2014 cadd fund WINNER
Julie libersat
mfa unt
November 20, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, DALLAS, TX
Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas announce winner for its first CADD FUNd competition!
Sunday evening, November 16th, after soup was served, 150 audience members listened to 6 different graduate students’ presentations of projects they would like to fund. This hugely successful event at 3015 at Trinity Groves was a highly interactive community fundraiser involving six artist presentations, questions, and finally, voting for the winner by ballot. Julie Libersat, a University of North Texas student, was announced the winner and recipient of a check in the amount of $5,500.
Ms. Libersat is pursuing a Master of Art Education and a Master of Fine Arts in New Media from the University of North Texas in Denton. Her proposed project, called “ROAM”, is an interactive urban exploration and mapping game for smart phones that helps players “get lost”. She states that the mobile app is a creative tool that helps players get lost as a prompt to have an artistic interaction with the environment through disorientation.
For more information on this project and the artist, click on the link below.
The six finalists presenting proposals were:
Tim Best – MFA, 2014, SMU
Lynne Bowman – MFA candidate, UNT
Ellie Ivanova – MFA candidate, UNT
Anansi Knowbody, MFA candidate, SMU
Julie Libersat – MFA and MA candidate, UNT
Fari Rahimi – MFA, 2013, UNT
Our 2014 finalists were selected from a pool of graduate students within 100 miles of Dallas. Jurors were Gabriel Ritter, the Nancy & Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art; Judy Deaton, Chief Curator at The Grace Museum; and William Rudolph, Ph.D., The Marie & Hugh Halff Curator of American Art and Mellon Chief Curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
This event would not have been possible without the support of our sponsors: Amberjax, The Bowdon Family Foundation, BufordHawthorne Home Builders, LP, Craighead Green Gallery, Laura & Walter Elcock, Empire Baking Company, Glazer’s, Luck, Potato Flats, Scot Presley, Resto Gastro Bistro, Karen & John Reoch, Nancy & Rick Rome, Gail Sachson – Ask Me About Art, Sharon Van Meter – 3015 at Trinity Groves, Souk, with Music by Michael Swim.