Reed Magazine, the literary and arts journal of Reed College, has long served as a forum for work that prizes formal intelligence and intellectual rigor over trend. The Mary Blair Award for Art extends this tradition by recognizing a single artist with a $1,000 prize, selected from submissions of up to five stand-alone or series-based works. The award is open to all media, including photography, and carries no entry fee, reflecting the magazine's commitment to broad access rather than gatekeeping. The award is not a residency, despite its categorization here; it is a publication prize with a cash component, and its curatorial logic is rooted in the magazine's editorial sensibility. Reed Magazine seeks work that engages its audience in a dialogue—work that is conceptually substantive, visually or materially considered, and capable of holding its own within a journal that also publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The jury is not looking for a single aesthetic; it is looking for a distinct artistic voice. Artists should note two institutional policies that shape the submission context. First, Reed Magazine limits free-category submissions to two per person per reading period, though the Mary Blair Award falls under the paid categories, which have no cap. Second, the magazine explicitly declines work that appears to be generated by AI, while welcoming pieces that interrogate AI as a subject. This is a juried award with a defined deadline and a clear prize; it is not a broad call for portfolios, but a focused opportunity for artists to present a concise body of work to a discerning editorial team.