The jury for Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art has nominated the top five artworks in eight categories for consideration for either a silver or a gold award. Judges Terry Dodson, Tyler Jacobson, Tran Nguyen, Karla Ortiz and Chuck Pyle debated the merits of hundreds of pieces of art before finalizing the nominees on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at the Flesk Publications offices in Santa Cruz, California.

The recipients will be announced at the Spectrum 25 Awards Ceremony that will be held at the historic Brookledge Theater in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Tickets to the ceremony are free, but are extremely limited; owned and operated by the owners of LA’s legendary private club for professional magicians The Magic Castle, the Brookledge Theater is both exclusive and intimate and attendance will be limited to 70 people. (Those interested in attending should send inquiries via the Spectrum website for more information.) The 2018 Spectrum Grand Master Award honoree will also be announced during the ceremony. The nominated works, along with the complete selections of the jury, will be featured in Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art published by Flesk Publications and distributed to the trade internationally by Publishers Group West.