SLAF Program Guide 2022

Faith Berger, Saint Louis, MO Josè Garza, Saint Louis, MO Erica Iman, Kansas City, MO Booth #405 Rob Matthews Des Moines, IA Booth #406 Diana Moxon, Columbia , MO The Jury Process The jury is composed of a distinguished panel of professional art experts with diverse backgrounds. A total of five jurors and the Executive Director of Cultural Festivals comprise the panel that selects the show’s participants from those submitting entries. We thank this year’s panel for their tireless work and dedication to the integrity of the show. 2022 Jurors Faith Berger is a St Louis based artist working and living in St Louis Missouri. Extrapolating from 30 years’ experience as a gallerist and deft at art planning, painting is natural transition from all she’s learaned from the hundreds of artists she has represented. Each talented in their own right, Faith’s intense study in design, art glass, sculpture, painting, and theory behind art imbues her desire to create. José Guadalupe Garza was born along the US/ Mexico border. He is an artist and educator working in traditional and new media. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. Garza earned a BFA in Drawing from the University of Florida and an MFA in Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis where he currently serves as the Museum Academic Programs Coordinator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. 2022 Peer Jurors Erica received her BFA in Ceramics and BSE in Art from the University of Missouri Columbia in 2005 and obtained her MFA in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2012. Between earning her degrees she served 2 years in the U.S. Peace Corps. Erica is currently a studio artist in Kansas City, MO is a founding member of the KC Urban Potters, and an Artist Inc. facilitator. Rob left college while studying Architecture to focus on his stained-glass studio and began a lifetime of a career in Art. While in Santa Fe, he had his first gallery showing, and shortly after opened a Gallery with a partner with the successful intent of turning it into a co-op gallery owned and run by working Artists. Rob’s work is a combination of concrete and glass and for the past several years has been doing strictly wall pieces. Diana Moxon is the host and producer of a weekly in-depth arts radio show, Speaking of the Arts. Her entry into the arts started in 2007 when, new to Columbia, she took over the reins of the Columbia Art League and spent 11 years as its Executive Director, curating the gallery’s shows, being the Fundraiser in Chief, and organizing the annual Art in the Park festival, which welcomed 110 artists from across the country each June. 2022 JURORS 36