Keep Cool Boy - The Jets Aloft in West Side Story

kvd1 — Wed, 08 May 2019 16:04:13 +0000

Tim Fort

In a rare moment, before a Franz Kline-inspired setting, the Jets achieve a perfectly synchronized lift-off in this production of West Side Story mounted in celebration of Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday. After forty-six seasons at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, this production also represented my 60th (and final) happy entanglement directing mostly musical theatre works on the playhouse's historical stage. Twenty-seven performers – from newly minted conservatory graduates to Broadway veterans – enabled this epic work to fly.

Location of photograph:

Weston Playhouse, Vermont

Prize name:

Winner, Art in Action

Submission Year:

2018-19

Unspooling Vermeer

stratg — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:17:01 +0000

Stephanie Dickey

Wherever I go, I look for evidence of how the historical art I study impacts visual culture today. In “After Vermeer 2,” an installation from 2006 by New York artist Devorah Sperber, 5024 spools of thread strung on steel chains recreate, upside down, the famous “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painted by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer around 1665. My photo captures the viewer’s experience of looking through a glass sphere in which the image rights itself. Vermeer, whose paintings explored both optics and female experience, would surely have appreciated this perceptive transformation of his art.

Location of photograph:

Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, USA

Prize name:

Winner, Art in Action

Submission Year:

2017-18