THE 2024 LENSCRATCH ART + SCIENCE AWARD
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED
©Linda Alterwitz, “Briney” from the series “Heat”
©Jeanine Michna-Bales, From the series “Frack-tured Land: Seismic Activity in the Barnett Shale”, 2015 – present.Tower Village Apartments; Irving, Texas.One of seven earthquakes that occurred on the same day.
SUBMISSIONS are CLOSED
Submit work to the third 2024 Lenscratch Art + Science Competition. We are looking for new work made within the last five years that shows an intersection of Art + Science. The topics can be broad ranging—from climate change, environmental challenges, AI, to name just a few. Please submit thought-provoking photographs that investigate the ever-changing state of our complex world.
1st place: $500
2nd place $300
3rd place $200
Two honorable mentions
Submissions Due November 15th
Dec 16-20: publish five posts of the winners in Lenscratch.
Jurors: Linda Alterwitz and Jeanine Michna-Bales
Linda Alterwitz
Linda Alterwitz (American, b. 1960) is an interdisciplinary artist utilizing photography, collage, and interactive methods. Her practice focuses on envisioning the unseen rhythms of the human body and our relationship to the natural world.
Alterwitz sees art as a catalyst for change, highlighting the transformative power of creative expression in addressing societal challenges. By integrating the authenticity of science and the communicative power of art, she creates a bridge between the visible and the unseen, inviting the viewer to reimagine our connection to one another and the world around us.
Alterwitz’s work is held in permanent collections including Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; Getty Research Institute; Hilliard Museum of Art; Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art & Environment archives; Nelson Atkins Special Collections Library; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Fearing Library; Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library; Barrick Museum, UNLV; and the Lilley Museum of Art, UNR.
Jeanine Michna-Bales
Working in the medium of photography, Jeanine Michna-Bales is a fine artist exploring the impact of cornerstone relationships on contemporary society- those relationships between ourselves, others and the land we inhabit. Her work lives at the intersection of curiosity and knowledge, documentary and fine art, past and present, anthropology and sociology, and environmentalism and activism. Michna-Bales’ practice of in-depth research, often from primary source materials, enables her to consider multiple points of view, understandings of cause and effect, and the socio-political context of the subject matters she pursues.
Michna-Bales’ work is held in many permanent collections including Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC; Capital One Corporate Art Collection, Richmond, VA; Comer Collection of Photography, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX; Everglades National Park, Homestead, FL; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Louisiana State University, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, LA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and University of North Texas, Denton,TX.
Required Materials:
link to your project on your website (preferred)
10 images from your project (IF it is not on your website)
3rd person 200 word bio (or less)
1st person 250 word statement (or less)
