2023 judges

WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT OUR 59TH CGAF JURY PANEL

Carla M. Fox

Jewelry Artist and Director

Carla has been a jeweler & show artist for 30 years, participating in some of the top shows around the country and winning awards

Carla M. Fox

Jewelry Artist and Director

with her pieces in hollow-formed sterling plus dyed and hand-carved wood. She was director of a Portland, Oregon art guild’s show, helped produce an all-metals show, and was the long-time director of the Art in the High Desert Art Show, in Bend, Oregon. She’s been a juror for national shows as well as running the jury for Art in the High Desert. Each year Carla sent out jury feedback to artists who requested it. For many artists, this feedback package increased their acceptance rates in shows. She teaches metals workshops both in-person & online. Carla knows the world of show artists from both sides of the booth.

Cindy Lerick

The Art of Events, Director

Cindy Lerick is the President of The Art of Events, which offers consulting services to a diverse array of events and festivals all over the world.

Cindy Lerick

The Art of Events, Director

Cindy has served as the Executive Director of ArtFest Fort Meyers (Florida), the Sausalito Art Festival (California), the Saint Louis (MO) Art Fair's Executive Director/President from 2009-2017, and the Saint Louis Art Fair's Interim Executive Director in 2019. Previously, she held the position of Executive Director of the Uptown Association (MN) as well as the Uptown Art Fair (1996-2007). Additionally, from 2002 to 2004, she was a co-producer of the Main Street Fort Worth (TX) Arts Festival. Lerick was instrumental in designing the Saint Louis Art Fair Mock Jury program, the Saint Louis Emerging Artists as Entrepreneur program and the Student Art Aficionado program. In August 2022, Lerick received a Master of Art in Creative Events Management, through Falmouth University, located in the United Kingdom. Additionally, Lerick is an active member of the following organizations: ● International Festival & Events Association as a Board member 2005 to present, 2015 Board Chair, 2013 Foundation Board Chair and the Certified Festival & Event Executive Program Manager (CFEE) - inspiring hundreds of festival staff members worldwide. ● ZAPPlication consultant of the online application/jury platform. ● NRPA/IFEA Event Management School ● Convention Speaker. One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because

David Bjurstrom

Artist

David Bjurstrom makes his home in Oregon, where he has lived most of his life but for a just-completed 14-year period in Austin, Texas.

David Bjurstrom

Artist

A full-time artist, he has become known for his detailed and realistic graphite pencil drawings that have received recognition from many of the top art shows across the country over the past 35 years. That work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections both in the US and around the world. His lesser known background is 20 years as a professional commercial photographer, including having managed the studios of and shot for both the Harry & David and Jackson & Perkins mail order catalogs. His photography often received national recognition within the advertising world. David’s drawings are heavily inspired by the places he travels each year for art shows – some 25,000 miles crisscrossing the United States annually – as well as many international destinations. He has a particular love for Africa travel, where he recently had a very rewarding opportunity to teach drawing to a group of young people in a remote school in Zimbabwe with the Arts For Animals program. He has also been a guest speaker at the University of Texas at Austin, discussing marketing oneself with graduate students in the Theatre & Dance department of the College of Fine Arts. Additionally, he’s taken part in professional discussion panels with artists and art show directors, been a mentor to emerging artists new to the business, and given artist booth photography presentations at ZAPPlication and arts festival conferences around the United States.

Matthew Cornell

Artist

Matthew Cornell was born in Fairfield, CA, in 1964. He was part of a military family that moved frequently

Matthew Cornell

Artist

and that transient childhood has played a significant role in his paintings, especially in the last 15 years. Water and weather were dominant influences in his early landscape paintings. The sublime and meditative observations of land and night scenes in detailed, intimate paintings of life in small towns, neighborhoods, and blue highways along the roads of America. Cornell has been part of many group, solo and museum shows since in 1997. Among his many accomplishments is the Florida Prize for Contemporary Art, a distinction bestowed by the Orlando Museum of Art in 2021. He lives and maintains a studio in Chapel Hill, NC.

Miriam Carter

Artist and Executive Director

Executive Director - League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Miriam Carter has worked for

Miriam Carter

Artist and Executive Director

over 30 years as a self-employed artist and enjoys a national reputation and market for her groundbreaking work with fiber. As a fourth-generation feltmaker, she has been committed to the growth and refinement of the craft of feltmaking and its place in the world of wearable art. In 2017, Miriam stepped into the role of Executive Director of the League of NH Craftsmen. Her work has included upgrading and strengthening the League to ensure the continued sustainability of this venerable organization. She has worked on behalf of the members of the 90-year-old organization to expand opportunities to show and sell their work. In her tenure, she has sought opportunities to inform the general public about the value and tradition of handmade craft. Her greatest reward in this new position comes from daily advocating on behalf of her fellow craftsmen and supporting the field of craft.

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