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The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Award Ceremony Saturday, July 11, 7 p.m.

The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Galleries Open 6 p.m. / Award Ceremony 7 p.m. / Reception 7:30–9 p.m.

2009 Finalists:
Baltimore Development Cooperative, Baltimore, MD
Leslie Furlong, Baltimore, MD
Ryan Hackett, Kensington, MD
Jessie Lehson, Baltimore, MD
Molly Springfield, Washington, DC
Karen Yasinsky, Baltimore, MD

The winner is chosen by an independent panel of jurors and announced at a special ceremony on Saturday, July 11. This year’s jurors are Ellen Harvey, a New York-based artist; Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. This prestigious award is named after the late Baltimore civic leader Walter Sondheim and his late wife, Janet.

RSVP by Tuesday, July 7 to Margo Wright 410-752-8632 or [email protected].

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