What Makes a Bridgemaker? A Conversation With This Year's Prize Winners

Join the 2026 Bridgemaker Prize winners, the San Diego Museum of Art and Westmoreland Museum of American Art, for a conversation exploring the innovative projects and partnerships that earned these museums national recognition and how they plan to use their award funding to advance their work and deepen community impact. What You'll Learn: What the Bridgemaker Prize is and what distinguished this year's winning proposals How the recipients plan to use their award funding to support future projects Transformative ideas and approaches to help strengthen funding applications How sustained engagement with Art Bridges can create greater impact for your museum