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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Genius 2012 Genius Award Winners: Megan Griffiths, Grady West, Sarah Bergmann, Ellen Forney, and Lori Goldston!

Posted by Megan Seling on Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:25 PM

The opening act everyone kept going on about, Retro Verso:

Lynn Shelton on making films in Seattle and this year's film finalists, Shaun Scott, Drew Christie, and Megan Griffiths:

And this year's film Genius is... Megan Griffiths!

Sarah Rudinoff explains the brilliance of Keri Healey, Zoe Scofield, and Grady West:

Grady West emails his acceptance speech!

Jeffry Mitchell on what artists need:

And this year's art Genius is... Sarah Bergmann!

Marya Sea Kaminski on seeing Kary Wayson, Ed Skoog, and Ellen Forney read together recently:

And this year's literary Genius is... Ellen Forney!

Lori Goldston gets the music award (and a hilarious technical assist from Susanna Welbourne):

All videos by our What You're Not Wearing street fashion expert Timothy Rysdyke.

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Is Seattle art that bad that a gardener won the art award? She didn't even attempt anything artistic or fantastic as Jeff Koons plant puppy. Can someone please ask the Genius who thinks a generic garden is art and of a caliber of receiving praise as an art god! You should be ashamed as an art critic for diminishing true art geniusness. Dont get me wrong the garden is fantastic for the neighborhood and urban planing much like most gardens and landscaping are but I am now beginning to despise the art scene in Seattle like a cancerous growth killing what is good because of this snotty uneducated art leadership so content with the safe boring awfulness. Do you not have a concept of what art is? Im sure you read Jerry Saltz. What do you think he'd say about this crap. I'd still bet you wouldn't understand or know what emerging art is if it isn't a salmon or tree painting. There needs to be an uprising against the art dictators in this city because from what i've seen the drunks at the bar know more then you.

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