2024 Art Show Jurors

Judith Thomas joined the Brandywine Workshop and Archives team as Deputy Director in April 2024. She has a long history serving in senior leadership roles at multidiscipline arts organizations. Most recently, Thomas was chief of staff at Philadelphia Contemporary, and prior to that, she served as director of exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). In addition to her background in nonprofit strategic planning, administration and financial management, Thomas has extensive experience in collections, exhibitions and mentorship program management. Projects managed include Making Community: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA, and Paulson Fontaine Press; At One Stroke: Prints by Helen Frankenthaler; and Stone and Metal: Lithographs and Etchings by Norman Lewis. Thomas studied printmaking and painting at PAFA and is a graduate of University College, London University, England.

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Since 2010, William R. Valerio, Ph.D., has served as the Patricia Van Burgh Allison Director and CEO of Woodmere, located in Philadelphia, leading a transformative 14-year revitalization of the institution’s community engagement, collections, financial health and cultural relevance. As the lead visionary behind the museum’s exhibitions, he has deepened the scholarship and celebration of the art and artists of Philadelphia, including major exhibitions like We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s (2015); A Grand Vision: Violet Oakley and the American Renaissance (2017); and Just In: SCHOFIELD Celebrating the Art of Uncle Elmer (2020).

Under his leadership, Woodmere has become a regional cultural fixture, recently expanded through a $28 million capital campaign to acquire and renovate Frances M. Maguire Hall. He has guided major acquisitions—including works by Mary Cassatt, Dox Thrash, Selma Burke and Zoe Strauss—and developed digital platforms such as an interactive map for Woodmere’s Outdoor Wonder (WOW) and the digitization of 2,000 works by Violet Oakley.

Previously, Valerio served on the Executive Team at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he oversaw major capital and strategic initiatives and acted as administrator, securing government funding for arts programs at the federal, state and city levels. Earlier roles include being a curator at the Queens Museum of Art, where he focused on the stewardship of the World’s Fair Industrial Art collection, the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, and contemporary art, best exemplified in the renowned exhibition Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century. He independently organized acclaimed exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Valerio holds a Ph.D. from Yale, an MBA from Wharton, and degrees from Penn and Williams College, and is an American Academy in Rome Fellow. A respected thought leader and community advocate, he cohosts Woodmere’s podcast Diving Board and remains active in Philadelphia’s civic, cultural and education sectors.

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A member of the Barnes faculty, Williamson studied at Yale University and the Milton Avery Graduate School of Bard College. He taught art history and studio art for nearly 30 years at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. Williamson has an active art practice and has shown his paintings locally.

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Chakaia Booker is an internationally renowned and widely collected American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works from recycled tires and stainless steel for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces.  Booker’s works are included in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, Africa and Asia. She was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Recent public installation highlights include Millennium Park, Chicago (2016-2018); Garment District Alliance Broadway Plazas, New York, NY (2014); and National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Avenue Sculpture Project, Washington, DC (2012). Booker’s work was featured in the Selma Burke Invitational African American Art Show.

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Jase Clark is an artist and printmaker based in Philadelphia. He is Master Printer and Partner at Raven Fine Art Editions, with locations in Philadelphia and Easton, Pennsylvania, and an instructor of art at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, where he teaches printmaking and other studio art courses.

Clark works in a variety of media, including printmaking—utilizing both traditional and experimental techniques—painting, sculpture and video. His work, which both explores and documents time, and offers a response to both the physical world and the interior landscape of the mind, has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the LaGrange Art Museum, Georgia; the Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania; the Sophia Wanamaker Galleries, San José, Costa Rica; and Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Ningxia, China. His work is included in permanent collections around the world, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the University of Delaware, Kent State University, and Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

From 2005 to 2021, Clark served as Master Printer and Manager of the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College. He has collaborated and produced editions with world-renowned artists including Radcliffe Bailey, Chakaia Booker, David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Richard Mayhew, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar and William T. Williams. Clark received a BFA from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania, and an MFA from William Paterson University, New Jersey.

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