2009 Rosen Juror:

Daniel E. Stetson

Executive Director; Polk Museum of Art; Lakeland, Florida,

Daniel E. Stetson, the Executive Director at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida, will serve as juror for the 23rd Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition.

Since 1996, Daniel E. Stetson has serves as the Executive Director of the Polk Museum of Art since has over twenty-nine years of museum directorial and curatorial experience. Stetson has curated numerous exhibitions and organized major sculpture projects throughout his career, which include the Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition, now entering its 9th year and the Lakeland Invitational, entering its 2nd year.

Stetson has been a grants review panel member nationally including as an I.M.L.S. General Operating Support Grant reviewer and LOG program, Florida Arts Council Visual Arts Organization Grants and Art Fellowship panelist and for the Texas Commission on the Arts as panel chair, and a reviewer for the Iowa Arts Council. He also has serves as an American Association of Museums Accreditation site visit team member. In addition, Stetson also serves as Vice President of the Florida Association of Museums (FAM) and Vice President of the Florida Art Museum Directors Association (FAMDA). He also serves on the steering committee for Polk Vision and Lakeland Vision and has served as President of the Cultural Arts Board and on the Board of Director's executive committee of the Polk Arts Alliance.

Steston holds an M.F.A. in Museology from Syracuse University, a B.A. in Art History from State University of New York, SUNY Potsdam and is in an inaugural class graduate of the MyRegion.org Leadership Program, Leadership Lakeland graduate and is a graduate of the inaugural class of Polk Leadership.