An outside panel selected the 2012 grantees. Panelists included Joyce Grimm, a curator, consultant and educator, as well as the Co- Director/Curator and Owner of Triple Base Gallery from 2005-2011; Eleanor Hanson Wise, co-founder and director of The Present Group and Art Micro Patronage; and Kristan Kennedy, an artist and curator who is currently the Visual Art Curator for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.