Of course, the recipients of the Genius awards—proudly identified as “the largest direct-to-artist grants in Washington State” by Stranger Editor-in-Chief Dan Savage—were announced in Thursday’s Stranger, but the actual giving-out of the prizes, in a short-and-sweet ceremony, manage to be enthusiastic and unstuffy, and are an event in their own right.
Highlights of the evening include Literature Genius Rebecca Brown implying that her $5,000 grant would be instrumental in taking a trip to Barcelona with her lover, Arts Editor Christopher Frizzelle honoring the Visual Art winners’ trio of Sutton/Beres/Culler for their attempts to bring art to such far-off and uncultured places as Bellevue and Des Moines, and representatives from the Frye Art Museum taking some true pride in the last stellar year that brought them to the Awards tonight.

Rachel Kessler and Michael Seiwerath

Beres/Sutton/Culler

Women of the Frye