Meet the 2017 Betty Bowen Award Nominees

This year, there’s a healthy diversity of mediums – from large-scale installations to intricate collage works and textile-based collaborative performances.by Amber CortesDeborah Lawrence, Eighty Words, 2014, paper and fabric collage, acrylic, varnish on canvas, 41.25 x 3 4.5 inches.COURTESY OF THE ARTISTFor almost 40 years now, the Betty Bowen Awards have been spotlighting emerging Pacific Northwest artists and giving them money – an unrestricted cash award amount of $15,000, t