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BROWSE  
 & VOTE


Browse

Are you ready to start digging around to find what Baltimore's artists are working on this year? As you make your way through the various project nominated for the Baker Artist Awards, you can begin to earn as many as 10 votes to cast in support of your favorite artist or several of your favorites. We encourage you to return to browse the site throughout the voting period which ends on February 15, 2010 at 5 PM.

Tips on Browsing

There are 3 different ways you can browse nominations

Browsing field options

The image re-sizer tool is to be used to view more or fewer images at a time. Drag the slider either way to make timages bigger or smaller OR use the plus or minus signs.

Image resizing tool

VOTES

You must choose an artist to see their complete nomination so you can vote for them. Look for the button below on the artist's nomination page to vote for your chosen artist.

Vote for Artist Name

You could also decide to watch an artist. Look for the button below on the artist's nomination page to place them into your watching queque. You can see these by clicking on the votes button.

Watch Artist Name

The site is built in a way so we can track what you are viewing, then based upon that you'll be given more votes based on your achievements -or "activity" level on the site. You will receive helpful hints on how to obtain more achievements.

or

NOMINATE 
  yourself


Nominate yourself (nominations are now closed for the 2010 awards)

Songwriter? Painter? Sculptor, Composer, make films or video? Performance artist? Dance? Theatre artist? Reject all attempts to be classified? We want you to nominate/document your artistic practice to help us show the world (including our own fellow Baltimoreans) what great art is made by Baltimore's artist. Incidentally, several prizes will be awarded to artists who participate in this process. The web site is designed to make the nomination process accessible to artists with all levels of technology savvy. Nominations deadline is January 15, 2010 at 5 pm.

Add a New Project

You have the ability to add up to 10 projects. These projects should be used to organize your work into different categories.The following fields should be used to add more definition to each project.

Project Overview details Edit Projects

You have the ability to add up to 10 details within each project created. These details can consist of all images, all videos, all sounds, all text or a combination of these to make up your limit of 10.

Project Overview details

Need help with your project nomination?

You will want to put your best work forward, whether music needs to be turned into MP3 files, a performance filmed, a podcast of a reading of fiction or poetry, quality digitized images of your visual work or all of the above. The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance has set up The Lab to help digitally challenged artists. Just email thelab@BakerArtistAwards.org and our knowledgeable staff can get you started.