More About the Jurors

The exhibition includes 71 accepted paintings, selected from a pool of over 1,000 International digital entries by a panel of three jurors:

• Judi Betts, NWS, AWS
• David Poxon, NWS, RI
• Soon Y. Warren, NWS, AWS, TWSA

Awards were juried in person by Peter Frank.

(from Wikipedia) Peter Frank (born 1950, New York) is an American art critic, curator, and poet who lives and works in Los Angeles. He was the Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum and an art critic for Angeleno magazine. He is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post. Until July 9, 2008, he was a long-time critic for LA Weekly. He was a past editor of Visions Art Quarterly and was an art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News in New York.

Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has written many monographs and catalogs for one person and group exhibitions. He has organized many theme and survey shows for placement at institutions throughout the world. He has taught at colleges and universities and he has lectured all over North America and Europe. Frank received his B.A. and M.A. in art history from Columbia University.