2010 Jury

Harry Cooper
Harry Cooper is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. where he has most recently organized The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection and In the Tower: Mark Rothko exhibitions. He was previously the Curator of Modern Art and Lecturer at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; as well as a visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. Cooper earned his Master of Arts in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Harvard University. He as written extensively on collections he has organized for the National Gallery of Art, Yale and Harvard Universities; as well as numerous art criticisms for Artforum.

Robert Haywood
Robert Haywood has been the Deputy Director at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD since 2006. Haywood earned his Masters of Art in Art History and his Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of Michigan. He has taught at numerous institutions including the University of Notre Dame, IN; Hunter College and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in NY; and the College of William and Mary, VA. Prior to this, Haywood was the Executive Director and Curator at Waterworks Visual Arts Center in North Carolina, and a Residential Fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Emily Smith
Emily Smith is the Curatorial Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, VA. Projects at VMFA include the exhibitions, Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Parisand Labor and Leisure: Works by African American Artists in the VMFA Permanent Collections. Smith was Director of Exhibitions at Piedmont Arts in Martinsville, VA from 2004-2007, and the Assistant Director at Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA from 2003-2004. Her exhibitions include Virginia Painters: Philip Geiger and Robert Stuart; and Ted Turner: A Retrospective. She was an adjunct faculty member in art history at Patrick Henry Community College, VA and has been a critic for a Charlottesville weekly paper. Smith received a Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Virginia in 2002.