Jurors for 2023 NW Art Beat
Skagit Artists has retained three art professionals to jury the studio tour.
Chloé Dye Sherpe
Chloe Dye Sherpe is the Curatorial Project Manager for The Lumiere Group, an art consulting company that specializes in corporate collections. Chloe manages art acquisitions and works with contemporary, emerging artists all over the world. Recent acquisitions include artworks by John Grade, Ellen Lesperance, Jennifer Zwick, and Gillian Theobald. Prior to joining The Lumiere Group, Chloe was the curator at the Museum of Northwest Art. During her three-year tenure at MoNA, Chloe either curated or coordinated over thirty exhibitions and brought over 150 artists to the museum. Chloe received her MA in Art History from the University of Florida.
Jennifer Bowman
Jennifer Bowman is an award-winning Puget Sound artist who has exhibited professionally for 25 years. Her works appears in private, public, and corporate collections, nationally and internationally, and in various publications: Washington’s Heirloom Birth Certificate, North-light Art books and 48 Degrees North. She has been festival poster artist for Edmonds, Anacortes, Skagit Tulip Festival 2004 and 2020, Whidbey Island Races and Anacortes Windermere Regatta. See www.JenniferBowman.com for paintings, profile and complete gallery list.
Alicia Harvey
Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Alicia Harvey moved to the Seattle area in the mid 1990s and was immediately swept up by the art scene swirling around her. She played for years with pottery and watercolor, before transitioning to acrylics and mixed media in 2000.
Her work has appeared in Best of Acrylics: Acrylicworks 8 (published by Golden Peak Media) and 14-Day Portrait Challenge Book (published by Brooklyn Art Library). She recently chaired the Northwest Watercolor Society (NWWS) 82nd Annual International Open Exhibition. She is a current member of NWWS and the Women Painters of Washington..
Chloe Dye Sherpe is the Curatorial Project Manager for The Lumiere Group, an art consulting company that specializes in corporate collections. Chloe manages art acquisitions and works with contemporary, emerging artists all over the world. Recent acquisitions include artworks by John Grade, Ellen Lesperance, Jennifer Zwick, and Gillian Theobald. Prior to joining The Lumiere Group, Chloe was the curator at the Museum of Northwest Art. During her three-year tenure at MoNA, Chloe either curated or coordinated over thirty exhibitions and brought over 150 artists to the museum. Chloe received her MA in Art History from the University of Florida.
Jennifer Bowman
Jennifer Bowman is an award-winning Puget Sound artist who has exhibited professionally for 25 years. Her works appears in private, public, and corporate collections, nationally and internationally, and in various publications: Washington’s Heirloom Birth Certificate, North-light Art books and 48 Degrees North. She has been festival poster artist for Edmonds, Anacortes, Skagit Tulip Festival 2004 and 2020, Whidbey Island Races and Anacortes Windermere Regatta. See www.JenniferBowman.com for paintings, profile and complete gallery list.
Alicia Harvey
Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Alicia Harvey moved to the Seattle area in the mid 1990s and was immediately swept up by the art scene swirling around her. She played for years with pottery and watercolor, before transitioning to acrylics and mixed media in 2000.
Her work has appeared in Best of Acrylics: Acrylicworks 8 (published by Golden Peak Media) and 14-Day Portrait Challenge Book (published by Brooklyn Art Library). She recently chaired the Northwest Watercolor Society (NWWS) 82nd Annual International Open Exhibition. She is a current member of NWWS and the Women Painters of Washington..
Criteria for Jurying
- Original thought and intent
- Overall concept—extending further than just technique and materials
- Demonstrated excellence in craftsmanship
Jury Procedure (the standard Skagit artists jury Procedure)
- For each Skagit Artists juried event, 2-3 jurors will be selected, representing a variety of media and art-related expertise: 2D, 3D, Art Education, Art Gallery, museum, etc.
- The application requirements and jurors’ instructions will be developed by the event committee for each juried show, and will be published to the members in advance of the jury process.
- Each show may have different requirements, such as a theme, a minimum and/or maximum number of artists to be juried in, a minimum and/or maximum number of works of art to be selected, size restrictions, etc. and instruct the jurors accordingly.
- Artists’ names shall be removed from submittals to minimize the possibility of bias by the jurors. Jurors shall decide among themselves how to make the final selection, whether by consensus, voting, a numerical rating system, or other method. The method and rating system shall be confidential and, once the results are published, no record of the rating shall be retained.
- Jurors will be instructed to make a final decision about which artists (or art pieces) are in or out of a given show. Upon completion of the Jury Process, the event chair will notify each applicant whether they were “selected” or “not selected” for participation. A summary of the jurors’ results will be published to members with no names indicated, for example: “34 members applied for the Studio Tour (or other juried show). 28 were juried in.
- The decision of the jurors will be final with no intervention of any kind from the Board of Directors or event committee. If an artist is selected and then withdraws, or withdraws their selected artwork, substitutions will not be allowed.
