24th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition (2010-2011)

April 18, 2010 - March 1, 2011

Juror: Jerry Jackson

Curator: Hank T. Foreman

Assistant Curator: Brook Bower

24th Rosen Sculpture Site Map (PDF 2.6M)

About the Juror

Jerry Jackson
Deputy Director
Penland School of Crafts

Jerry Jackson has served as the deputy director for Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC since July 2007. Prior to his tenure at Penland, Jerry was the chief curator and director of the Rocky Mount Arts Center at the Imperial Centre for Arts and Sciences, Rocky Mount, NC. He brings extensive expertise in exhibition, collection and archive practices to the position. Historical preservation was also a key component of his previous experience. The Imperial Centre development was a 6-year rehabilitation project that included a complex of historical structures that ultimately became a 145,000sf facility. Jackson currently serves on the boards of the Mitchell County United Way and the Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce. Past board appointments include Pocosin Arts, the North Carolina Museum Council, Eastern North Carolina Visual Arts Consortium, Very Special Arts and the Professional Arts Councils of Eastern North Carolina. Jerry received his MFA and BFA from East Carolina University in studio art.

Jackson holds M.F.A. (2006) and B.F.A (1983) degrees in ceramics from East Carolina University, and A.A. (1980) degree from Wingate University. He has spent the majority of his arts career as a curator and arts administrator. Jerry has been in the position of Deputy Director at Penland School of Crafts since July 2007. Prior to relocating to Penland, he served 11 years as curator and cultural arts administrator (director) at the Rocky Mount Arts Center.

Jackson has curated dozens for exhibitions during the past 12 years and has served as juror for numerous exhibitions throughout the southeast. He has served on the board of Pocosin Arts, the North Carolina Museum Council, Eastern North Carolina Visual Arts Consortium, Very Special Arts and the Professional Arts Councils of Eastern North Carolina. In 2007, he was awarded the Mid-Career Arts Administrator Award from the North Carolina Museum Council. Currently, he serves as the Travel and Tourism Chair for the Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce and is a board member for Mitchell County United Way.

About the Curator

Hank Foreman serves as Assistant Vice Chancellor of Arts and Cultural Affairs as well as Director and Chief Curator of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts for Appalachian State University. He obtained his M.A. in Art Education from Appalachian, having completed undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with a concentration in Painting and Sculpture. His duties include the administrative responsibilities for An Appalachian Summer Festival, the Performing Arts Series, Farthing Auditorium and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.

During his tenure at Appalachian State, Foreman has taken part in the organization of numerous exhibitions, including the associated lectures, symposia, and publications. He has worked closely with the university's Department of Art, and a wide variety of other campus and community groups, to make gallery resources available to all. One of his earliest exhibitions at Appalachian, Views From Ground Level: Art and Ecology in the Late Nineties, brought internationally acclaimed artists, historians, and critics to the campus and received national attention.

Foreman is also an exhibiting studio artist, and participates in regional and national conferences as a presenter and panelist.

About the Assistant Curator

Brook Bower serves as the Assistant Curator for the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (TCVA) located at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Bower's professional activities include curating exhibitions, lecturing, consulting on competition management, serving as a juror for local competitions, mentoring future art management students and managing several national art competitions including the Rosen Sculpture Competition, the Halpert Biennial and the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition. Bower also serves as the Acting Registrar, providing collections management support for the TCVA's Permanent Collection containing 1,072+ objects and managing the Intra-Campus Loan Program.

Bower received a BS in Art Management and a BFA in Ceramics from Appalachian's Department of Art in 2001. Following her undergraduate degrees, she has concentrated on furthering her education by attending conferences, courses and workshops expanding her knowledge of curatorship, exhibition design, and collections management. Bower also designs and leads museum training workshops. She serves on multiple committees that concentrate on community enhancement utilizing the visual arts. These committees include the Looking Glass Gallery Committee, the Downtown Boone Development Association's Public Art Committee, the AppalCART's Federal Transit Authority (FTA) Grant Committee and the Robert F. Gilley Recording Studio Gallery Committee. Additionally, Bower serves as the faculty advisor for the Arts Management Organization (AMO).

In addition, Bower is an active exhibiting artist. Her primary media concentration is sculptural ceramics, however, she also delves into other media including collage and photography. She incorporates theses media along with alternative techniques to create her unique style. Her most recent body of work entitled Vessels of Consequence, explored parallelism of the physical constraints of the human and ceramic vessels through a combination of ceramics and collage. Currently, she is documenting and investigating land and culture loss in Southeastern Louisiana in conjunction with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) located in Cocodrie, LA.

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