Not only does the public get the opportunity to pick the 2017 winners in the Besser Museum’s Best Foot Non-Juried Art Exhibit, they also have the final say on how the money raised through this fundraising exhibit will be spent.

Vote donations received from Oct. 6 through Oct. 20, at $1 each, are earmarked for framing one of the museum’s permanent fine artist collections. Once the framing is completed, the winning collection will then go on exhibit in 2018.

But which artist will it be – Itzchak Tarkay or Hoi Lebadang?

Tarkay, an Israeli artist born in 1935 on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border, was educated at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Avni Institute of Art and Design. Known for his artworks focused on almost dreamlike images of elegant women in classical scenes, Tarkay died on June 3, 2012 in Detroit.

The Besser Museum owns nearly a dozen of his large scale serigraphs. His worked has never been seen in its entirety and only a few pieces have been exhibited individually over the years.

Lebadang was born in Vietnam and emigrated to France in 1939 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. His work fuses the cultural influence of Europe and the Orient in his poetic visions of watercolor, sculpture and lithography.

Besser Museum owns nearly 20 of Lebadang’s mix media lithographs. Like Tarkay, his work has only ever been shown a piece at a time. The artist died in 2015.

Announcement of which artist museum visitors selected will be announced on Nov. 19 at the start of the annual Season of Light exhibit.