2007 Judges


	2007 JUDGES

	Mark H.C. Bessire Sharon Corwin Susan Dowling June LaCombe Susan Lerner Mark H.C. Bessire Mark Bessire is the Director of the Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine. E-MAIL: mbessire@bates.edu PHONE: (207) 772-9277 Sharon Corwin Sharon Corwin is the Carolyn Muzzy Director and the Chief Curator for the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. She has curated numerous exhibitions including “Exhibiting Signs of Age,” “Terry Winters: Prints & Sequences,” and “The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture: 60 Years.” She has als5600o served as a juror for many public art projects around the state of Maine. E-MAIL: scorwin@colby.edu PHONE: (207) 859-5603 Colby College Museum of Art Mayflower Hill Drive Waterville, ME 04901 Back to top Susan Dowling Susan Dowling has been a producer of arts programming for public television since l979. At WGBH (public TV in Boston) she was Executive Producer and Director of the New Television Workshop, the experimental wing of the station that produced historically important video art and video dance programs. Dowling was Executive Producer of the series “New Television” that produced over 125 programs by artists and independent filmmakers from around the world; and Dowling Co-Directed with David Ross The Contemporary Art Television Fund (The CAT Fund) - a collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston) and the WGBH New TV Workshop. After leaving WGBH, Dowling co-created and co-executive produced with Susan Sollins the national, PBS prime-time series “Art21: Art in the 21st Century.” Dowling is currently on the Board of Art21 and an on-going consultant to the series and its ancillary activities. To learn more about the series and its vast educational and outreach activities go to www.pbs.org/art2. She also serves as an advisor to several non-profit organizations and the Maine Arts Commission. Back to top June LaCombe June LaCombe is an arts consultant specializing in sculpture in the New England region. She selects and sites exhibitions in various public and private gardens in Maine and develops themes relating art and nature. Places have included botanical gardens, corporate headquarters, environmental studies centers, private estates, college campuses as well as numerous galleries including the Blum Gallery, The Barn Gallery, Turtle Gallery, and Caldbeck Gallery. Show titles include: Sculpture for this Animate Earth, The Heart of Matter, Touchstones- Sculpture Participating with Place and Coming to our Senses. This year’s exhibitions are: Where Nature and Culture Meet- Art and the Garden at Maine Audubon’s sanctuary in Falmouth and at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay Harbor. E-MAIL: jlacombe@maine.rr.com PHONE: (207) 688-4468 June LaCombe Hawk Ridge 90 Minot Road Pownal, ME 04069 Back to top Susan Lerner Susan Lerner taught for many years at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, where she was also the director/curator of the Ethel H. Blum Gallery. A lifelong explorer in the arts, she creates eco-art installations, painting and prints. E-MAIL: slerner2@verizon.net Back to top