• Katy Anderson – Houston-based photographerJeff Forster – Department Head, Ceramics, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Michael S. Guidry – Curator of University Art Collections at the University of Houston
• Patrick Medrano – Houston-based sculptor and painter
• Julio Montano – Houston-based collector
• Kellye Sanford – Houston-based multidisciplinary visual artist, Board President of DiverseWorks ArtSpace and Senior Communications Designer at MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Bart Truxillo - preservation architect, art collector, Bayou City Art Festival Board Member
• Vanessa Wodehouse – Executive Director, Art League Houston

Jury Policies

1. Our panel consists of 7 - 10 jurors. All judges are selected based on their specific interests, professional knowledge and/or background with our festivals.
2. Festival staff are not voting members of the panel and their opinions are not reflected in final jury scores.
3. Each festival, the only jury exempt artists are award winners in their two-year jury exempt period - about 20 - 25 artists per festival.
4. Jurors change with each event.
5. Work is scored on a 1 to 7 scale. Judges are instructed not to award scores of 4.
6. All five slides, four shots of the work and one booth shot, are projected simultaneously. Judges have access to the artist's statement but are not shown the artist's name or any other identifying information.
7. Jurors are asked to review all applications at their leisure online during the week prior to the projected jury.
   
8. Average scores will be emailed to applicants on the Artist Notification Date. Applicants will also be notified of the score necessary to receive an invitation.
9. The jury is not conducted as a personal critique and as such, individual responses are not recorded.