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Visual Art

Artist Jack Daws Wins the Betty Bowen Award

by Jen Graves • Sep 21, 2015 at 11:25 am

This is Jack Daws's sign that's not a sign but that's art, part of this summer's Duwamish Revealed. Courtesy of the artist

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Today, the art of Seattle's Jack Daws (most recent work) is declared officially "original, exceptional, and compelling" by the Betty Bowen Award committee, which annually gives a Northwest artist $15,000 in unrestricted funds.

Two artists also win $2,500 each in Special Recognition Awards, and this year those are Eirik Johnson of Seattle (one of my favorite of his photographs) and Lou Watson of Portland.

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