AIA Housing Awards 2022
Image: Robert Hutchison Architecture & Javier Sanchez (JSa), Rain Harvest Home
(La Casa que Cosecha Lluvia), Temascaltepec, Mexico, 2020.
ARCHITECTURE
AIA Housing Awards
The 2022 Housing Awards, presented by the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community, emphasize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource. This year, 14 projects were recognized for this honor across four categories: One- and Two-Family Custom Residences, One- and Two-Family Production Homes, Multifamily Housing and Specialized Housing.
Binding Culture Prize 2022
Image: Natures Mortes, Carte Blanche à Anne Imhof, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2021.
© Aurelien Chauvaud
ART
Anne Imhof
Binding Culture Prize
Acclaimed performance artist Anne Imhof, who represented Germany at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 where she won the Golden Lion for the best national participation, thanks to her performance Faust, has been awarded the Binding Culture Prize 2022 by the Binding Cultural Foundation in Frankfurt. In a statement, the foundation said Imhof is an artist "who, with her collaboratively developed performances, has created a new format of dance, sound and spatial installation that dissolves media boundaries."
About the Binding Culture Prize
Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards
Image: Alexa Velez, Of the Air, 2021.
ART
Maurício Chades
Douglas Tolman
Alexa Velez
Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards
The Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, both based in New York, have announced the three emerging artists that have won the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards, which are given to MFA students or recent graduates in U.S. "to encourage action on climate change amongst the next generation of visual artists." The winners are Maurício Chades (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Douglas Tolman (University of Utah), and Alexa Velez (Washington University in St. Louis).
About the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards
Design Educates Awards
Image: LUO studio, Timber Bridge, Gulao Water Town, Jiangmen, China.
© Jin Weiqi
ARCHITECTURE | DESIGN
Design Educates Awards
The Design Educates Awards annually recognize the best projects that respond to complex social and environmental contexts and carry educational value. The awards look for what will have a lasting impact on users and the environment and showcase the world's best ideas and realizations that can educate. The award-winning solutions include a variety of projects, from innovative installations solving the problem of water shortages in desert areas to bridges and artisan workshops combining tradition with modern designs.
About the Design Educates Awards
Brooklyn Arts Council Grants 2022
Image: Aaron Asis, What Next?, developed in partnership with the Shelburne Craft School,
Shelburne VT, Summer 2020.
ART
Community Arts Grants program
Creative Equations Fund
SU-CASA Creative Aging program
The Brooklyn Arts Council announced that it would award 238 Brooklyn-based artists and cultural organizations as part of its 2022 Community Arts Grants, Creative Equations Fund, and SU-CASA programs. In a statement, BAC executive director, Charlotte A. Cohen said, "As Brooklyn recovers from the effects of the pandemic, we see the strength and resilience of artists in our borough. Their spirits invigorate and lift up communities and remind us of the diversity and vibrancy that are deeply rooted in Brooklyn."
About the Brooklyn Arts Council Grants
Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize
Image: Jamel Shabazz, Fly Girl, SoHo, NYC 2004, Chromogenic print,
Ed. of 9 plus 2 AP, 35 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.), 76 x 60 cm (30 x 24 in.)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jamel Shabazz
Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize
New York–based photographer Jamel Shabazz has won this year’s Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize. With the prize comes the opportunity to make a publication with Steidl. Coming out this fall, Shabazz’s publication, titled Albums, will focus on his influential street photography from the 1970s through the ’90s, spanning Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village, and Harlem. Also included will be portraits Shabazz made of inmates at Rikers Island, where the artist worked as an officer in the ’80s.
