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Edes Prize Winner to Create Ambitious Art Installation

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 27, 2016

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By: Mary Abowd

Eric Watts, MFA’12, uses a video installation to provide viewers a layered experience that is at once intellectual and rooted in the body. “My work is heavily research-oriented,” Watts said, “then there’s the more experiential realm, where viewers walk around and have a bodily interaction with the art.”

Watts is the 2016 winner of the Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a $30,000 award offered…

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