ASA Announces New Prize on Social Justice and the Arts

Friday, November 13, 2020
Posted by: Julie Van Camp

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The American Society for Aesthetics in pleased to announce a one-time prize for new, unpublished work on Social Justice and the Arts. The Prize was approved November 11, 2020, by the ASA Board of Trustees, following a recommendation by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

The complete guidelines:

i) Amount. The amount of the Prize is $1,000. Travel support up to $1000 will be available to present the work at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the ASA. Funds for the prize will be drawn from the revenue from the Irene H. Chayes bequest.

ii) Deadline. The deadline for submission will be 15 January 2022.

iii) Eligibility. Entrants must be members of the ASA as of the submission deadline.

iv) Essay Content and Length. The essay should address social justice and the arts, broadly understood. The essay should be a maximum of 7,500 words. Entries will also be considered for publication in JAAC, unless the entrant requests otherwise.

v) Judging. The judges for the Prize are drawn from members of the JAAC Editorial Board by the editors in consultation with the Board. (The Prize may not be awarded if, in the opinion of the judges, no entry of sufficient merit is received.)

vi) Presentation. The winning essay will be published in JAAC. The author will also have the opportunity to read the paper at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics that follows announcement of a winner.

vii) Submission Requirements. Submissions may not have been previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. Upload submissions to the JAAC online submission website, https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaac. Submissions should include an abstract. Make sure the submission letter clearly identifies the paper as a submission for the Social Justice Prize.

viii) Questions. Contact jaac@cmich.edu