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Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2011 Jury Information

 

A record 1551 artists applied for entry into the 2011 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park. The jury met on November 18, 2010 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Our panel of eight jurors included:

 
 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2011 Jurors

  • Linda Darke - Owner, Darke Gallery
  • Richard Fluhr - painter and Bayou City Art Festival Board Member Emeritus
  • Nicola Parente - painter and Bayou City Art Festival Board Member
  • Alex Rosa - Art Director at 002houston Magazine
  • Cindi Strauss - Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Fletcher Thorne-Thomsen, Jr. - FotoFest Board Member and Founder of Vine Street Studios
  • Bart Truxillo - preservation architect, art collector, Bayou City Art Festival Board Member
  • Karen Turner-Smith - Director of Bulgari in the Galleria

We are very excited about the quality and wide selection of fine art and contemporary crafts that was selected for presentation at Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park, March 25 - 27, 2011.

 

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. Jurors change with each event.
  4. Work is scored on a 1 to 7 scale. Judges are instructed not to award scores of 4.
  5. 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.
  6. Jurors are asked to review all applications at their leisure online during the week prior to the projected jury.
  7. 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.
  8. The jury is not conducted as a personal critique and as such, individual responses are not recorded.