Creative Time has announced that Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk is the winner of the 2011 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change. Known for creating contexts for interaction through public spaces, she is the third artist to receive the $25,000 award given every year to an artist whose work has been devoted to instigating social awareness and harnessing the communicative power of art to engage communities around critical public issues. The award is presented annually at the Creative Time Summit, a conference that brings together cultural producers - including artists, critics, writers and curators - to discuss how their work engages issues affecting our world.
Image: Jeanne van Heeswijk's Blue House in Amsterdam, a centre for cultural production and radical exploration of urban planning issues
