Members’ Show
November 9 — December 16, 2023
The annual Members’ Show features artwork created by the talented artists in the JAC community and beyond.
Best-in-Show and Honorable Mentions were awarded during the Opening Reception by this year’s judge Toby Sisson.
Members’ Show Results 2023
BEST-IN-SHOW
Josy Wright. Fog Lifting, 2023. Etching
SECOND PLACE
Victor Aguirre Williams, Prosperity, 2022. Oil on canvas
THIRD PLACE
Christopher Terry, Atemporal Objects, 2023. Oil on canvas
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Kate Barber, textiles
Jon Baylor, ceramics
Margit Burmeister, collage/assemblage
Barbara Crane, photography
Carol Mania, basketry
Megan Orlando, painting
ARTWORK PICK-UP:
December 18, 11 am—3 pm
Exhibition Dates: November 9—December 16, 2023
Toby Sisson, 2023 JAC Members' Show Judge: Sisson is Director of the Studio Art Program in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Sisson was awarded the Edward Hodgkins Junior Faculty of the Year Prize in 2011 for meritorious contributions in creative practice, teaching and service. Sisson has been nominated three times for an Outstanding Teacher of the Year award by Clark University students (2014, 2019 and 2020).
She was granted tenure in 2015 and received the Hayden Faculty Fellowship for deep and sustained engagement with the Clark community.
Sisson has served on the Board of Directors for ArtsWorcester, and the Collections Executive Committee for the Worcester Art Museum. She is a member of the Dark Room, a race and visual studies collaborative research cluster, and a fellowship recipient at Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Sisson has exhibited her paintings, drawings and prints internationally, including the Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China; The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey; the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts and the JAC several times. Her work is in numerous public and private collections; among them, Brown University's David Winton Bell Gallery, and the Worcester Art Museum.
Her piece Hindsight was included in the 2023 summer exhibition Book as Muse at the Jamestown Arts Center.