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2020 Jurors

Aaron Rio

Aaron Rio is Associate Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A specialist of medieval and early modern Japanese painting, he earned his BA from Indiana University and his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Columbia University.

Alexander Zastera

Alexander Zastera is an artist, activist, and educator based in Miami Beach, Florida. Their work centers around performance, immersive installation, and public education that is largely focused on environmental issues. Currently Zastera galavants masked in the guise of “Climate Crusader,” a South Florida–based environmental superhero, building climate resilience and awareness through posting videos, holding public performances, and inspiring community action to save the planet. Their work has been featured at Deep Space & Gallery, Locust Projects, PAMM, MOCA Nomi, and Superfine! Art Fair: NYC.

Aurora Molina

Aurora Molina was born in La Havana, Cuba, in 1984. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 16, where she opted to pursue an education in art. Molina received her associate’s degree in visual arts from Miami Dade College, a bachelor’s degree in fine arts specializing in mixed media from Florida International University, and a master’s degree in contemporary art at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, completed in 2009. She currently resides in Miami, Florida, where she works as a full-time artist. Molina is exclusively represented by Bernice Steinbaum.

Carl Moore

Carl Moore currently lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee, as an artist and designer.
He considers his work to be a form of visual communication, using simplicity and depth to express social and ethical issues. His goal is to create a conversation between both the personal and public by using color and composition to express moods, situations, and ideas. Placing people and objects in common and uncommon situations allows him to deal with specific subjects from various perspectives.
His work over the past 10 years has dealt with identity and color. During this process his goal was to compare social ideologies about race and stereotypes to everyday colors and the perception of these colors in our environment.

Josh Siegel

Josh Siegel is a multifaceted artist whose work mixes pop culture, queer community, and modern art. His popular modHERO series explores the space between digital illustration, popular superheroes, and decorative painting. Found in thousands of nerd caves, modHERO portraits have also hung at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the UN! Josh was a weekly art contributor to the Line It Is Drawn on comicbookresources.com and has published comics in several anthologies including COSMIC LOVE, Mine!, Sentinels Anthology Volume 2, and Power.
A queer activist and organizer, Josh is co-creator of Flame Con, the world’s largest queer comic convention, where he has served as curator, creative lead, and program director. Recently, he cowrote and served as art director of Serving Pride, a book that guides participants through an illustrated retelling of queer civil rights via a fun, inclusive dinner party! He lives in Los Angeles with his husband and is working on lots of things.

Ron Garrett

Ron Garrett, artist, printmaker, and educator, has exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows over his 30-year art career—including a visiting artist sojourn to Bangalore, India, where he curated a touring international exhibition of American printmakers. He has an MFA in printmaking from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, and a BFA from Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina. He also studied drawing and painting at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.

For the past 2 decades he has taught art at private schools in southern Florida. Garrett also conducts workshops at local museums and community events. He is a regular juror and guest speaker at several art events, and he has recently focused his work on national parks and threatened ecosystems along our coastal communities. He is also the founder of RAGA Press, a boutique fine art printmaking atelier in Boca Raton, Florida. Its mission is to be an advocate for traditional printmaking processes and limited-edition, hand-pulled works of art.

Rose Jaffe

Rose Jaffe is a visual artist with mediums spanning mural painting, ceramics, printmaking, and digital illustration. Born and raised in the nation’s capital, Rose loves calling Washington, DC, home. She earned her BFA at the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan and has pursued an art career full time after teaching middle and high school art in the city. She has painted more than 30 murals nationally and internationally, including more than 20 in DC. Her art has been featured in more than 12 publications, including the Washington Post and City Paper as well as NBC, CNN, and Channel 9. The themes of her work include political activism, social justice, natural healing, and spiritual grounding. Her work is vibrant, colorful, and often playful. She is dedicated to the work of harnessing the power of art to find connections, build community, spark conversation, and create social change.

Todd Shipley

Todd Shipley is the Coordinator of Fine Arts for the Tennessee Department of Education. In this role, he is the state-level contact for art educators and school and district administrators for fine arts, including support and guidance for standards, curriculum development, licensure, evaluation, and more. He is also the program director for State of the Arts, a public–private partnership with the CMA Foundation, with the goal of increasing access to high-quality, sequential, standards-based fine arts instruction for all K-12 students in Tennessee.

Previously, Shipley served as a music teacher for Metro Nashville Public Schools and Rutherford County Schools in the state. He remains active as an ex officio member of the Tennessee Music Education Association and Tennessee Art Education Association executive boards, in addition to maintaining memberships with several national arts organizations. Shipley holds membership in and serves as the elected southern division representative for the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education.