Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Excellence in Art Interpretation Competition!

To read more about the competition, click here.

Best Installed Text

Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors

Content guidance panel

Denver Art Museum

Danielle Stephens, Senior Interpretive Specialist

Best Digital Media

Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture

Audio guide for kids and families

Seattle Art Museum

Ramzy Lakos, Writer
Emily Gardner, Writer
Samia Bouzid, Writer
Dacia Clay, Script Editor

Best Printed Matter

Build Your Own Tour Cards

Self-guided gallery resource

The Walters Art Museum

Roz Kreizenbeck – contributing writer/editor/project manager
Elizabeth Norman – contributing writer/editor
Jordan Britton – contributing writer/editor
Laurel Miller – editor
Melanie Lukas – copy editor
Rachel Minier – designer
Tony Venne – designer

Most Innovative

Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology

Digital Interactive

Getty Museum

Tasia Johnson, Head of Interpretive Content
Karen Voss, Digital Producer
Kevin McGowan, Digital Interactive Media Producer
Steven Gemmel, Digital Media Lead
Nia Roberston, Assistant Digital Media Producer
Maite Alvarez, Interpretation Specialist
Larissa Grollemond, Exhibition Curator
Elizabeth Morrison, Sr Curator of Manuscripts
Leah McCloskey, Exhibition Designer

Juror Prize

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist

Café Cards

National Gallery of Art

Cassandra Anderson, project and content development lead
Lynn Matheny, content editing, translation contracting
Julie Warnament, copy editing
Mariah Shay, graphic design
Mavet Rosas, translation copy editing
Agnes Gomez, translation copy editing
Aaron Beaver, food services support
Bobby Ahmed, food services support
Kevin White, printing

Juror Prize

Biophilia: Nature Reimagined

Digital interactive

Denver Art Museum

Holly Harmon, Interpretive Specialist
Ariana Robles, Coordinator of Family Programs

Juror Prize

Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds)

Family guide

Clyfford Still Museum

Nicole Cromartie, interpretation
Bailey Placzek, interpretation
Joyce Tsai, interpretation
Emily Holden, contractor

Thank you to this year’s jurors!

Jennifer Foley, Principal, Horizon Insights

Karuna Srikureja, Associate Director of Learning & Engagement, Honolulu Museum of Art

Grayston Barron, Manager of Interpretation, Buffalo AKG Art Museum