We recently put out a call via social media and email to ask who in our community uses Wissmach Glass in their work and is also participating in @officialpeoplesartist, presented by @johnnydepp, powered by @colossal_impact, benefiting @theartofelysium.
There are many entrants, many rounds of public voting (which began May 4), and we’re excited to shout out these participating members of the Wissmach Glass community!
The Grand Prize winner will be featured in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium Salon. Everyone can vote once per day for free, and there are opportunities to vote more by donation. The names and photos below link directly to these artists’ voting pages:
Folks to browse and vote for:
As of 6/17/2026, none of the known participants using Wissmach Glass in their work remained in the competition.
According to The People’s Artist website:May 4-14 – public voting narrows each group down to the top 20May 14-21 – public voting narrows each group down to the top 15May 21-28 – public voting narrows each group down to the top 10
May 28-June 4 – public voting narrows each group down to the top 5June 4-11 – Group finals; public voting narrows each group down to one preliminary group winnerJune 12-14 – Folks who came in second in their respective groups will be entered into a Wild Card Round to potentially advance to quarterfinals; The top vote getters in the group finals and Wild Card Round will be divided into quarterfinal groups
June 15-25 – The top vote getters in each quarterfinal group will be divided into semifinal groups
June 26-July 2 – The top vote getters in each semifinal group will advance to the finals
July 3-9 – Public voting will determine which finalist will be the grand prize winner; the grand prize winner will be announced on or before August 6
Folks knocked out in previous rounds:
Disclaimer: Wissmach Glass has no affiliation with The People’s Artist or any of the entities running the competition. Public voting takes place over several rounds for about 2 months, so you’ll see artists from all media sharing and asking for votes quite a bit. Succeeding in a competition structured like this will be almost a full-time job. While we’re sharing this initial list to show support to our community, and will keep an eye out to see if any of these artists make it to the final rounds, we won’t be posting about this constantly because we have glass to make!
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