Smack Mellon Hot Picks is a new project launched in 2007. The top artists, as selected from the Studio Program applicants by a panel of esteemed curators, arts professionals, and established artists, are featured on the Smack Mellon website for one year. Only the top 19 artists have been selected to be a part of Smack Mellon Hot Picks.
The panelists this year were: Lowery Sims, Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design; Eugenie Tsai, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum; and Frederieke Taylor, owner and director of the Frederieke Taylor Gallery.



