Occasionally,  I provide a behind the scenes update of what’s going on in the office. I’ve decided to start calling that update, “The Experiment Chronicles” because the point is to expose what we’re learning along the way with this first event, which we’ve often called “The Experiment.”

Local Artists
It’s been an accurate assumption that local artists have an advantage in finding a venue. They live here, they know the territory and know a lot of property owners who have been involved in past art events. However, it’s been exciting to hear how many local artists are planning a new work. Maybe because they know the city intimately, they are using ArtPrize as a chance to do site specific work.

Sponsors
We’ve been talking with potential sponsors since the ArtPrize announcement. Several have expressed interest is using the opportunity to bring in  artists they feel passionate about who are not on artprize.org, which would widen out the variety of work showing. We’re excited to see what happens when these works are mixed with all of the other artists who are coming here in a more DIY fashion.

Venues
We’ve seen the matching process start to organically happen. In the last week many artists completed their profile and reached out to venues. Admittedly, it has not been as smooth as we had hoped, but we’ve been tackling a list of changes to the site to streamline the process. Some changes are already made, some are coming soon and others we’ll have to save for next year because we’ve still got to build the voting mechanism.