First champ to pick ArtPrize 10 juried winner

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — ArtPrize One winner Ran Ortner will be back at the world's largest art competition for the first time this fall to help decide who will win the juried grand prize at ArtPrize 10.

ArtPrize announced Wednesday that Ortner will be one of three jurors picking the $200,000 juried grand prize recipient. He will be joined by Lauren Haynes, curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum, and Brooke Davis Anderson, director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Ortner won the $250,000 grand prize in the first ArtPrize in 2009 for his entry "Open Water No. 24." Based in Brooklyn, New York, he hasn't been back to ArtPrize since winning.

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