Timeline:

Next Deadline: February 15, 2009

The Juror's Review deadline for the consideration of proposals has past, the results of this first review are linked to the individual juror's biographies.

A second juror's review deadline will be scheduled for March of 2009. Artists are encouraged to continue to submit proposals to the site.

Frequently Asked Questions:

1.   Is there a deadline for entries?

These is no final deadline for uploading entries to the Iraqimemorial.org site – the project is ongoing and indefinite – as goes the war, so goes this competition. At this time, we are establishing a once yearly deadline of an ogoing process of review - a different group of individual jurors will be reviewing all proposals on a yearly basis.

2.*  What is the “first juror’s review”?

The jurors each individually developed a top-ten list from the proposals submitted as of March 19th, 2008. Individual juror’s top ten lists have been published on the site as of May 1st, 2008. This process of submission and review is ogoing. The next review deadline will be February 15th with the next group of juror's review results to be published on March 19, 2009

3.   Why March 19th, 2009?

March 19th, 2003 is considered the start date for “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, this date will be the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.

4.   Who gets to vote on rating the entries?

The public is invited to view and rate the entries using the 5 star rating system available on each proposal page in the exhibition section of the site.  The public vote is completely separate and independent from the jury process.

5.   Will a winner be selected?

No. There will technically not be one winner of the competition but an ongoing process of entry and review by the jury. The hope is that participating artists and designers will feel strongly enough about the importance of memorializing civilian deaths that they will choose to involve themselves in the project.

6.   Are there any plans on building the winning entry? Do you have funds or will funds be raised using the design?

There are no plans to build or realize the entries to this project. Iraqimemorial.org does not have any funds to support the building of memorials. The intent of the project is to create, first and foremost, an Internet based repository of memorial proposals as a memorial in and of itself. Individual artists are encouraged to consider realizing their projects beyond their involvement in Iraqimemorial.org (several are already in the process of doing so).

7.   Are there any plans to create an exhibition or print publication of project proposals?

At this time, there are no plans to exhibit project proposals or create a print publication. A project of this nature, depending upon the response from artists, could very well result in an exhibition or publication of project proposals – we hope that this will happen and have been actively working on a variety of fronts to publicize the project as widely as possible to insure that as many artists choose to participate in the project. A strong showing of support through the involvement of artists developing challenging and interesting concepts will likely insure that such opportunities for further dissemination of project proposals will occur.