Jury Information

Hidden River Art Festival: September 18–20, 2009

Santiago Cucullu's work has recently been shown in the solo and group exhibits The Fates Await, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Hammer Project, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Project 1, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Statements, Art Basel, Miami; and How Latitudes Become Forms, at the Walker Art Center and other national and international venues. Cucullu lives and works in Milwaukee.

Yevgeniya Kaganovich is a visual artist interested in the objects ability to communicate ideas through their implied use. Her work addresses the complexities of inner-personal and social interactions conditioned by the corporal body. Yevgeniya has been an active art practitioner since 1992, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally in competitive exhibitions, such as “International Graduation Show: London, Maastricht, New Paltz,” Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, “Talente,” Munich International Trades Fair in Munich, Germany, and “Corporeal Identity–Body Language, 9th Triennial for Form and Content” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. Yevgeniya’s work has received a number of awards and has been published widely. Her resent projects include “Equilibrium” at Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso, Texas, “Out of the Shell” at Gallery Loupe in Montclair, New Jersey, “Exhibition in Print 2008”, Metalsmith Magazine, “West East Dialogues: The Great Silk Way” at Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, and at the Museum of Jeweler Art in, Ekaterinburg, Russia, “Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century” at Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio, and “Body Politic” at Richmond Center for Visual Art of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Prior to her appointment at UWM, Yevgeniya worked as Designer/Goldsmith at Peggie Robinson Designs, Studio of Handcrafted Jewelry in Evanston, Illinois and taught Metalsmithing at Chicago State University and Lill Street Studios in Chicago, Illinois.

Karin Wolf has experience in arts project management, research, writing, and educational programs. She is the Arts Program Administrator for the City of Madison Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development and the Madison Arts Commission. She manages the City's arts grants, runs the gallery space, handles new public art projects, and is working with the a consultant to create the City’s first cultural arts plan. Previously, she served as the Special Programs Coordinator in the Community Outreach Department at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, where she created award-winning programs for educators and K-16 students in art, design and technology. She has worked as an educational assistant at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, teaching, docenting, and assisting the Curator of Education. She has a M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and undergraduate degrees in History, History of Cultures, and Afro-American History. She is a long time supporter of the arts and arts education, and is involved with many community organizations in establishing exhibitions, film programs, temporary art, and permanent public sculpture projects.

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