UPCOMING CWOS EXHIBITIONS:

Thursday, September 16:
CWOS Festival Exhibition on view at Artspace through October 23rd

ABOUT THE JURORS:

Patricia Hickson is the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum. There, she oversees the contemporary art collection, organizes special exhibitions, and leads the MATRIX program, a series of changing contemporary art exhibitions.  She has curated exhibitions with Robyn O’Neil, Alec Soth, Michael McMillen, Patricia Piccinini, Enrique Chagoya, and Carmen Lomas Garza, among others.  Ms. Hickson has previously held curatorial positions at the Des Moines Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.  She earned a BA in art from Bates College and a MA in art history from Williams College.

Since joining Real Art Ways in 2005, Kristina Newman-Scott has organized and curated 46 solo exhibitions, three major group shows, four open calls for emerging artists and four public art projects.  Ms. Newman-Scott has also coordinated the publication of 30 artist brochures and the exhibition catalogues for Faith, POZA, 50,000 Beds, Real Public: the web catalogue for Shadow Show, and a series of e-magazines associated with Rockstone & Bootheel. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Ms. Newman-Scott is a practicing artist.  She has organized and exhibited widely in Jamaica, including at the National Biennial Exhibition at the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Mutual Gallery, and Grosvenor Gallery.  She received her BFA in painting and installation art from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston.