Art in Public Places - Jury
The jury reviews two images at a time. While the jury panel views the images, a staff member reads the short narrative description from the application. The jury panel deliberates, using the selection criteria, while viewing your final two images.
Jurors for the 2008 Public Artist Roster competition were:
Chris Bruce, Director, Washington State University Art Museum, Pullman
Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum
Peggy Kendellen, Public Art Manager, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland
Peter Richards, artist, San Francisco
Norie Sato, artist, Seattle
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Chris Bruce
Chris Bruce joined Washington State University (WSU) in June 2003 as the Director of the Museum of Art, where he has overseen exhibitions of artists, such as Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, and Roy Lichtenstein, seen for the first time by WSU students and art lovers in Eastern Washington. He has written and lectured about a wide range of topics in contemporary culture, including popular music, architecture, and visual art. Prior to moving to Pullman, Bruce served for fifteen years as Senior Curator at the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery, was Director of the former Meyerson & Nowinski Gallery in Pioneer Square, and set up the museum arm of the Experience Music Project, as Director of Curatorial and Collections.
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Rock Hushka
Rock Hushka is Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art at Tacoma Art Museum and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Hushka has curated more than twenty exhibitions at the Tacoma Art Museum, including: Bill Viola: Something Above, Beyond, Below, Beneath and The New York School: The Politics of Abstraction. He has increasingly focused on the art of the Northwest. He has completed exhibition and catalogue projects such as the The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy and the 2003 Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory, which included a national tour and catalogue published in association with the University of Washington Press.
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Peggy Kendellen
Peggy Kendellen has worked in the public art field for nearly 15 years. She manages site specific and temporary public art projects for the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) in Portland, Oregon. She is responsible for launching and sustaining a Public Art Murals Program, acquisitions of works on paper for the Visual Chronicle of Portland, and creating and managing a public art residency program. She has conducted numerous professional development workshops for artists and has spoken locally, regionally, and nationally on public art issues. Kendellen has recently been elected to serve on the Public Art Network Council, a nationally elected advisory body for the arts.
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Peter Richards
Peter Richards is a visual artist who has permanent outdoor installations in New York, California, and Washington. He is currently Senior Artist at The Exploratorium in San Francisco and has taught at the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Arts at San Francisco State University, the Ecole d' Art Aix en Provence, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Stanford University. He was a founder of McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was a Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University.
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Norie Sato
Norie Sato is an artist living in Seattle, whose artwork for public places over the past twenty-five years has incorporated individual, collaborative, and design team work, and planning projects. She works first from context-driven ideas, then finds the appropriate form and materials. Sato's current and past work includes projects nationally and encompasses transit, parks, libraries, universities, infrastructure, airports, and other civic structures. Her work has included sculpture, glass, terrazzo floors, integrated design work, landscape, video, and light. She strives to add meaning and a sense of the human touch to the built environment through her work. Sato also helped to craft policies for Seattle's seminal public art program in the 1970s as a member of the Seattle Arts Commission.
