Jasper is excited to add a new art discipline to the Jasper Artists of the Year Awards this year -- Film!
Filmmakers should have had work screened in a theater, film festival, broadcast, or through a streaming service between November 2018 and November 2019.
Please follow the attached guidelines for submitting your nominations. Deadline is December 1st!
Nominations for
Jasper Artists of the Year 2019
in
Dance, Music, Theatre, Literature, & Visual Arts
Will be accepted from Sunday November 3rd through Sunday December 1st
Individual Artists, 18 and older, working in the greater Columbia arts community are eligible for the title based upon their artistic accomplishments during the period from November 1, 2018 through November 3, 2019.
Nominations MUST be sent to editor@Jaspercolumbia.com with the subject heading “Artist of the Year” and MUST be accompanied by a numbered list of works or accomplishments produced or performed during the designated time period.
Artists MUST be made aware of their nomination before their official nomination and agree to participate in the competition.
Upon closing of the nomination call, a panel of judges will select the top three candidates in each field, and the public will be invited to vote online for their top choices.
Finalist results will be announced in early December.
The JAY 2019 Awards celebration will take place in January 2020 and the winners will be featured in the spring issue of Jasper Magazine.
The category Dance includes: performance, choreography, or direction of any form of dance including, but not limited to ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap, ballroom, folk, or dance-based performance art.
The category Theatre includes: directing or acting in one or more local performances.
The category Music includes: conducting, directing, writing, or performing any style of music in one or more local concerts or recordings; both individuals and groups are eligible.
The category Visual Arts includes: the completion & presentation of a form of non-performing or non-literary arts, such as painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, print-making, mixed-media, etc.
The category Literary Arts includes: the completion, publication, and/or presentation of any form of prose, poetry, or non-fiction writing, as well as playwriting and the writing of executed screenplays.
NEW for 2019! The category Film Arts — Filmmakers should have had work screened in a theater, film festival, broadcast, or through a streaming service between November 2018 and November 2019. Please follow the attached guidelines for submitting your nominations. Deadline is December 1st!
Only individual artists may be considered for nomination. While arts groups, such as musical groups or arts troupes, are not eligible for consideration, individuals within those groups may be nominated. The purpose of the awards is to recognize artistic achievements accomplished within a calendar year. There is no fee to enter. Artists may nominate themselves.
Past Jasper Artists of the Year
2018
Darion McCloud, Trahern Cook, Monifa Lemons, Marcum Core
2017
Al Black, Fat Rat da Czar, Bakari Lebby, Cedric Umoja
2016
Michaela Pilar Brown, Baxter Engle, Mark Rapp, Len Lawsom
2015
Julia Elliott, Kimi Maeda, Dewey Scott-Wiley, Martha Brim, Craig Butterfield
2014
Catherine Hunsinger, Katie Smoak, Darian Cavanaugh, Kathleen Robbins, Greg Stuart
2013
Vicky Saye-Henderson, Terrance Henderson, The Restoration, Janna McMahan, Philip Mullen
2012
Regina Willoughby, Kwame Dawes, Morihiko Nakahara, Chad Henderson, Susan Lenz