offers retailers exclusive new resources for alternative, creative upscale merchandise that appeals to affluent retail customers. The NICHE philosophy is that it takes unique products to help retailers survive in today's competitive retail environment. NICHE magazine advertisers and on-line art search resources include art studios and producers of wholesale gifts and decorative accessories that are "Made in the USA"." http://www.nichemag.com/ME2/dirsect.asp?sid=208A9B3CABE24EDB8A680A46E81258C7&nm=About+Niche