Juneau artist, Lily Hope has been awarded the 2023 Marie Darlin Prize. The $5,000 Marie Darlin Prize is administered through the Juneau-Douglas City Museum (JDCM) and is awarded annually to an individual or collaboration whose work, through a combination of vision and shared sense of community, expresses a regional commitment to women’s rights, social history, or community advocacy. The Juneau Community Foundation’s Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum provides the funding for the prize. Lily Hope was chosen to receive this prize because of her outstanding body of work, which expresses a regional commitment to social and cultural history. Read more.
Photo: Amy Skilbred, Juneau Community Foundation Executive Director; Lily Hope, 2023 Marie Darlin Recipient; Mary Lou Madden, Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum Board President.