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Art Journal Wins Utne Independent Press Award
Janet Kaplan and Steven Nelson received an Utne Independent Press Award on behalf of Art Journal at the Venetian Room at San Francisco’s Fairmont HotelArt Journal has won an Independent Press Award from Utne, the nation’s leading magazine of alternative ideas. Art Journal was cowinner with The Comics Journal for coverage in arts and literature. Utne said, “Visually compelling without glitz, rich in ideas without succumbing to art-theory-speak, Art Journal presents substantial essays and wide-ranging Q&As that bring readers deep into the minds of today’s artists.”
Since 1989, winners of the Utne Independent Press Awards have been chosen exclusively by the editors of the magazine through extensive reading and careful examination, rather than by entry forms and fees. All winners of the 14th annual awards were published in the January/February 2003 issue of Utne.
Janet Kaplan, former editor of Art Journal, and Steven Nelson, current reviews editor, attended the awards banquet cohosted by Utne with the Independent Press Association (IPA) on January 18, 2003, during the first annual IPA convention in San Francisco.