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2011 4 Bridges Merit Awards
Chad Poovey (Sculpture)
- Best in Show
Leon Niehues (Basketry)
- Best in 3-D Mixed Media
Tim Hooper
- Best in Painting
Janine DeCresenzo
- Best in Jewelry
Greg Turco
- Best in Photography
Shadow May
- Best in Ceramics
Jennifer Wells (Jewelry)
- Emerging Artist Award
Best in 2-D Mixed Media
- Ella Richards
Best in Furniture
- Tim Hintz
Best in Sculpture
- Kirsten Stingle
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Meet the 2012 Jury...
AVA is proud to announce the jury for 2012’s 4 Bridges Arts Festival™! Our distinguished jurors are Daniel Stetson, Sylvie Fortin and Amy Pleasant.
Daniel Stetson, new Director of the Hunter Museum of American Art, comes to the Hunter from the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL, where he served as executive director for nearly 15 years.
Stetson joined Polk Museum of Art in September 1996, making him the museum’s longest-serving executive director. Under his leadership, the Polk Museum ’s annual budget doubled and the value of the art collection more than doubled. He led the museum through the national reaccreditation process twice; worked to have the Polk named an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution; and spearheaded a successful capital campaign, which exceeded the $3.7 million goal.
He oversaw development and presentation of more than 250 exhibitions, and helped start the “Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition,” now in its 11th year. Last fall, he initiated the creation of “MayfaireFlorida: Festival of the Arts,” a countywide arts festival. Under his leadership, the Museum received the Central Florida Development Council’s Dick Pope Award in 2008 and the Downtown Lakeland Partnership’s Golden Swan Award in 2003.
Stetson is a native of Oneida, NY, and holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from SUNY Potsdam and a master of fine arts from Syracuse University.
Sylvie Fortin, Editor-in-Chief of Art Papers Magazine, is an independent curator, art historian, critic and editor who has worked internationally since 1991. She was Curator of Manif d’Art 5—the 5th Quebec City Biennale in 2010, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario, 1996-2001), Program Coordinator at la chambre blanche (Quebec City, Quebec, 1991-1994), and a long-term collaborator with OBORO (Montreal, Quebec, 1994-2001). Her critical essays have been published in Canadian, American, and European catalogues, and her reviews have appeared in many periodicals including Art Press, C Magazine, Espace, Fuse, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Parachute.
Fortin studied Art History and Theory at the University of Toronto, Université Laval, and Duke University. She has received numerous significant grants and awards as a critic and curator, as well as for her academic research. Fortin was named Lexus Leader of the Arts in December 2007.
Amy Pleasant received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from The Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
She has held solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, NY, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Rhodes College, Tandem Gallery, The Ruby Green Center for Contemporary Art, and The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions in venues such as The Hunter Museum of American Art, The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum of Art, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, The Mobile Museum of Art, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, The Huntsville Museum of Art, Clifford Chance, and The U.S. Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic.
Pleasant’s work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, The Commercial Appeal and artforum.com.
She currently lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama and is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC.
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