ANEKA INGOLD’ S EMPOWERING, DEITY- LIKE FIGURES WIN THE INAUGURAL BENNETT PRIZE AT THE MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF AR
On May 2, painter Aneka Ingold was sitting in a crowded reception hall and as the artists around her were being honored her mind drifted back to the studio. “Tomorrow, it will all just get back to normal. I’ll just go back to my studio and that will be it,” she remembers thinking. “But then they called my name and it was like a dream.”
The award she won was the inaugural Bennett Prize, created to honor the work of figurative realist women painters, and while she was up on the stage preparing to accept the award all she could do was take a deep breath. “This is going to change my life,” she said to herself on the stage. Bennett Prize co-founder Elaine Melotti Schmidt overheard her. “She tapped me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear, ‘You are changing your life,’” Ingold says.
It’s a small distinction, but one that shook theyoung artist to her core, and one that forms the foundation of The Bennett Prize, which put out a call to women artists all around the country so it could find artists who were exploring those key insights that are underrepresented in the art world. More than 640 artists applied, each one offering a unique perspective as a woman living in the 21 st century. Ten finalists were chosen for the award, which was given out at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Wisconsin. And from those 10, Ingold’s work was selected for The Bennett Prize, which honors the great achievements women are contributing to realism in America and beyond.
This story is from the July 2019 edition of American Art Collector.
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