Prize Winner 2019:
Sarah Hotchkiss
Sarah Hotchkiss is a writer and artist living in San Francisco. She is the senior associate editor for the arts and culture desk at KQED, the Bay Area’s NPR and PBS affiliate. She has written essays and reviews for Art in America, The Creative Independent, SFMOMA’s Open Space, Art Practical, and Squarecylinder. In 2020, she received a Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California award for excellence in arts and culture reporting.
From 2020 to 2023, she co-organized the alternative exhibition space Premiere Jr., commissioning new work from Bay Area artists for a 6-by-12-foot billboard in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and has exhibited her own work nationally.