Is art just a pretty picture or can it change the world? Should it make you think? Should it make you act?

Every spring, Team Kenan invites Duke students to submit original artwork that demands change, makes viewers laugh, squirm, grimace, cry, or wonder – and confronts the question, “How ought we live?”

We are now accepting submissions for the 2012 What Is Good Art? Competition! This year’s theme is “How much truth can art bear?”

A distinguished panel of experts in art and/or ethics will convene to select pieces for display in the 2012 What Is Good Art Exhibition and to award First, Second, and Third Prizes. Viewers in attendance for the opening gala on April 9th will have the opportunity to vote for a separate “Gallery Choice” Prize. We are pleased to announce that the judges for the 2012 What Is Good Art? Competition are:

Christopher Bass, Vice President at Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P.
William Fick, Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts
Noah Pickus, Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics
Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Nasher Museum of Art
Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual and Media Arts
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor in Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics
Charles Thompson, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Center for Documentary Studies

First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $300
Third Prize: $100
Gallery Choice Prize: $100

The deadline for submissions is March 14, 2012.

Click here for contest guidelines and submission info.

View the 2011 What Is Good Art? Exhibition selections and read Team Kenan’s curation booklet here.

See artwork and information related to the 2010 What Is Good Art? Competition and Exhibition here.