Contemporary: Great Rivers

Summer is fast approaching and bringing with it some great local artist opportunities. The deadline to apply for the Great Rivers Biennial exhibition/grant is just over a month away, and I am really excited. St. Louis has a lot of talent, and I can hardly wait for the submissions to start coming in! To keep Great Rivers impartial and prestigious, the Contemporary has arranged for three exceptional museum professionals to serve as our jurors. Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Cheryl Brutvan, and Lilian Tone are all experts in contemporary art. So, for all you artists working diligently to put together your submissions (or for anyone who wants to read a little about three incredible women working in the art world) here's the low down on our three jurors.

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson is the Director and Chief Curator of the Aspen Art Museum and has also held positions at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and The Jewish Museum, in New York. She has curated well over forty solo exhibitions of international contemporary artists and has also taught at UC Berkeley, CUNY Hunter College, and CCA.

Cheryl Brutvan is the Beal Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and has also held positions at the Albright-Knox Gallery and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In addition, Brutvan initiated a series called RSVP:mfa which acknowledges that art can extend beyond traditional gallery spaces and supports the creation of such work.

Lilian Tone is the Assistant Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was also very involved with coordinating educational programming for the Sao Paulo Bienal for multiple years and worked at the Museu Rodin Bahia, and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil. (Rachel)