JURORS

An international panel of jurors includes Patricia Carter, Eric Gansworth, and Lupe Rodriguez, three artists from the United States and Canada.

Patricia Carter is a painter, printmaker, and teacher whose imagery draws on experiences of African-American women living in the southern United States during the 1940s, as well as current issues in feminism and identity. As an adjunct professor she taught in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning at Arizona State University. Carter’s artwork has been exhibited across the United States and in Jamaica and Canada.

Eric Gansworth is an enrolled member of the Onondaga Tribe who was born and raised on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in Western New York. He is a writer, painter, photographer, and Associate Professor of English at Canisius College. His work is a commentary on the oral tradition and iconography of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, culture at the same time that it reflects contemporary life. Gansworth’s book of poetry and paintings, Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon, was presented as a touring solo exhibition in Olean and Niagara Falls, New York.

Lupe Rodriguez, who was born in Spain and raised in Toronto, is a painter, printmaker, and educator whose work draws on her Spanish heritage and her travels abroad. Her most recent series of works combined with a special education project, Pathways of Our Past: Mapping Our Community, toured throughout the province of Ontario.