2020 Winners:
Megan Broughton
Svalbard, 79.75° North: Pack Ice II: State II Shifting, First Place in The Next Big Thing 2020
Meet our Juror:
Leah Ollman
Leah Ollman writes about the visual arts for the Los Angeles Times, Art in America and numerous other publications. Ollman was a correspondent for ARTnews for ten years, she has written over 800 reviews and features for the LA Times and 85 articles for Art in America as well as numerous reviews published in Photograph, Craft, Art on Paper, Ceramics, ARTnews, Art Nexus, Afterimage, High Performance. Her books and exhibition catalogues include Alison Rossiter: Expired Paper, William Kentridge: Weighing…and Wanting, The Photographs of John Brill, Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar, and Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars. Ollman has been a Hambidge Fellow in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Previous Winners:
Gary Aagaard
Blinded by Delight First Place in The Next Big Thing 2019, Juror: Mat Gleason
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Nicholas Hullibarger
Spatial Binary First Place in The Next Big Thing 2017, Juror: Tish Greenwood
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Exhibition Installation:
This exhibition is held in our 3,000 square foot gallery and hung by an experienced installation team lead by Bob Privitt, Professor Emeritus at Pepperdine University.