2009 Art Show Jurors and Judges

The Festival jurors for 2009 were Krist Lien and Laine Wyatt. Krist Lien received his BFA, concentrating in sculpture, from Auburn University and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Alabama. His work is in various collections in the U.S. and England. He has judged exhibitions at various local galleries and festivals and is currently the Art Department Chair at Pensacola Junior College. Laine Wyatt is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida where she has taught art and photography since 2000. Her undergraduate degree in studio art/photography is from the University of Florida and received her MFA in studio art/photography from Florida State University. Wyatt has exhibited her work in approximately 100 shows across the nation and in Europe and has won a number of awards for individual works.

The 2009 Judges were Dian Magie and Scott Stephens. Dian Magie became director of the University of North Carolina, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (CCCD) in 2000 after 18 years in arts administration, the first three as Director of the Arts Council of Northwest Florida. In Arizona she served for 12 years as Director of the Tucson-Pima Arts Council. Magie also curates exhibits for the CCCD gallery focusing on regionally and nationally recognized craft artists and developed two national grant programs. She has written and been awarded National Endowment for the Art Grants in Visual, Design, and Folk Arts, and participated as a panel member on several NEA grant panels. As one of the initial organizers of the GGAF, it is her distinct pleasure to return and judge the high quality work by artists who are selected to exhibit. Scott Stephens is a printmaker and Professor of Art at the University of Montevallo, where he has taught since 1983. He earned his BFA degree at Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied with Peter Marcus, an innovator in large-scale printmaking and completed his MFA at the University of Alabama. Stephens’ prints have been seen in over 100 exhibitions and are held in regional public collections such as the art museums of Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Montgomery, as well as private and corporate collections nationally. Stephens’ long term involvement with big prints has lead to the creation of large format printmaking facilities at the University of Montevallo that feature a 44 x 84 inch Takach etching press.