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2008 Artist Market JudgesLinda Armstrong Linda Armstrong is Director of the Visual Arts Program at Emory University. She is a sculptor who works in a wide variety of media. She holds a B. F. A. from the Atlanta College of Art, 1973, and a M. F. A. from Georgia State University, 1978. In 1973 she also received a Summer Fellowship to attend the Yale University School of Music and Art. Armstrong has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, the Fulton County Arts Council and the Georgia Council for the Arts. She was recipient of a grant from the Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts in 1992. She has had one-artist exhibitions at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Spruill Gallery and Converse College. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Drawn in Georgia: works on paper from the MOCA GA permanent collection in 2006. Her work is included in the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport collection. She recently returned from the Caversham Centre in South Africa, supported by a Fulton County Arts Council Grant. Clara Dodd Blalock Clara Blalock is a native Atlantan. She is a graduate of Stratford College in Danville, Virginia and received a BFA degree from the Atlanta College of Art. Clara has pursued a career as a professional painter for about 25 years. Working daily in a studio in the Tula Art Center in Atlanta, Clara produces large works in oil that are shown and sold in galleries in Atlanta; Boston; Camden, SC; Destin, FL; Evanston, IL; Greenville, NC; Jacksonville, FL; Tuscaloosa, AL and Vero Beach, FL. Julia A. Fenton Julia A. Fenton has spent most of her professional art career, spanning almost 40 years, in Atlanta – as a practicing visual artist, curator, arts administrator, grants writer, editor and publisher. She is founding editor of both Contemporary Art/Southeast Magazine and Art Papers. As Director of the Atlanta Artworkers Coalition (founded in the 1970’s), she was responsible establishing Atlanta’s first information resource center for artists, which included comprehensive material on funding and exhibition opportunities as well as information on health hazards for artists. She developed Metro Atlanta’s first Artists Directory and Slide Registry, which was expanded to cover Georgia. She was a founding member of the Atlanta Women’s Art Collective. She served for several years as Gallery Director for Nexus Contemporary Art Center (now The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center). She worked for a number of years as Gallery Director for the City Gallery at Chastain and as the first Gallery Director for City Hall East Gallery. From 1996 – 2005, she lived in Toledo, Oregon, where she was elected to the City Council and where she served on the Community Development Committee for the League of Oregon Cities, the Advisory Committee for Cascade West Tri County Council on Senior Citizens, as a founding Board member Crossroads (a non profit court mandated re-education program for convicted perpetrators of domestic violence), the Advisory Council for the Ollala Children’s Day School (for children with developmental disorders), and was an appointed member of the Oregon Coast Zone Management Association (which provided the state government with information on fishing, port authorities and coastal waters). Erik Haagensen Erik Haagensen is a graduate of Georgetown University where he studied theology, philosophy, psychology and business. In 2001 his focus shifted to clay and he began to chase the dream of creating a large community art studio dedicated to clay. He is now the co-owner of Mudfire Clayworks in Decatur, Georgia. Mudfire shares space with 150 artists and students, produces monthly gallery exhibits, and host artists from around the world for workshops. This large public studio environment provides a constant stream of new influences and an incredibly wide range of equipment, clay, and firings to experiment with. Erik’s clay work reflects the diversity of this environment and currently makes functional ware, abstract and figurative sculpture, and paintings on clay while continuing to explore other media. www.mudfire.com Leslie Kay Kuhn Award winning Georgia native Leslie Kay Kuhn has been painting in various mediums for 30 years. Extensive travel has given Leslie a wealth of imagery to draw from. Her artwork demonstrates a dynamic freshness whether it is about light, color or an abstraction of past events in her life. Leslie is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Member of Excellence of the Atlanta Artists Center, Member of Excellence of the Southeastern Pastel Society and a member of North Tahoe Arts in California. Over the years, she has won numerous awards in National and regional show. In 2006 she won First and Third Place in the Abstract Category in THE PASTEL JOURNAL’S “Pastel 100 competition”. In 2007 she won 4th place and an honorable mention. This year she placed fourth and had two honorable mentions. Her work is in the April 2008 issue of “Pastel Journal”. Her work also appears in PURE COLOR, BEST OF PASTEL, published in 2006.
Margaret Yarbrough currently serves as the Director of Scholarship Review at the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD-Atlanta). Margaret holds her M.Ed with a concentration in art from the University of Virginia and her B.A. in Art History from Duke University. Her experience at the University of Virginia consisted of teaching an undergraduate course, twice judging the annual student juried art show, and leading education programs at the University of Virginia Art Museum. Margaret’s resume also includes several years working for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington D.C., two years as a docent for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and a completed internship with the National Gallery of Art.
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