Ist Prize: Miriam La Rosa (Australia)
Essay: A Guest on the Edge: Manifesta and the Quest for European Unity and Solidarity - Read the essay here.
Honorable Mention: Nimra Khan (Pakistan)
Essay: Rashid Rana, Challenging Notions of Truth - Read the essay here.
Honorable Mention: Zehra Hamdani Mirza (Pakistan)
Essay: Images on Water - Read the essay here.
Distinguished Prize: has been offered to Prof. Dr. Günsel Renda (Turkey)
Special Prize: The editorial staff at Hyperallergic (online) for their continued coverage of the arts and humanities during the dark days of Pandemic-2020. They continue to merge present-day cultural events, book reviews, and academia with extraordinary aplomb.
Comments: Thank you goes to the six essayists who did not win, and I hope they resubmit next year.
ThankYous:
AICA-Awards Committee and AICA-Jurors
Susana Sulic (AICA-France) and Madeleine Bundy (bfa-NYU/Tish) for help with certificates
Firat Arapoğlu (Director of upcoming 53rd Congress, 2021) ; Norman Kleeblatt (President of AICA-USA) ; Seph Rodney, Senior editor at Hyperallergic (Board member, AICA-USA) ; Liam Kelly (Chair of the AICA Congress Committee) and AICA International President Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves for helping to rebuild the Awards Committee, and further promoting/sharing essay writing internationally.
Sincerely,
Jean Bundy, mfa, PhD
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