Awards Advisors
2011 Visual Awards Advisors:
- Chris Cook, Director & Curator, Salina Art Center (Salina, KS)
- Kris Kuramitsu, Independent curator based in Los Angeles
- Jeremy Mikolajczak, Gallery Director & Curator, University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg, MO)
- Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA)
- Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director, Grand Arts (Kansas City, MO)
Past Visual Awards Advisors:
- Maria Elena Buszek, Art Historian
- Lynne Cooke, Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York
- Russell Ferguson, UCLA Department of Art
- Paul Ha, St. Louis Contemporary
- Bruce Hartman, Director, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
- Sean Kelley, Independent Curator and Art Consultant
- James Martin, Independent Curator and Art Consultant
- Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
- Melissa Rountree, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
- Deborah Emont Scott, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Raechell Smith, H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute
- Mark J. Spencer, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
- Craig Subler, UMKC Art and Art History Department
- Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director, Grand Arts
- Gregory Volk, Independent Critic & Curator and Professor, Virgina Commonwealth University
- Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, Chicago
