Prize Jury

Prize Jurors to be announced soon.

Exhibition Jury

Ian Alteveer joined the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in September 2023 as the Beal Family Chair of Contemporary Art, where he leads the department focused on art made after 1955. Until August 2023, he was the inaugural Aaron I. Fleischman Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he curated the recent survey Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid (2023), as well as retrospectives for Kerry James Marshall (2016), Marisa Merz (2017), David Hockney (2017–18), and Vija Celmins (2019–20). At The Met he also co-organized the 2018 exhibition Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy and the 2021 installation Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Alteveer is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He serves on the boards of Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, and the New York-based artist grant-maker Artadia and was a 2020 Fellow at New York’s Center for Curatorial Leadership.

Curator, author, educator, administrator, and public advocate for re-imagining the role of art museums in society, Sandra Jackson-Dumont has served as Director and Chief Executive Officer of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art since January 2020. She oversees all curatorial, educational, public, and operational affairs for the fast-developing institution, including realization of the currently under construction 11-acre campus in Los Angeles, which includes a nearly 300,000-square-foot museum building and an expansive new park. Throughout her roles with some of the country’s most renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and now the Lucas Museum, she has collaborated extensively with living artists, communities, creatives, and historical materials. Her work catalyzes the presence of increasingly dynamic and diverse audiences in cultural spaces while exploring issues of relevance.

Monique Long is a writer and independent curator based in New York City who has worked with artists and exhibitions across the United States. She has developed work with institutions including Portland Museum of Art in Maine, Princeton University Art Museum, and Guild Hall in East Hampton, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco. Long has also contributed to arts publications widely on contemporary art, personal essays, and fashion history. Her most recent exhibitions are currently on view at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and she is working on a book about Philadelphia and contemporary art.

Photo courtesy of Tonje Thilesen

Helen Toomer is a recognized leader in the arts, with decades of experience organizing events, exhibitions and residencies. She is dedicated to uplifting womxn in the arts. Toomer is co-founder of STONELEAF RETREAT, an artists’ residency focused on womxn and families, and co-founder of Art Mamas Alliance, a support group for parents in the arts. She is Artistic Director of PHOTOFAIRS New York, a contemporary art fair dedicated to photography, and founded UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, an annual unifier of more than a hundred organizations in the Catskills and Hudson Valley of New York. Formerly, Toomer was director of Artists in Residence in Everglades, IFPDA Print Fair, Collective Design Fair, and PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs. She also co-founded and managed a contemporary art gallery, toomer labzda, in New York City. Toomer is a passionate speaker on art fairs and professional development, and was an adjunct professor at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She serves on the Advisory Committees for The Dorsky Museum and the Baxter St Camera Club of New York.

Regional Jury

Jamie Adams
Washington University in St. Louis

Golnar Adili
Parsons School of Design

Tamie Beldue
University of North Carolina Asheville

Honor Bowman Hall
Savannah College of Art and Design

Charles Browning
University of the Arts

Melissa Button
Arizona State University

Miguel Carter-Fisher

Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts

Zoë Charlton
George Mason University

Bonnie Collura
Penn State University

Maggie Denk-Leigh
Cleveland Institute of Art

Peter Drake
New York Academy of Art

Fritz Drury
Rhode Island School of Design

Christian Fagerlund
University of North Texas

Andrew Falkowski
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Joe Fig
Ringling College of Art and Design

Arthur Gonzalez
California College of the Arts

David Gothard
Pratt Institute

Robin Hill
University of California, Davis

Cynthia Lin
Purchase College

Libby McFalls
Columbus State University

Margaret Morrison
Lamar Dodd School of Art

David Pagel
Claremont Graduate University

Sara Pedigo
Flagler College

Shawn Powell
Kent State University

Howard Quednau
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Tylonn J. Sawyer
College for Creative Studies

Tony Shore
Maryland Institute College of Art

Leslie Smith III
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maria Teicher

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Caleb Weintraub
Indiana University Bloomington