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here for the 2009 Artist's Application "Exhibiting at The Melbourne Art Festival is about as close to winning the lottery as many artists and craftspeople will get. With $112,000 in patron purchase awards and another $25,050 in prizes walking around, there's lots of cash out there and most folks get a piece. The committee manages competently, but with always a sense of fun in everything they do. You don't need to choose between good treatment and good sales. Here you get both."............Sunshine Artist Magazine |
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2009 Melbourne Art Festival Judges |
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| Judge Sang Parkinson Roberson |
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Sang Parkinson Roberson, a studio artist, lives and works in Ormond Beach, FL, and Taos, NM. Roberson’s sculptural clay forms are exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally and in juried exhibitions such as the Smithsonian Craft Show and the Philadelphia Museum Craft Show. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship as well as a Visual Artist Grant from the Florida Dept. of State. Her teaching experience includes, among others, the Penland School in Penland, N.C. and La Universidad Nacional in Bogota, Colombia. She has served on jury panels for the Division of Cultural Affairs in Florida and Arkansas and for national exhibitions including the American Craft Council shows. Her artwork is in many public and
private collections and her clay boxes are featured in several books. Sang Roberson began her career in Florida outdoor art festivals, and she is delighted to be selected as one of the judges for the 25th Annual Melbourne Art Festival.
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Judge Amy Vigilante |
Judge Richard vom Saal | |
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In the early 1990’s, Amy worked at the then Brevard Art Center and Museum as Curator of Exhibitions and Collections. She also has worked for the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Resources Commission of Tallahassee and Leon County, and as a grant writer for the Marion County Public School System in Ocala. Vigilante continues to make and show artwork, and is currently working with fabrics and found objects in creating art quilts. She has judged close to 100 exhibitions throughout Florida and Georgia. |
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Amy Vigilante has been Director of the University Galleries at the University of Florida in Gainesville for the past seven years. She also oversees the Art in State Buildings program for UF. She also held a similar position with the City of Gainesville for seven years. A New York native, Vigilante attended graduate school at Florida State University where she earned her M.F.A. in Painting, Education Specialist degree in Administration and Supervision, and Ph.D. in Art Education. She taught art at elementary through college levels, and is involved in arts administration in many capacities.
Richard vom Saal has a wide range of expertise across a spectrum of art media and techniques including sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking, drawing, and design. His 32 years of teaching have embraced these specialties as well as art history and appreciation. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Florida and M.F.A. from Syracuse University. He taught sculpture at Syracuse University and drawing, printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture at the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse. Since returning to Florida in 1981 he has taught photography, ceramics, and art appreciation at Broward College in Coconut Creek, Florida. He has exhibited work in numerous national shows and has work in public and private collections. Richard has juried many art shows and festivals. “ As a judge I look for work that grabs my attention and renders an appropriateness of medium and craft to the idea and is above all original”.