About West Prize
In addition to adapting and creating the West Collection "back office"—their internal art collection database management system—and primary web presence, Mimeya also built the host site for the Collection's famed West Prize.
The West Prize annual competition launched in 2008 with the mission to find exciting new artists and add them to the West Collection. In its inaugural year, the West annual acquisition budget of $125,000 was offered to 10 artists. With the website we built making contest entry virtually effortless, applications flooded in—from 3,600 artists from 73 countries, in fact. West Collection curator Paige West was left with the enviable job of selecting the 10 most innovative artists from the field of hundreds of worthy candidates. West hopes that the website's ease of use will encourage artist to apply for the prize until they are acquired by the Collection.