Alum wins International CODAawards Merit Award
Kana Tanaka MFA 99 GL was awarded the International CODAawards Merit Award for her installation titled Petals of Light.
MADISON, WI, September 1, 2022 – When artists, designers, industry resources and clients work together, common places are transformed into spectacular spaces. CODAworx, the hub of the commissioned art economy, has once again partnered with Interior Design magazine to announce the winners of the eighth annual international CODAawards: Collaboration of Design + Art. The CODAawards recognize collaborations that result in outstanding projects which successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural or public spaces.
Kana Tanaka received Merit honors in the category of Healthcare. The project is a collaboration of Kaiser Permanente, Beth Jones Art Consultant and Kana Tanaka Art, Inc. The project features a suspended canopy of glass flowers made from over 500 dichroic glass petals, vertically woven together to represent a field of lupines. The beautiful glass petals can be viewed from within and outside the glassed two-story space, at Kaiser Permanente Santa Cruz County Medical Offices in Scotts Valley, California.
“The CODAawards recognize the importance of collaboration, and honor the design and art professionals whose collective imaginations create the public and private spaces that inspire us,” said Toni Sikes, CEO of CODAworx.
In its tenth year, the CODAawards received 406 entries from 27 different countries around the globe, representing over $94 million USD in commissions. Merit winning projects were found as far as from Germany to Baton Rouge, from El Paso to Taiwan. The merit winners exemplify the best of what can happen when artists and design professionals collaborate to create artful spaces in our built environment.
An esteemed panel of 18 jurors from the design, architecture, and art worlds judged the submissions. Jury members included Jorge Arango, Design Writer, Editor, Stylist; Clodagh, CEO and Founder of Clodagh Design International; Jeremy Crandell, Project Manager, UAP; Jamie Drake, Co-founder, Drake/Anderson; Jessica-Christin Hametner, Editor in Chief, ICON Magazine; Gisue Hariri, Principal Creative Director, Hariri & Hariri Architecture; Malcolm Holzman, Partner, Steinberg Hart; Guy Kemper, Architectural Glass Artist; Debra Lehman Smith, Founding Partner, LSM; Patrick Marold, Artist/Owner, Patrick Marold Studios Inc; Emre Onur, Chefredakteur, LICHT; Glenn Pushelberg, Yabu Pushelberg; Lauren Rottet, President, Rottet Studio; Carl Thoma, Managing Partner and Founder, Thoma Bravo Private Equity; Barbara Tober, Chair, Museum of Arts & Design; Kevin Walz, Principal, Walzworkinc; Catherine Widgery, Artist, Widgery Studio. The jury selected winners in each of the 11 design categories. Their Top 100 selections were then exhibited online in early summer, where the public was invited to vote for their favorites.
The CODAawards will be covered in the November 2022 online issue of Interior Design magazine and on CODAworx.com, and through eight design + art partner organizations, reaching the largest, most qualified audience of design and art professionals in the world.
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Jenifer Wetterau, Public Relations Manager
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