Left to proper: Tempestt Hazel, American Meredith, Jessica Lynne, Nicole Martinez, Paul Chaat Smith, Eva Recinos, Brandy McDonnell, and J Worham (picture by Kevin J. Miyazak, courtesy Rabkin Basis)
The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Basis named eight arts writers as recipients of its prestigious annual prize in recognition of the contributions of visible arts journalists. Among the many 2025 Rabkin Prize winners, introduced right now, September 4, are the founders of novel artwork publishing platforms, profession employees writers at native and nationwide publications, curators, and artists.
Curator Tempestt Hazel, co-founder of the Midwest arts publishing platform Sixty Inches From Heart; critic Jessica Lynne, co-founder of the web artwork journal ARTS.BLACK; Fountainhead Arts Deputy Director Nicole Martinez; Oklahoma tradition reporter Brandy McDonnell; America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), publishing editor of First American Artwork Journal; nonfiction author Eva Recinos; writer and curator Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation); and New York Occasions Journal Employees Author J Wortham have been acknowledged for mental and inventive contributions to visible arts journalism.
Every winner will obtain an unrestricted money award of $50,000. This yr’s winners mark the competitors’s ninth cohort since its 2017 founding and $4 million in complete prizes.
4 of this yr’s winners — Recinos, Meredith, Martinez, and Lynne — have beforehand contributed to Hyperallergic, and Hazel served as a 2024 choice panelist for the Craft Archive Fellowship, organized by the Heart for Craft and Hyperallergic.
Final yr, Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian and feminist critic and curator Lucy Lippard every acquired the Rabkin Basis’s Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award for visible arts writing.
Candidates for the prize are nominated by people working within the visible arts, who’re then thought-about by a jury. This yr’s jurors included New Yorker Employees Author Hua Hsu, artwork critic and writer Joanne McNeil, and Institute for Modern Artwork at Virginia Commonwealth College Govt Director Jessica Bell Brown.
“There is not a lack of brilliant, inventive, playful minds in our field, writers who work with so much devotion and care to bear witness to what artists do,” Schumacher stated. “Every year, the list of Rabkin Prize winners gives me enormous hope not only about the profession but about the state of art itself.”
