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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Jonathan Marder + Company
Eve.Hodgkinson@gsmltd.net 917.309.0808
2021 People’s Choice CODAawards
Vote On Favorite Community Artwork, A Global Competition
June 2021 – The general public has the opportunity to vote, June 18th – 30th 2020, on
100 large-scale community artworks from around the world, nominated for a People’s
Choice CODAaward. Hundreds of commissioned art projects were submitted for the
CODAawards, which are given annually to the remarkable works that successfully
integrate art into interior, architectural, and public spaces. The two projects that collect
the most online votes will receive a coveted People’s Choice CODAaward and be
announced, alongside all of this year’s CODAaward winners (one in each of ten
categories), in the August issue of Interior Design magazine.
Vote for your favorite starting June 18th:
https://www.codaworx.com/codaawards/.
Voters are encouraged to rally behind the work they like in the CODAawards categories
of Landscape, Residential, Healthcare, Commercial, Institutional, Liturgical, Public
Spaces, Transportation, Hospitality, and Education.
This year the 374 CODAawards entries represent $477 million in commission fees, and
projects from 30 countries. The diversity of artwork includes “Please Be Seated”, a
public art installation touring across Chinese Mainland; “Sea Change”, an interactive
light-based artwork that activates the pedestrian experience within a bus exchange
transit tunnel in North Vancouver, Canada; and “Eon”, a 30 x 9-foot digital installation
commissioned for Welch Hall, the largest academic facility at The University of Texas.
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Press Contact: Jonathan Marder + Company
Eve.Hodgkinson@gsmltd.net 917.309.0808
Cindy Allen (EIC, Interior Design), Malene Barnett (Founder, Black Artists + Designers
Guild), and Frances Bronet (President, Pratt Institute in New York City), are among the
eighteen jurors, all leaders in the design and art worlds, who have spent weeks
reviewing and scoring all entries. These jurors will agree on one winner in each
category to create the 2021 CODAawards winners circle (plus the two People’s Choice
CODAawardees that the general public will select).
“When artists, designers, industry resources, and clients work together, places are
transformed into spectacular spaces. CODAworx is the hub of the commissioned art
economy. Our CODAawards is a way to celebrate these works. The 12-day People’s
Choice voting sprint (June 18 - 30) becomes quite heated and the heavy traffic
occasionally brings the website down! It is an exciting race to the finish line - the art
world’s equivalent of the Tour de France!” states avid biker and CODAworx CEO Toni
Sikes.
About CODAworx
CODAworx, the hub of the commissioned art economy, is the place where architects,
real estate developers, and public art agencies creative go to discover and hire talent
for large-scale commission projects. They accomplish this by searching the vast
treasure trove of over 8,000 projects that CODAworx members have published on the
website. It is here that one can find and connect with artists who create amazing
sculptures and wall work, as well as atrium and kinetic artwork, light and digital media,
and structural designs such as bridges and buildings. The CODAawards are the
industry’s prestigious awards program that celebrates the projects that most
successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces.
CODAworx produces this nine-year-old recognition program, along with their National
Media Partner Interior Design magazine, to honor the designers, architects and artists
whose collective imaginations create the public and private spaces that inspire us every
day.
