2024 Art Show Jurors

Corrinne Chong is an art historian, curator, and educator from Toronto, Canada. Until recently, she served as Assistant Curator at the Barnes Foundation, where she supported exhibitions such as "Modigliani: Up Close" (2021-22) and "Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris" (2022-23) and taught courses including Hearing Painting, Seeing Music and The Symbolist Realm: Music, Art & Poetry. Previously, she worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, where she developed the exhibitions  “Delacroix and Faust: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (2020) and “Early Rubens” (2019).  Corrinne holds degrees in art history and education from the University of Toronto and a doctorate in art history from the University of Edinburgh, where she also pursued Word & Music Studies.

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Curlee Raven Holton is a printmaker and painter whose work has been exhibited in more than 50 one-person shows, and 100 group shows. His exhibitions have included prestigious national and international venues like Egypt’s 7th International Biennale, Taller de Artes Plásticas Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca, Mexico, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Holton’s work is in many private and public collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Allentown Art Museum, the Discovery Museum of Art and Science in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the West Virginia Governor’s Mansion, the Foundation of Culture Rodolfo Morales in Oaxaca, Mexico, Yale University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Cornell University Rare Books Collection, The Library of Congress, Boise Art Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, U.S. Embassy, Costa Rica, Federal Reserve of Washington, DC., and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Holton’s work has been featured and written about in more than 50 publications. As part of his research and study as an artist-scholar, he has lectured and presented demonstrations throughout the United States, and abroad in Mexico, the West Indies, Japan, England, and Costa Rica. Holton has been an artist in residence at museums, colleges, and universities. He has presented over 100 public lectures on the subjects of his own work, African American art, and contemporary printmaking. He has written numerous articles and essays on art and artists that have been published in catalogs and journals.

Many of Holton’s artworks have been published in magazines and newspapers and documented on television. He has received awards and grants for his creative research and artwork, which has been described as both powerful and graceful. The breadth of his visual investigations has included traditional and innovative approaches to his art-making process. Holton’s mastery is demonstrated in his manipulation of diverse mediums and techniques including printmaking, drawing, painting, and bookmaking.

Holton earned his M.F.A. with honors from Kent State University and his B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Fine Arts in Drawing and Printmaking. Beginning in 1991, he taught Printmaking and African American Art History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he also founded the Experimental Printmaking Institute in 1996. In 2006, he established Raven Fine Arts Editions. In 2012, Holton was named the David M. and Linda Roth Professor of Art at Lafayette College. His awards include the Anyone Can Fly Lifetime Achievement Foundation Award, 2015; Honorary Doctorate from the Institute Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, 2017; Linny Artist of the Year Award, Bethlemen, PA, 2018. He retired as the David M. and Linda Roth Professor Emeritus of Art from Lafayette in 2017 and recently retired as the director of the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland.

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William Perthes is the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, where he oversees adult classes including the Barnes–de Mazia Certificate Program, a rigorous track of courses that offers an immersion in the Barnes Method. Bill is the author of “The Barnes Method,” included in the recently published book “The Barnes: Then and Now.” At the Barnes, Bill teaches courses on Methodology, the Traditions of Art, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, American Arts, and Modernism. He is an art historian whose scholarship focuses on American Modernism with a special concentration on the Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. He is the former Director of Education for the Violette de Mazia Foundation. In 2021, Bill received the G. John DiGregorio, MD, PhD Award for Distinguished Teaching by Adjunct Faculty from Drexel University.

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Linda Brenner often exhibits her work in shows and is represented in many collections. She has been a recipient of a Leeway Foundation WOO Award and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts SOS Stipend, in addition to two residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Arts in Georgia. She has been teaching sculpture and drawing classes and has been a critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 1988 and was Chairman of the sculpture department from 1992 –1995. Linda just retired from teaching in May of 2012, receiving the Dean’s Award for service.  

Some of her recent work has been exhibited at Philadelphia International Airport, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Pentimenti Gallery and at the Annenberg School for Communications (UPenn).

Linda has been involved in numerous projects and commissions, often in collaboration with others creating architectural models for museum exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, PMA, MOCA and the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania, which continue to travel internationally. These projects include models for the Louis I. Kahn retrospective, Venturi, Scott-Brown retrospective and Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site. The Kahn models recently toured internationally in an exhibition sponsored by the Vitra Design Company. The models were also included in the exhibition “Loius Kahn: The Power of Architecture” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.

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Jennifer Zwilling is the Curator and Director of Artistic Programs at the Clay Studio. She joined The Clay Studio in 2015 and administers the Resident Artist Program, Exhibitions, The Collection, and the Guest Artist in Residence Program. She earned her B.A. in History from Ursinus College and M.A, in Art History from Temple University, Tyler School of Art. Previously, she was Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts and Contemporary Craft at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Jennifer developed and taught History of Modern Craft at Tyler School of Art for ten years, and has taught and lectured around the world. She represents The Clay Studio as a founding Board Member of CraftNOW Philadelphia.